Example sentences of "have be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past 150 years our politicians have been droning on about the need to train the British worker to the level of the German , oblivious to the somewhat obvious fact that we are not Germans so can not be expected to behave like them . |
| 2 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 3 | Consequently , the weft strands form the pattern on the face of the rug which , because they have been looped back around the warp strands , is clearly visible from both back and front . |
| 4 | Some bureaux have been invited in by the probation or education departments or by the prison governor . |
| 5 | THE glow of recognition will be sweet for those who have been singled out in the New Year Honours list . |
| 6 | The chemical industry 's efforts to secure insurance have been stepped up following the publication of a number of European directives suggesting a move towards much wider compulsory compensation for environmental damage . |
| 7 | ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring on beaches at Sellafield have been stepped up following the discovery of a grass-like substance . |
| 8 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 9 | The relevant texts have been deposited along with the presidency conclusions . |
| 10 | Less robust , but far more weighty , messages of similar import from Conservative back-benchers have been raining down on the heads of Norman Lamont and John Major since Tuesday 's announcement that VAT will be imposed on domestic gas , electricity and coal . |
| 11 | I have been blotted out from the world . |
| 12 | Even British farmers have been getting in on the act , attracted by the lure of cheap agricultural land at prices half those on our side of the Channel . |
| 13 | In all experiments on toroidal discharges neutrons have been observed in about the numbers to be expected if thermonuclear reactions were proceeding . |
| 14 | The origins of the black cat , as a distinct colour type , have been traced back to the ancient Phoenicians , who sneaked some of the sacred cats out of Egypt and began trading in them around the Mediterranean . |
| 15 | On past experience , a 15 per cent devaluation could be expected to feed through at roughly 3 per cent a year for five years , and if this is repeated , it is still far too soon to say that inflationary expectations have been beaten out of the economy . |
| 16 | ( The PPP figures have been scaled up from the World Bank 's 1990 figures . ) |
| 17 | The prosecution could not prove that he had encashed the giros because they are destroyed by the DSS twelve months after they have been received back from the clearing banks . |
| 18 | The new system , however , will be able to collect this tax and tax codes have been sent out by the tax office . |
| 19 | Last term 's fund-raising efforts have now raised £1,048 for the Leukaemia Research Fund — and two sacks of old postage stamps have been sent off to the Blue Peter Appeal in aid of Romanian children . |
| 20 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 21 | Its twin ponds , of some 3.5 acres , have been built over by the ‘ bus station and local shops . |
| 22 | To accommodate the overflow , five more offices [ including a conference room ] have been built out on the workshop above the canteen and locker area . |
| 23 | Jetties , piers and hides have been built out into the reeds and these make ideal observation platforms . |
| 24 | Above the Magnesian Limestone event a number of reflections have been tied in with the sequence in Larne-2 and Newmill-l . |
| 25 | Once all the useful substances have been absorbed back into the tree , the end of the leaf stalk is closed off and the leaf dies and falls . |
| 26 | The shift , if that 's what it is , mirrors the way shipments have been shaping up during the three months since they started . |
| 27 | Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole . |
| 28 | The latest straws in the wind have been blown in by the bank 's disposal of its merchant banking arm , Charterhouse , last week for £235 million . |
| 29 | Pyramids of paper have been piled up on the subject of faunal provinces in the fossil record , but very few of them stand up to critical examination and even the latest symposium on the subject has produced very little that can be regarded as concrete evidence . |
| 30 | From a purely philosophical point of view , teachers who have been cut off from the mainstream of educational activity should be helped to understand the dynamism that underlies a teacher 's personal development , the rapid changes in teaching situations and accepted methodologies , and also the changes which the target languages themselves are undergoing . |