Example sentences of "have been [verb] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last 4–5 years there has been a considerable amount of activity in the colony due to the expiry of the lease in 1997 when the land on which the colony has been built reverts back to its previous owner the Republic of China . |
| 2 | It should also be said , perhaps , that Lord Darlington was never what might be called a natural public speaker , and soon all those small sounds of restlessness that betray that an audience 's attention has been lost grew steadily around the room . |
| 3 | JAMES FULLER has been appointed to take over from John Hammond as general manager , JS restaurants , with full profit responsibility for the JS coffee shop business . |
| 4 | A Supervisor of Broadcasting ( Mr John Grist , who has long experience at senior level in broadcasting and television ) has been appointed to work directly on behalf of the Committee and to give directions on its behalf when urgent action is required . |
| 5 | Stress alone can be more harmful than cigarette smoking and has been proven to operate indirectly against the fetus because of the woman 's behaviour under stress . |
| 6 | The meeting between Brady and the directors has been made to sound more like a summons than a request . |
| 7 | This is because once the decision has been made to move away from incremental allocation based on historic spending the question of what merits funding is raised before issues of measurement . |
| 8 | Consciousness has , once again , been put on the agenda but the concept of ‘ consciousness ’ has been altered to fit in with ideas coming from fields like machine intelligence . |
| 9 | Sources in the US say Data General will this week take the wrapping off the eight-way AViiON multi-processors it has been dropping hints about for some time ( UX No 389 ) . |
| 10 | He says the county council has been trying to find out for 6 years about the planning of the east-west route because we were very worried about the effect it would have on Oxford and the countryside around Oxford . |
| 11 | The key phrase is , of course , ‘ he let his thinking catch up with him ’ , with its subtle implication that Tethra has been trying to run away from the knowledge that he does not belong . |
| 12 | The previous result has been restated to fit in with new accounting standards . |
| 13 | ABPC has been formed to take over from the project 's original partners , Total , Petrofina , LASMO , Inpex and the Syrian Petroleum Company — all of whom are shareholders in the new organisation . |
| 14 | It 's got nothing to do with the fact that he got bent out of shape at an early age and has been shaping laughs out of the kinks ever since . |
| 15 | BRIGHTNESS the beluga whale has been seen swimming happily in the Black Sea after escaping for the second time . |
| 16 | The venue has been selected to tie in with the trio 's preparations for the Hi-Tec British Open the following week . |
| 17 | All that time he has been kept going mainly by Russian hand-outs . |
| 18 | Being late will count against you far less if no one has been kept waiting around as a result . |
| 19 | Michael Kelly , the director whose company is responsible for Celtic 's public relations , yesterday confirmed that the manager has been asked to report back to the board with his observations on how the club 's performances can be improved . |
| 20 | When someone has been asked to make over on death whatever remains of an inheritance , and from the price of objects sold buys other objects , he is not regarded as having diminished [ the estate ] in respect of the objects sold … but the objects thus bought should be made over in place of the ownership which has changed … . |
| 21 | ‘ She confirmed what she has been attempting to gloss over in her bid to become deputy leader — that she is still as left wing as ever … a unilateralist in the mould of Tony Benn himself . |
| 22 | The producer/singer 's record company has been forced to come up with all kinds of excuses . |
| 23 | BBN last escaped the axe in 1986 and was subsequently revamped under its current editor Jennifer Creswick , but it has never been far from the blade as the Council has been forced to cut back over the years . |
| 24 | DONNIE HOOD from Glasgow has been forced to pull out of tomorrow 's European bantamweight title fight in Milan against former champion Vincenzo Belcastro of Italy after catching 'flu . |
| 25 | WINDSOR 'S Willie Noteman has been forced to pull out of the Carlsberg Ulster Championships which begin tomorrow week at the Boat Club . |
| 26 | Jo pulls out BADMINTON : Kent 's Jo Muggeridge has been forced to pull out of the England team for the Uber Cup competition in Holland this week due to wrist and arm injuries . |
| 27 | COLIN KEITH , a hero of last year 's victory , has been forced to pull out of Scotland 's team for the defence of the European Championships in Aix-en-Provence from 28 April-1 May . |
| 28 | Mr Heseltine has been forced to pull out of a Birmingham conference on global technology today as a contingency to allow the final details to be tied up in time for presentation to the Cabinet . |
| 29 | Comprising of a completely new type of lotion and pinless , lightweight rollers , this unique technique has been introduced to keep up with the increasing demand for 90 's sets . |
| 30 | In many cases the obligation has been held to arise out of an implied term of a contract between the parties . |