Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The railway station has been re-sited down the line to make room for the town 's bypass .
2 Decision taking has been delegated down the management structure : sales and support staff have more responsibility and freedom to respond to customer needs .
3 A KPMG spokesman said : " The environment has been pushed down the agenda of many private companies by other factors such as the recession and exchange rates .
4 The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times .
5 After the computer has been started up a number of times — possibly 90 — the damage starts .
6 Primarily , the fact that nostalgia has been thrown out the window and crushed by the futuristic steamroller from hell .
7 Once the microcomputer has been switched off the data is only available from one or the disks — it is no longer in the computer 's memory .
8 By law she is not allowed to smack the children and I can not understand , sometimes how she manages to stop herself when brand new wallpaper has been pulled off the wall and a clean coat of paint has been drawn on .
9 because like when I see him , you know , and he has been sorted out a bit recently not really sorted
10 Fitted with an original 80hp Le Rhone rotary engine , ‘ A635 ’ has been shipped out the USA and flown successfully .
11 This view shows the station still under construction and it will be seen that a temporary track has been laid up the ramp to Infirmary Road to enable materials to be offloaded .
12 Close inspection reveals that a strip of reverse grain timber has been laid down the centre in order to add strength — another old-fashioned idea and a good one , too .
13 The company 's next Sparc processor , the 100MHz Viper , has been put on the back burner pending Sun 's decision .
14 It is worth pointing out that Thameslink 2000 has been put back a year .
15 She scraped them carefully and put them in a steel pan , covering them with the bottled still water in which they would be boiled , thereby retaining the vitamin C which would otherwise have been poured down the sink .
16 The ragazza should never have been put down the well , that was the fault of her husband who did n't fully understand the house and was ignorant of its ways .
17 I should have been kitted out a week earlier but they 'd got no shoes to fit me .
18 Other techniques may also have been taken over the Atlantic by the conquistadores and , though lost from view of Spain , preserved in South America ; tremolo and on-the-box percussion , both used by King , are two of these .
19 They must have been brought in the hope of some celebration to which the way had been lost .
20 In a discontinued action , the district judge has power , on taxation , to determine the scale of costs ( Ord 38 , r 4(7) ) and as to costs where an action is brought and tried in the High Court which could have been brought in the county court see s 19 .
21 A personal injury claim was commenced in the High Court when , in accordance with the High Court and County Court Jurisdiction Order 1990 , it should have been brought in the county court , a fact which the person bringing the case in the High Court knew or should have known .
22 It may have been driven around a bit before it entered the water .
23 He has started just two matches so far , having been pushed down the pecking order by the arrival of £2 million David Rocastle from Arsenal .
24 Finally , long after her ‘ spot ’ had been and gone , Deborah arrived , hot and flustered having been shunted down the Thames from London Weekend on a boat with a troupe of belly dancers all making last minute adjustments to their costumes , or lack of them .
25 The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane .
26 The pulpit had been wreathed in holly , ivy had been twined up the lectern , garlands of leaves and berries hung from the gallery where 18th-century fiddlers had played before the organ came .
27 A little mirror had been hung on the wall of the dressing area .
28 The linoleum tiles in the middle area of the floor were rimmed by some new type of carpet , there was a false ceiling and false blinds had been hung on the walls .
29 She said how the old people 's sitting room had been livened up when a few pictures of old Barnsley had been hung on the walls .
30 A plaque had been hung on the gates : ‘ Fierce Dog — Beware ’ .
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