Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Approval is given for something that has been done so the management arrow is somewhat behind the broken arrow . |
| 2 | The railway station has been re-sited down the line to make room for the town 's bypass . |
| 3 | Once it has been demonstrated how the logic behind the traditional fidelity to the interests of the shareholders is flawed in the context of the large public company , we are free to examine exactly the nature of the stake which shareholders and others have in the company . |
| 4 | The practice has been terminated whereby the staff of the Accounts Section served in the Library on secondment from the Scottish Office . |
| 5 | Decision taking has been delegated down the management structure : sales and support staff have more responsibility and freedom to respond to customer needs . |
| 6 | Once the management task has been defined then the type of information required can be identified . |
| 7 | The marsh has been drained so the water forms a lake with small islands for birds and wildlife . |
| 8 | It has been seen how the Thatcher Governments have been busy in turning the taxation of wealth into a voluntary tax . |
| 9 | If an announcement has been prepared then the response to a leak should be more effective than in the event of having to deal with the situation at short notice . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times . |
| 12 | Primarily , the fact that nostalgia has been thrown out the window and crushed by the futuristic steamroller from hell . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Fitted with an original 80hp Le Rhone rotary engine , ‘ A635 ’ has been shipped out the USA and flown successfully . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It has been shown how the discourse of the Newbolt Report offered to universities a leadership role within an ambitious programme for intervention into popular cultures and literacies . |
| 19 | The company 's next Sparc processor , the 100MHz Viper , has been put on the back burner pending Sun 's decision . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They must have been brought in the hope of some celebration to which the way had been lost . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 29 | In Zambia aircraft accident investigation was the responsibility of the Director of Civil Aviation and the official who occupied that position had been appointed only the day before the accident occurred . |
| 30 | 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 . |