Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been trying to find alternative berths for incoming cargoes and negotiating the release of ships waiting to sail on the night time . |
| 2 | I 've been trying to find loose stones again . |
| 3 | I 've been told to change these procedures to . |
| 4 | Harp Lager have been trying to attract English horses and although this is never easy I 'm sure that if the right money was available , then the barriers would come down . |
| 5 | We have been trying to breed Red Pandas for some time but they are very difficult . |
| 6 | Wherever possible , statistics have been cited to condense general changes which cover long periods . |
| 7 | Similarly , at various times nationalized industries have been instructed to pursue social objectives or to help implement incomes policy by holding their price increases to less than the general inflation rate . |
| 8 | Wella 's Balsam Massaging Hot Oils have been formulated to combine these benefits with the nourishing and moisturising ingredients of the oils . |
| 9 | The government is becoming aware of the threat and songs have been composed to educate rural women farmers on the use of fertilizers , pesticides and food storage in order that they can increase production . |
| 10 | Clients under pressure have been tempted to take short cuts in the hope that , when demand picks up again , they will be able to cover up their tracks . |
| 11 | The p&l account for 1990/91 and the balance sheet at 30 June 1991 have been restated to reflect these changes , as has the five-year record . |
| 12 | The no-neutrino results have been achieved using magnetic spectrometers . |
| 13 | Numerous experiments have been conducted involving different variations of the principles . |
| 14 | But for some Japan has been ‘ a little bit of a struggle ’ this year , and its problems have been seen to affect other markets in the region . |
| 15 | The data have been analysed to clarify three aspects of Chinese politics : the relationship between changes in policies and changes in personnel ; the career patterns of provincial laeders ; and the political ranking of provinces within China . |
| 16 | Accident and school roll data have been analysed to identify those schools which have high casualty rates per head of school roll . |
| 17 | Parents of pupils at the school have been asked to give 210 pounds each to bale it out of trouble … but not all can afford to pay . |
| 18 | You have been asked to prepare short entries about the Jingo and the Spiggy . |
| 19 | All too often , conservators have been asked to make important decisions affecting the state of a work of art without informed comment from other specialists . |
| 20 | For more than a decade , Lloyd 's has been riven by scandals of various kinds ; professionals employed to assess the riskiness of insured risks and apportion them among the rich risk-takers have been discovered to have salted funds away on their own account . |
| 21 | Children in the Faroe Islands have been discovered to have alarmingly-high levels of mercury present in their tissues , apparently as a result of their mothers consuming meat from pilot whales during pregnancy . |
| 22 | Although tools have been developed allowing trained users to perform analysis quickly the process is demanding . |
| 23 | Most products have been developed to suit general needs or niche needs . |
| 24 | Accounting systems have been developed to handle these kinds of restrictions ( fund accounting ) . |
| 25 | These Professional Development Awards have been developed to offer further qualifications to those who have achieved relevant national awards in engineering practice . |
| 26 | Many attempts have been made to classify British cattle breeds on the basis of ancestry and these categories are often based on obvious physical characteristics such as horns and coat colour . |
| 27 | Few serious attempts have been made to devise diagnostic tests in reading and number for the purpose of indicating relative attainment of learners . |
| 28 | At various times proposals have been made to give local authorities general enabling powers akin to those of continental authorities — power to do anything not forbidden them . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Knowsley have been made to wait 10 days before they can attempt to put last weekend 's disappointing 2-1 defeat at Alfreton behind them . |
| 30 | Data compression is so vital to the future of information media that considerable international efforts have been made to create global standards governing the way in which compression is handled . |