Example sentences of "that 's been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opus Systems Inc , Fremont , California , the Sparc clone pioneer that 's been struggling to keep its head above water for a long time , filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this month , claiming it should n't need the court 's protection after February 11 . |
| 2 | Eh and perhaps were one of the major funders in the past I say General Portfolio until recently were the major funders er in the in the ninety ninety one but there 's been no company that 's been funding the theatre on a regular basis . |
| 3 | And them that 's been drinking and that and did n't come b back |
| 4 | A pub that 's been painted pink is making villagers see red . |
| 5 | A pub that 's been painted pink is making villagers see red . |
| 6 | It 's a time bomb that 's been ticking for centuries and the fuse has always been gold . |
| 7 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 8 | Effectively you ‘ field ’ their excuse , just like being on a cricket field and throwing back a ball that 's been hit towards you . |
| 9 | to the tune of four and a half billion , then look towards the legislation that 's been inflicted upon us by the Conservative government . |
| 10 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |
| 11 | AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace . |
| 12 | But th , we go get a er , report from the counselling agency on the type of , of er , question that 's been posed , and I would expect that that agency would be providing help and guidance , er , along the lines of suggesting and working with the individual on problems of the type , which I 'm sure you have at the front of your mind . |
| 13 | Or is it that you 're worried about having to work a bit harder for the grand wages I give you … wages that 's been strangled out of me by that bloody woman o ’ yours ? ’ |
| 14 | The intention there Chair , is to , is to do further work er , to consolidate on the work that 's been achieved during the , during the year , but also to set out a programme for the er , following period of time , er , from er , April nineteen ninety four until March nineteen ninety five , so that erm , members of the Committee are able to comment on the , on the intentions er , on the draft strategies that are being put forward as a result of the review that takes place er , following the first year 's activity . |
| 15 | Oh I think er starting fr it 's harder work starting Well it 's hard work anyway th I mean sometimes er a a job that 's been polished before , it 's patchy but I mean that 's really all stripped down to You know what I mean , it 's it 's a It 's that 's all stripped down |
| 16 | ‘ Is there something about my work that 's been bothering you , Headmaster ? ’ |
| 17 | It 's a question that 's been bothering me . |
| 18 | I 'm only interested in everything that 's been sidelined . ’ |
| 19 | Ah , but I mean you do you ai n't gon na get the experience , I phoned this job line that 's been advertised on the telly this week and erm it 's like second chance , you can go and have erm experience , get experience |
| 20 | Fantastic records both , but like There 's a Riot Goin' On , they do n't fit the erroneous model of ‘ political soul ’ that 's been constructed by white ‘ soulcialists ’ . |
| 21 | If we find a flat that 's been broke into . |
| 22 | There are sort of costs in that respect that that come out of this erm business report er and on the late sides erm we would actually support the motion that 's been moved by er Charles and Jane but there is a policy of response and that does n't mean to say that they will accept all of it but there may be some good elements er er within it but we need to actually refer it . |
| 23 | For that reason we will support the amendment that 's been moved by Labour . |
| 24 | No a f a fossil is something that 's been turned to stone in the ground . |
| 25 | said I 've got a guy that 's been stood here for an hour , do n't know what to do with him . . |
| 26 | The governor says that 's been stopped , but staff are worried that the young offenders they 're having to deal with have come from other prisons already wrecked by riots . |
| 27 | When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes . |
| 28 | erm My cause for concern , and I think it 's one that 's been echoed in a number of places , is the still very high figure for food-poisoning outbreaks , for food-poisoning cases , erm you 'll see we 're not as high as the previous comparable half-year of last year , which was ninety-two , but that included the Keble outbreak , which you 're well aware of , but at thirty-two for Oxford for a half year , that 's a very high figure . |
| 29 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 30 | And it 's a journey that 's been travelled before , even in Ancient Greece : |