Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EURO Disney may be officially opening tomorrow , but tens of thousands of guests and Disney employees have been trying out the rides this week . |
| 2 | But all the way through this chapter I have been asserting just the contrary . |
| 3 | The Family Division of the High Court has jurisdiction to hear public law cases which have been transferred up the court system or issued at High Court level . |
| 4 | Cricket now … the amateur players of the Minor Counties have been taking on the game 's elite in the first round of the Nat West Trophy . |
| 5 | ‘ As a consequence of these deaths , the very highest levels have been cranking up the troops to find who did this . ’ |
| 6 | There and in its environs , this week , have been played out the shows of Kenneth Baker as Kenneth Branagh , Michael Heseltine as Alvin Stardust , and Geoffrey Howe as Geoffrey Howe . |
| 7 | There are three equipments that have been selected where the contracts have not actually yet been placed . |
| 8 | Now I want you to imagine you have been digging up the garden , ready for planting . |
| 9 | 20 years after Joan Main disappeared , police officers have been digging up the garden of her former husband 's house . |
| 10 | TOLERABLY familiar with a general election 's orchestration , I have been wondering why the music in this one is so unfamiliar . |
| 11 | As the elected representatives of governing bodies of Scottish sport we have been following closely the lottery bill 's progress through Parliament . |
| 12 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 13 | The Russian authorities have been playing down the severity of an explosion at the secret Tomsk-7 reprocessing plant in Siberia . |
| 14 | Madam Deputy Speaker I re read in the newspapers today that there has been s some criticism er that the matters such as this have been taken on the floor of the house . |
| 15 | Second , the axial spin rate of the Earth 4600 Ma ago can be estimated using the principle of conservation of angular momentum by giving the Earth all the present angular momentum of the Moon plus the orbital angular momentum of the Earth and the Moon around their centre of mass : the Earth spins nowhere near fast enough to have spun off lunar material and no very plausible means have been suggested whereby the Earth-Moon system could since have lost the necessarily copious amount of angular momentum . |
| 16 | As this representation is difficult for the draughtsman to interpret , mesh lines have been inserted down the front and side view axis ( to give Figure 6.23 ) . |
| 17 | Electronic bite alarms have been invented so the fishermen do n't have to even watch a float . |
| 18 | Technological developments have been used down the ages to fragment jobs and de-skill workers , they claim . |
| 19 | There 's the nucleus of a very good side here , the young lads have been brought up the Lyall way . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The banks have been giving away the savings market to the building societies since the 1950s , ’ he says , ‘ but we have now proved large numbers of people will save with us . |
| 21 | " Instead of the children of the working class being subjected to rigorous self-denial in preparation for a life-time in mill or mine , " he writes , " they have been offered instead the promise of the easy and immediate gratification which , in the end , can sabotage human development and achievement just as effectively as the poverty and hunger of the past . " |
| 22 | Teachers have been clearing up the mess and the headmaster says some lessons will be held in a nearby school later this week . |
| 23 | Some Opposition Members have been talking down the region . |
| 24 | have pointed out that if it is feasible and believable for entrants to write firm ( but presumably secret ) contracts with customers for delivery over some fixed time period in the future , then the third and fourth conditions have been circumvented yet the result is the same . |