Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And finally , an animal sanctuary threatened with closure because of a cash shortage has been saved thanks to Central South viewers . |
| 2 | The cards , which cover the period from 1910 to 1945 , belong to David Watkins from Bangor in Gwynedd who has been collecting samples of nursing humour for many years . |
| 3 | ‘ In ophthalmology there have been some problems but a new consultant has been appointed thanks to increased funding made available by this government . |
| 4 | The base has been training airmen for more than half a century . |
| 5 | He has been taking photographs for ten years and divides his time between Paris and New York , where he was born . |
| 6 | For example , the Banana Company of Costa Rica , a subsidiary of United Brands , has been converting plantations to African palm production , an enterprise which has a guaranteed internal market , as Costa Rica imports nearly all its vegetable oil . |
| 7 | He has been given instructions to this effect . |
| 8 | A court has been hearing details of twenty one offences committed by the boy in a seven month period . |
| 9 | Consequently , industry practice has been to reinforce policies of vertical ownership — the creation of an ‘ internal ’ market — as a more effective method of managing the uncertainties ( UNCTC , 1981 ; Hennart , 1988 ) . |
| 10 | It is the small company which soaks up the unemployed , rather than the larger company , which of late has been shedding workers in massive numbers . |
| 11 | Deminex UK , which has secured another Liverpool Bay licence , has been exploring fields since 1972 and operating on them since 1977 . |
| 12 | Apple has been advising developers for some time to use names and not numbers but not all seem to have taken heed — it looks as though they will have to when System 7.0 comes out next year equipped with Apple 's own outline font system . |
| 13 | THE secret night-life of salmon has been revealed thanks to infra-red cameras . |
| 14 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 15 | Regional Council president Gérard Longuet has been holding discussions on this agreement since June not only with Les Verts but also with Génération Ecologie , two of whose six representatives also announced their support for his administration . |
| 16 | A major reason for surrogacy arrangements in Western countries today has been to allow men in heterosexual couples to continue their ’ bloodline ’ when their partners , the women , have fertility problems . |
| 17 | The effect has been to highlight weaknesses in each of the traditional interpretations and to demythologize the revolutionary intelligentsia . |
| 18 | CECOMM ( the Centre for Electronic Communications and Open Support Systems in Education ) has been delivering courses in computerised communications via CMCS since 1987 . |
| 19 | Photobooth Collages , since 1985 , Liz Rideal has been using prints from high street photobooths to create large composite pictures . |
| 20 | ‘ Edinvar has been serving tenants for 20 years and Link has been a landlord for nearly 30 years , so we both have a long history of putting tenants first . ’ |
| 21 | Born in 1908 , Maitre Lelièpvre has been drawing horses for most of his life , and sold his first painting at the age of eight . |
| 22 | The AA has been helping motorists since 1905 . |
| 23 | Manager Brian Kettle has been having talks with several players with a view to signings and is hopeful of progress within the next week . |
| 24 | Where the task has been to make judgments of affective tone or extract central information from a slide , differences have emerged between central and peripheral details and this may well reflect the fact that attention to arousing information or central information ( which are assumed to be the same thing ) is explicitly required for task performance . |
| 25 | Her preferred method has been to make policies with small working parties , drawn from sympathetic ministers and members of her Policy Unit and ‘ think tanks ’ , as with the introduction of the poll tax , the health service review , and some of the education reforms . |
| 26 | The RSPCA 's policy has been to recommend changes in many fishing practices in order to reduce the possibility of pain . |
| 27 | Farmer Rob Keene has been growing pumpkins for five years , and he 's seen sales rocket . |
| 28 | JSL of Hereford has been making pistols since 1975 , mostly for export . |
| 29 | Where Deray has been making films for 30 years , Pierre Jolivet 's Force Majeure ( complete with an eccentric appearance by a French-speaking Alan Bates ) represents only his third feature . |
| 30 | ACET 's response has been to provide clients with special tubes for the disposal of dirty needles and syringes or help them if they wish to cease injecting . |