Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After three centuries of decline , the first steps had been taken on the path to restoration . |
| 2 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 3 | There 's the nucleus of a very good side here , the young lads have been brought up the Lyall way . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 8 | 20 years after Joan Main disappeared , police officers have been digging up the garden of her former husband 's house . |
| 9 | As soon as these orders had been carried out the prisoners started to leave . |
| 10 | ‘ As a consequence of these deaths , the very highest levels have been cranking up the troops to find who did this . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Even now , however , no decisions had been taken on the speed of emancipation or the form it should take . |
| 13 | He said more precise figures would not be available until decisions had been taken on the form of restoration . |
| 14 | 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 ] . |
| 15 | Teachers have been clearing up the mess and the headmaster says some lessons will be held in a nearby school later this week . |
| 16 | Some Opposition Members have been talking down the region . |
| 17 | Technological developments have been used down the ages to fragment jobs and de-skill workers , they claim . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Mothers of younger and younger children have been taking on the dual burden of paid work and child rearing ( see Hunt , 1968 ; Martin and Roberts , 1984 ; Joshi , 1985 ) . |
| 25 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 26 | Cricket now … the amateur players of the Minor Counties have been taking on the game 's elite in the first round of the Nat West Trophy . |
| 27 | The Russian authorities have been playing down the severity of an explosion at the secret Tomsk-7 reprocessing plant in Siberia . |
| 28 | EURO Disney may be officially opening tomorrow , but tens of thousands of guests and Disney employees have been trying out the rides this week . |