Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of his achievements since joining Guy 's in 1985 has been to set up a full fertility unit . |
| 2 | An inquest has been hearing how a six-month old baby girl died from a fractured skull after being dropped on her head at playschool . |
| 3 | And more recently there seems to be a tendency for people to say , ‘ he has been seen out a few times , he must be OK ’ , when the threat to my life is unchanged . ’ |
| 4 | If a terminal node has been reached then a new non-terminal branch is created , labelled with the first unmatched symbol . |
| 5 | But the net effect has been to leave exactly the same number dependent upon means-tested assistance . |
| 6 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 7 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 8 | A Liverpool City Council spokesman said : ‘ He has been granted both a disabled facilities grant and mandatory renovation grant . ’ |
| 9 | The pathogenesis of the disease has always been controversial , but considerable circumstantial evidence exists to support the suggestion that it is due to implantation of endometrium that has been refluxed down the fallopian tube at menstruation . |
| 10 | These compensatory orders can only be obtained against the contravener who , for section 6 purposes , has been carrying on the unauthorised investment business , or who , for section 61 purposes , has contravened one or other of the statutory provisions referred to in section 61(1) ( a ) . |
| 11 | I know that the National Audit Office has been carrying out a value-for-money study of NRA coast protection schemes . |
| 12 | Rock'n'roll has become so totally predictable and everybody has been doing exactly the same thing now for , like , 25 years . |
| 13 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |
| 14 | As a result , one of the central policy priorities of government has been to strengthen significantly the academic infrastructure so that research and postgraduate training activities are adequate to meet the future needs of industry , especially in what have been termed ‘ exploitable areas of science ’ . |
| 15 | The death grant has been finished quite a long time ago , but there was the death grant erm because I can remember you know this , people telling me about this . |
| 16 | Since about 1988 , Rob Gallagher ( aka Galliano ) has been putting together the cross-cultural , many-sided musical jigsaw that shares his nickname . |
| 17 | Whatever the problems with these rather global and unanalytic formulations , none the less they do encapsulate one indispensable and basic argument of feminism , the argument that women 's experience has been left out : one of the central themes of feminism has been the importance of women 's experience , and one of its central enterprises has been to show how a great deal of male theorising about women has tended to deny , invalidate , or be unable to account for this experience . |
| 18 | A court has been told how a former player with Swindon Town Football Club tried to blackmail his ex-chairman over tax-free payments to staff . |
| 19 | ‘ Everything in this century has been put on the marital couple . |
| 20 | Though no official cost has been put on the deep-water well which led to the West of Shetland find , industry sources suggest the total outlay may have been less than £10 million . |
| 21 | After all , the state owns many buildings and assets , and much emphasis has been put on the institutional shareholdings of insurance companies and pension funds . |
| 22 | Now that the Asian elephant has been put on the endangered list and included in the Red Data Book of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature 's Survival Service , governments will find it difficult officially to sanction catching operations . |
| 23 | The museum , along with its art gallery , has been put on the endangered list by Thamesdown Borough Council , which is being forced to make cuts in its budget . |
| 24 | She has been offered only the statutory minimum of £4,715 in redundancy pay . |
| 25 | A Parliamentary Commission , presided over by Christian Democrat Giorgio Santz has been investigating how the preceding laws have worked and has now come up with its report which shows that in the last eight years , of the L1,500 billion allocated to Venice only L853 billion ( £394.3 million ; $686 million ) have actually been spent . |
| 26 | In this industry , none has been brought in the past six months . |
| 27 | A variety of cargoes , as diverse as Britain 's industries , has been carried on the inland waterways . |
| 28 | It is very difficult to do this satisfactorily ; the experienced reader can nearly always see where the joins have been made and , of course , for the student the exercise in beginning research has been carried out the wrong way round . |
| 29 | But the forest has been spared perhaps the ultimate in toxic waste . |
| 30 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |