Example sentences of "have be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hanson has been built up into one of Britain 's leading companies over a period of twenty years based on an acquisition philosophy which involves a reduction in the acquired company 's bureaucracy , devolution of responsibility to local managers , a tight control of capital expenditure and a disposal of some of the peripheral assets which are not part of the company 's ‘ core activities ’ . |
| 2 | The Electrochemical Technology business has been built up since 1981 to capitalize on ICI 's expertise in chlor-alkali production and electrochemistry. the FM21 membrane cell has been sold since that year , mainly as part of a chlor-alkali production package , but recent developments have led to its use in the manufacture of more complex speciality or ‘ effect ’ chemicals . |
| 3 | It has been built up since 1975 by combining Fiat 's original truck division in Italy with foreign acquisitions : Unic in France , Magirus in Germany , Pegaso in Spain and Iveco Ford in the UK ( in which Fiat has a 48% stake , but controls operations ) . |
| 4 | One of Napier 's longest-running courses has been phased out after 24 years . |
| 5 | It has been cut back to 700 shops , each with just six departments . |
| 6 | Today 's new generation of black directors has been spurred on by two particular success stories . |
| 7 | This year in itself , the single person has been done out of two pound ninety pence and er after the er older ones that 's four pound odd . |
| 8 | Manufacturing industry is now expected to grow by 1.6 per cent this year , against only 0.5 per cent last November , but the forecast for 1994 has been revised down to 2.8 per cent from 3.1 per cent . |
| 9 | The importance of housing costs in the retail price index has been scaled down from 172 per mille to 164 , motoring costs from 143 to 136 per mille , and food from 152 to 144 per mille . |
| 10 | Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible . |
| 11 | HARTLEPOOL United defender Keith Nobbs has been ruled out for four weeks . |
| 12 | The £750,000 Payton has been ruled out for two weeks with a torn hamstring sustained in the FA Cup replay defeat by Portsmouth . |
| 13 | The case of the proposed sale by London University 's Royal Holloway College of a good Turner , Constable and Gainsborough ( in that order ) from the collection given to it by its founder Thomas Holloway has been rumbling on since 1988 , arousing increasing indignation in some academic and most heritage circles . |
| 14 | The contrast between Reagan and his predecessor in these situations has been pointed up by one Democratic congressman . |
| 15 | Each turkey , fresh from the taxidermist , has been tarted up in one sort of drag or another from Parlour maid to Kabuki actor and , who knows ? maybe even Uncle Sam . |
| 16 | Experiments have been using deuterium alone , and the temperature of the plasma has been pushed up to 300 million degrees . |
| 17 | Officially , the Government has been expecting up to one million appeals . |
| 18 | Officially , the Government has been expecting up to one million appeals . |
| 19 | AN IDEA for transmitting signals through the mains wiring has been traced back to 1897 , when Joseph Routin and C. E. L. Brown of Zurich , Switzerland , took out British Patent number 24833 . |
| 20 | Mills 's activity as a surveyor and architect has been traced back to 1638 , but his claim to architectural celebrity was his building in 1654–6 of Thorpe Hall , near Peterborough , for Oliver St John [ q.v . ] , |
| 21 | It has been attended by over 20,000 people in UK already . |
| 22 | Our village has been attacked by over 500 well-equipped contras . |
| 23 | After last year 's success he has appeared on TV and radio all over the world and has been signed up by three advertising agencies . |
| 24 | The Protocol has been signed by over 40 countries and came into force at the beginning of 1989 . |
| 25 | From the start of his rugby involvement he has been marked down as one of very high promise . |
| 26 | Their blueprint for a sort of gun-rack for spades and hoes has been taken up by one manufacturer . |
| 27 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 28 | ICL 's parallel engine will effectively productise work that has been going on since 1989 under the auspices of a European Community Esprit II project known as the European Declarative System , EDS . |
| 29 | The present round of talks , which broke down and sparked the trade war between the US and Europe yesterday , has been going on for six years . |
| 30 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |