Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] been [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past three months I 've been trying to buy some SIMMS for my Mesh 386SX . |
| 2 | This is simply an overspilling of sexual activity under conditions of extreme frustration , and the animals which have been seen to perform in this way have also been observed to copulate normally afterwards , if mates are provided . |
| 3 | I am inviting you to consider some of the steps which have been developed to promote the level and quantity of language skills which are needed to sustain and develop the social infrastructure in relation to the public services in a multi-lingual Britain . |
| 4 | If neither of these provisions applies , the affidavit must be sworn by a person having direct personal knowledge of the means adopted for service , and must specify the steps which have been taken to serve the demand , the means whereby ( those steps having been ineffective ) it was sought to bring the demand to the debtor 's attention , and the date by which , to the best of the knowledge of the person making the affidavit , the demand would have come to the debtor 's attention . |
| 5 | Attempts by Latin American Communists to implement the ultra-leftism and isolationism of the ’ Third period' ( tactics which had been formulated to respond to the very different political conditions prevailing in Europe ) resulted in considerable loss of support and influence for many of these parties . |
| 6 | Equally , the various regional organizations which have been created do not exclude the vigorous pursuit of national interests . |
| 7 | One segment showed a whale-like troop carrier descending towards the world below , carrying one of the regiments of Imperial Guards which had been ordered to attend this conflict , years since in realtime . |
| 8 | Meanwhile the Front populaire ivoirien ( FPI ) , now emerging as the strongest of the 26 parties which had been allowed to register since May , elected its general secretary , Laurent Gbagbo , to stand against Houphouët-Boigny in the presidential elections ; he was the first opposition presidential candidate since independence in 1960 . |
| 9 | There are certain areas of retailing and certain up-market shops which have been known to multiply their cost by five or six times . |
| 10 | ‘ The vestments which have been made adds immeasurably to the praise of God . |
| 11 | Within four years of the passing of the Education Act , the few schools which had been established closed their doors , with the single exception of Rugby . |
| 12 | Once language is described as a category of behaviour , it is possible to explain its occurrence with reference to the contingent relationships which have been shown to influence other kinds of behaviour . |
| 13 | Also on the floor were three or four framed pictures which had been trampled stamped upon , so that the frames were broken and the glass shattered to fragments . |
| 14 | Among the " quick fix " solutions which have been proposed to counter global warming are : placing thousand of large mirrors in space to reflect sunlight ; making aircraft engines less efficient so that soot builds up in the stratosphere , with similar effect ; dumping iron filings into the oceans to stimulate the growth of plankton , which absorbs carbon dioxide ; using lasers to break up chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere ; and firing a million tons of dust into the upper atmosphere , also with a view to reflecting solar radiation . |
| 15 | Potential and actual savings which have been identified include : shorter lead times , presently as long as six months ; producing better , more up-to date styles ; and shoes that fit better . |
| 16 | Since the Williams Report , the only books which have been prosecuted have either glorified illegal activities , such as the taking of dangerous drugs , or have been hard-core pornography lacking any literary pretension or sociological interest . |
| 17 | I 'm sorry , ’ he repeated , and the smile he gave her was so gentle that the angry words she had been going to utter died , locked somewhere in her throat . |
| 18 | If their bodies had not been quite crushed to death by the labours they had been forced to perform for their Egyptian taskmasters , then surely their spirits had been . |
| 19 | Sources in the US say Data General will this week take the wrapping off the eight-way AViiON multi-processors it has been dropping hints about for some time ( UX No 389 ) . |
| 20 | They were the words he had been wanting to hear and with an exultant roar , and with both arms at once around her , he pulled her close up to him . |
| 21 | Here was a man easily ridiculed because of the words he has been forced to eat . |
| 22 | In his own wallpaper designs he had been determined to avoid anything that commanded attention the moment a person entered a room . |
| 23 | While waiting around for five months he had been planning to do a story on a particular platoon of sixteen guys , which was very promising at first and the men enthusiastic and helpful . |
| 24 | The clients themselves have been known to become dealers . |
| 25 | There are also a number of tasks and activities which have been developed to illustrate the family dynamic — these include family choreography , role-playing , role-reversal , family drawing , charting , listing , and perhaps most well-known , family sculpting . |
| 26 | We will shortly examine the policies which have been adopted to restrict the degree of monopoly power exercised by large firms . |
| 27 | The following chapter considers the various policies which have been proposed to deal with regional imbalances and is then followed by a study of inner cities . |
| 28 | One interpretation of mental breakdown is that it is an attempt by a disturbed mind to create a breathing space for reassessment and balance ; for conflicts which have been suppressed to emerge and be dealt with . |
| 29 | Alternatively , use co-ordinated patterns which have been designed to blend together . |
| 30 | A new department in the Ministry of Culture was set up last year which has imposed a ceiling of DFl. 3 million ( £937,500 ; $1,640,625 ) in subsidies and has ruled that galleries which have been selected to sell under the scheme will have to submit a yearly programme of exhibitions to the Arts Council who in turn will decide which of those exhibitions are eligible for the interest-subsidy scheme . |