Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps motivated by such heady topics , the Scottish Survivors have not been taking matters that light-heartedly . |
| 2 | Directors have sometimes been called trustees , or commercial trustees , sometimes they have been called managing partners ; it does not matter much what you call them as long as you understand what their true position is , which is really that they are commercial men managing a trading concern for the benefit of themselves and all the other shareholders … they are bound to use fair and reasonable diligence in the management of the company 's affairs and to act honestly . |
| 3 | The heatwave which stole Ivano 's snowfields has also been wreaking rockfall havoc around the massif , with many normally safe routes becoming places to tread warily . |
| 4 | In the 1950s , attention was directed to the fact that manual workers had increasingly been earning wages directly comparable to those of white-collar and supervisory staff . |
| 5 | Lamb 's QC had told the appeal he felt harshly treated when Surrey , whose bowlers had actually been caught ball-tampering three times , had only been handed a £1,000 suspended fine . |
| 6 | Along with learning to scuba dive , swim with dolphins , become an astronaut or climb Everest , one of my ambitions has always been to take time out to become really familiar with the business end of a recording studio . |
| 7 | The European Convention on Human Rights has not been made part of our law by statute , so it does not in itself create rights enforceable in our courts ; but having been ratified by this country it is binding on us as a matter of international law . |
| 8 | The findings pointed to a lack of training for social services staff and suggested senior SSD managers had not been providing workers or users with information about the changes . |
| 9 | Several Bosnian families have already been given shelter in this country until the fighting at home is over . |
| 10 | Although there are difficulties involved in defining the business sector for accounting purposes , these difficulties have never been considered primary . |
| 11 | To rally support the government had raised the pay of military personnel by 20 per cent in 1989 , and civil servants had also been awarded pay rises . |
| 12 | In the event , their arguments have all been to like effect . |
| 13 | Mr Kerrigan commented he was surprised that the exhausts had not been fitted back to front . |
| 14 | The battalion , which had operated in Namibia and Angola , was composed largely of Angolan rebels who had fought in the Angolan civil war , and also a number of white mercenaries ; its members had since been given South African citizenship . |
| 15 | Well another question — it 's been put several times on this programme — it 's something like this — Councillors have just been considering cuts in budgets that will affect the voters . |
| 16 | Reporters have not been allowed access to Chi Ma Wan or any of the other detention centres . |
| 17 | Graduates have also been granted exemptions by the professional bodies in personnel , marketing , banking and insurance . |
| 18 | Mr Richard Wakeford , senior research associate at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine , has already conducted a series of surveys into educational practices at British medical schools for the council , but the results have not been made public ( R Wakeford , personal communication ) . |
| 19 | It was said that birds had not been seen nesting or singing in the area of Belsen since the war . |
| 20 | The videos have even been sold door to door from delivery vans . |
| 21 | We now even have a situation where some of our members that the local authorities have now been given guidelines to recover the monies paid to them and . |
| 22 | The good reasons are that these projects have not been chucking people out into the community " willy-nilly " . |
| 23 | In recent years the courts have not been making compensation orders as freely as perhaps they might . |
| 24 | African researchers have also been investigating extracts from medicinal plants . |
| 25 | A vacuum is then created because new employers have not been given a chance to develop sufficiently for an orderly takeover and employees have not been given opportunities for retraining . |