Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 A great deal of confidence has been built up in this system and NASA regularly publish reports of incidents notified to them , though of course without any reference to the individuals involved .
2 Coun David Lyonette ( Lab ) said : ‘ An awful lot of money has been made out of this area .
3 Commentator Tom Tyrell said : ‘ This is the first time in 22 years that this station has been shut out in this way .
4 The letter from earlier in the year to the Chief Executive of the Council has been followed up by this department investigating its own use of peat — which is fairly limited .
5 However , it is not necessary for the user to prove conclusively that the right has been exercised back to this date .
6 Yes , er er I mean I agree with you Chairman entirely , I mean the arguments have been made before and I will just say them again , that I think the District Council are quite remiss er in asking for this sum of money , particularly in view of the reason that the , the , the field is there , which is for the recreation of the people who live in the estate , and the back end of Southwell , and it always has been , er and that is a responsibility that has been taken on by this Parish Council , and if , if , if they feel that they , they wish to persist in asking an unreasonable price , and let's face it , the District Council is in a position to look at this situation and say , the Parish Council is doing an excellent job , we will sell them this land for a figure that they can afford .
7 Again , this has been taken up in this country with workshops on ‘ PASS ’ and ‘ PASSING ’ being widely networked largely through the energies of CMHERA .
8 3 A piece of string 36cm long has been pulled out to this shape .
9 She 's only done half the course and already she has been picked out for this job .
10 Significant research has been carried out in this field .
11 It is almost as if all the punishment , admonishment and educative pressure which the aboriginal child has been spared up to this moment is suddenly and simultaneously inflicted on him ( here , for once , the masculine pronoun does not embrace the feminine because initiation is an exclusively masculine affair ) .
12 Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database .
13 Just to know that there are rapists around who could have been tracked down with this method is justification for a database .
14 So what we know is that this must have been blocked up before this doorway was inserted , okay ?
15 An ordinary person must have been put out by this .
16 They must have been washed up on this ancient beach after being torn from their moorings , perhaps by a storm .
17 This puts me in the position of having to either cancel the project — which would be a great discouragment to the volunteers , who might be reluctant to come forward again having been let down over this one — or risk going on without funding ( and then perhaps being told that funding can not be granted retrospectively ? ) .
18 ‘ I was very surprised to have been singled out for this honour .
19 Since the seventeenth century we seem to have been caught up in this vicious cycle , alternatively applying the model of capitalist society to the animal kingdom , then reapplying this bourgeoisified animal kingdom to the interpretation of society .
20 Jim had been blown out of this room as though he had never been .
21 If so , then it was a case of sweet revenge for Whittingham , who had been shot down by this unit over England during 1940 !
22 In terms of the way the issue had been considered up to this point there could have been no other answer .
23 Some professional groups , especially general practitioners , felt that they had been left out of this planning process .
24 Somebody asked , a bit hesitantly , how you would define the Dark Ireland , and Dorrainge , who felt he had been left out of this conversation for too long , said it was rather difficult .
25 A complete set of drills had been worked out by this time with , for example , five phases in recovering a swimmer after his recce .
26 Zeinab had been brought up in this culture .
27 I find that is the situation that I 've tried to er , guard against with the budget that we 've been put in on this occasion , and I hope that answers er , er , Mr but er , I 'll answer any other questions that are put up .
28 ‘ Despite this , planning applications for change of use to offices have been turned down on this ‘ residential ’ side of the road . ’
29 Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose .
30 Stone and marble fixtures weighing 400 tonnes from a garden in Boston have been shipped over for this sale .
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