Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | A landing-stage has been built at the end of the path , but there is no boat , and on the far side stands a stone summerhouse , the door ajar . |
| 2 | If your item of concern has been placed at the end of the agenda , the probability is that time will run out and you may want to get it moved forward . |
| 3 | A priority order form has been placed at the end of this section . |
| 4 | Mr James was brought in by Eagle 's creditor banks — the group has debts of over £80m — and has been given until the end of next year to turn the business around . |
| 5 | Britain 's packaging industry has been given until the end of the year to draw up plans for recycling 50-75 per cent of all packaging waste by the year 2000 . |
| 6 | A decision on his longer term future has been delayed until the end of the season . |
| 7 | I spose he has been fading towards the end of matches , but then again — who has nt ? |
| 8 | After a stainless steel insert has been pushed into the end of the pipe , the pipe can then be pushed into the fitting with a slight twisting motion . |
| 9 | Hair has been tonged at the ends for this great look by Paul Houghton from the Level salon |
| 10 | Before the wanton destruction began there were 16 million sq kms of rainforest around the world ; that figure has been halved since the end of the Second World War . |
| 11 | A separate section describing some of the famous warriors of Ulthuan has been included at the end of the army list . |
| 12 | Thus , in addition to an analysis of the results for each question in turn , a section of general comments on the above themes has been included in the end of each group of questions . |
| 13 | Mr Richard Aiken , counsel for BBC Enterprises , had told the court that a decision on whether to continue the BBC Europe service should have been made at the end of November but had been deferred until a meeting of the directors on December 29 . |
| 14 | If the devastation continues at current rates , much of the Amazon Rainforest will have been obliterated by the end of the century , now just ten years away . |
| 15 | Up to 94 per cent of the UK 's water voles will have been lost by the end of this century , according to a recent survey . |
| 16 | He confirmed that 150 beds should have been opened by the end of March . |
| 17 | A special commission which would have been held at the end of the month has had to be brought forward because of Mr McTear 's deteriorating condition . |
| 18 | A Royal Ulster Constabulary spokesman said : ‘ Although he may have been coming to the end of his racing career , he was potentially valuable for stud purposes . ’ |
| 19 | At the end of 1990-91 , £1 billion of the poll tax remains uncollected in England alone and about 7.5 million summonses will have been issued by the end of the year . |
| 20 | A third secretary at the UK embassy was reported on July 21 to have been given until the end of the month to leave the country , accused of having " violated diplomatic norms " . |
| 21 | If no date had been fixed by the end of 1997 than the European System of Central Banks had to be established by July 1 , 1998 , and stage three would begin by Jan. 1 , 1999 , at the latest . |
| 22 | £30,000 had been raised by the end of the year . |
| 23 | He left behind him at Faber and Faber a most efficient young secretary , Miss Valerie Fletcher , who had been appointed at the end of August . |
| 24 | They had managed to buy the son of inexpensive terrace house which had been built at the end of the nineteenth century for workers and which still continued to be in a working-class area . |
| 25 | Japan had assumed control over Korea , Formosa , the Pescadores and the southern half of Sakhalin , which had been obtained at the end of the Russo Japanese War in 1905 . |
| 26 | In 1991 the Philippines ' Senate had refused to ratify a renegotiated bases treaty , and the US military had been given until the end of 1992 to effect a complete withdrawal . |
| 27 | The regular surveys carried out by the British Antarctic Survey at its Halley Bay and Faraday stations show that two-thirds of the layer had been destroyed before the end of September . |
| 28 | I would therefore hold that where there is a split trial or more accurately , in relation to a non-jury case , a split hearing , any party may appeal without leave against an order made at the end of one part if he could have appealed against such an order without leave if both parts had been heard together and the order had been made at the end of the complete hearing . |
| 29 | The first quarter deficit had been about 80,000 million roubles , although January and February had shown a 12,200 million rouble surplus , as concessions on social spending and tax cuts had been made towards the end of the first quarter . |
| 30 | No breakthrough on the future of the republic after the referendum had been made by the end of the third round of talks on Feb. 27 . |