Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " 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 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 5 | We have been influenced here by the consideration that there are a number of discretionary trusts of long standing where tax avoidance was not the main motive in the settlor 's mind when he established the trust . |
| 6 | The differential impact of national and industry environmental forces upon the structure , process and outcomes of industrial relations have been examined empirically for the important metalworking industry across five countries . |
| 7 | Up to the commencement of school life , the major gratifications of the child in its interactions with others have been based largely on the overt and tacit approval of its parents its activities have been categorised in part according to the extent by which maternal and paternal love has waxed or waned as a result of them . |
| 8 | Therefore , to avoid any confusion , the interpretations have been based solely on a comparison of the rates charged for Cessna 150/152s , as these make up about 45 per cent of the aircraft offered for the purpose of basic training or hire . |
| 9 | Some bureaux have been invited in by the probation or education departments or by the prison governor . |
| 10 | We have a great deal of sympathy er but whereas I do n't think some of the ideas that have been floated tonight for a Cornwall and Gibraltar West seat er or erm any kind of link up between Cornwall and any tail end of a Welsh seat we do n't think is practical and I think he 's got ta solve this problem er within the confines of Cornwall being regarded as part of England if not Anglo Saxon . |
| 11 | Although neither have been cited directly in the text , the philosophical ideas in this chapter have been heavily influenced by the work of Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn . |
| 12 | THE glow of recognition will be sweet for those who have been singled out in the New Year Honours list . |
| 13 | From the first , our meteorite collecting programmes have been motivated not for the sake of numbers alone but by the hope that large quantities of fragments would include samples of rare or completely new type of meteorites . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring on beaches at Sellafield have been stepped up following the discovery of a grass-like substance . |
| 16 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 17 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 18 | Skeletal remains of the earliest ( middle Carnian ) dinosaurs are rare and have been unearthed mostly from the fossiliferous Upper Triassic Ischigualasto Formation in northwestern Argentina . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | I have argued elsewhere that these ideological failures have been compounded firstly by a reductive conception of culture and secondly by a culturalist conception of race and ethnic identity ( Gilroy , 1987 ) . |
| 21 | It is a matter of regret , indeed something of a disgrace , that the spending plans have been announced today in the House when there is still no Scottish Select Committee to scrutinise what the Scottish Office is doing . |
| 22 | Not all farm workers have been affected equally by the new technology and certain aspects of working on the land have remained almost untouched by it . |
| 23 | In the UK , attempts to gain greater value for money have been related more to the present depressed economic climate than any need to provide for the wider accountability of government expenditure . |
| 24 | The relevant texts have been deposited along with the presidency conclusions . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Stories have been rejected outright for the simple reason that they were ‘ too middle-class ’ , though one editor was constructive enough to suggest the writer might want to replace ballet and riding classes with swimming and gymnastics . |
| 27 | I have been blotted out from the world . |
| 28 | In recent years , employment prospects have been excellent and geographers have been placed successfully in a wide range of employment in research , industry , commerce , government , and the professions , either entering directly or by using their first degrees as a foundation for further qualifications . |
| 29 | ‘ If you were brought up in Brixton or Hackney , and have been stopped regularly for no reason by the police , you are bound to view them with a bit of hatred ’ … . |
| 30 | As a power in the land , America 's unions have been fading fast since the 1970s . |