Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | After three centuries of decline , the first steps had been taken on the path to restoration . |
| 2 | If those shells had been preserved then the sand and shingle in which they lay could not have been eroded by the sun and wind . |
| 3 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 4 | There 's the nucleus of a very good side here , the young lads have been brought up the Lyall way . ’ |
| 5 | As this representation is difficult for the draughtsman to interpret , mesh lines have been inserted down the front and side view axis ( to give Figure 6.23 ) . |
| 6 | The US authorities claimed that the decision to evacuate Peace Corps workers had been taken on the basis of general intelligence concerning NPA intentions , and that Swanson 's abduction had only become known after the decision had been made . |
| 7 | The linoleum tiles in the middle area of the floor were rimmed by some new type of carpet , there was a false ceiling and false blinds had been hung on the walls . |
| 8 | ‘ The banks have been giving away the savings market to the building societies since the 1950s , ’ he says , ‘ but we have now proved large numbers of people will save with us . |
| 9 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 10 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 11 | have pointed out that if it is feasible and believable for entrants to write firm ( but presumably secret ) contracts with customers for delivery over some fixed time period in the future , then the third and fourth conditions have been circumvented yet the result is the same . |
| 12 | 20 years after Joan Main disappeared , police officers have been digging up the garden of her former husband 's house . |
| 13 | For the past 23 years Unionists have been saying exactly the same thing with regard to both security policy and political policy . |
| 14 | As soon as these orders had been carried out the prisoners started to leave . |
| 15 | ‘ As a consequence of these deaths , the very highest levels have been cranking up the troops to find who did this . ’ |
| 16 | For example , on a second camera pass a projector was run along with the Discovery model to project action within the craft , seen at the windows , the windows having been blacked out the first time . |
| 17 | Even now , however , no decisions had been taken on the speed of emancipation or the form it should take . |
| 18 | He said more precise figures would not be available until decisions had been taken on the form of restoration . |
| 19 | Charges had been brought in the USA in July 1991 against BCCI 's founder , Agha Hasan Abedi , and BCCI 's former chief operating officer , Swaleh Naqvi [ see p. 38355 ] . |
| 20 | Teachers have been clearing up the mess and the headmaster says some lessons will be held in a nearby school later this week . |
| 21 | Some Opposition Members have been talking down the region . |
| 22 | Technological developments have been used down the ages to fragment jobs and de-skill workers , they claim . |
| 23 | ‘ Quite a number of our staff live in Wimbledon and some practical jokers have been putting up the other Graham Hadley 's pamphlets , ’ he says . |
| 24 | The microprocessor wars are going to get vicious over the next two or three years , and to convince its acolytes that Sparc will be one of the survivors , Sun Microsystems has been mapping out the future of the architecture . |
| 25 | Indeed , as administrator Myra Hickey points out , when the Labour council was elected in 1986 one of its manifesto commitments had been to bring back the festival which had been absent for the previous two years owing to the council reclaiming its original site . |
| 26 | ( Her aunts had been saying much the same kind of thing to her all her life , I believe . ) |
| 27 | All the children had been rushed indoors the moment the trouble started . |
| 28 | The aim of successive American administrations had been to build up the strength of the most vulnerable states in the area — those known until the Second World War as French Indo-China and later divided into the separate states of Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia . |
| 29 | Well over 400 individual environmental measures have been taken over the past 12 months to deliver our commitments , ranging from telephone helplines for those concerned about air quality to major international agreements on new standards for cars and water . |
| 30 | Sharma v Knight [ 1986 ] 1 WLR 757 is authority for the proposition that jurisdiction conferred on county courts by statute is a general one and it is not restricted to the district in which proceedings should have been brought in accordance with Ord 4 , r 8 and that , if proceedings have been brought in the wrong county court , then the court nevertheless has jurisdiction to deal with the matter . |