Example sentences of "has [been] [verb] [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 John de Menil conceived the idea of a catalogue raisonné of the artist 's work then and asked David Sylvester to be its editor ; the Foundation has been supporting the project ever since .
2 The aim , then , has been to see the problem afresh , and a first reformulation of it was offered in Chapter iii .
3 ( He has been addressing the problem rather more seriously since his wife succumbed after breakfast on her way down the gangplank . )
4 Getting into your loft quickly and safely has been made a lot easier with the unique collection of aluminium and wooden ladders and staircases available from the Loft Shop .
5 Can I assist here ? the motion that has been mooted and the amendment has been proposed the amendment has been accepted the question now is whether what the the motion has been made and uh it is a matter for you to go to your suggested that certain members be allowed to speak at the end of the day it is a matter for you to decide uh control of the who is allowed to speak on that particular motion as amended of course
6 All endangered big game has been given a value so that poachers can be forced to pay compensation as well as serving up to six years in prison for killing the animals .
7 National Power has been given the go ahead for Didcot B , a 15 hundred mega watt gas fired power station
8 I have long held the view that there is a small clique whose real objective has been to close the airport regardless of any other consideration — it would be interesting to know why .
9 He said that the long-distance part of the network has been costing the government around £11m per year to run : ‘ It has been found by a continued process of review that it is no longer cost-effective for the government to continue running it itself , ’ he said .
10 If the patient has been seeing a physiotherapist privately , it still may be necessary to involve a second , specialist physiotherapist , if the patient stops progressing .
11 Whereas Nigeria followed the classic pattern of building large plants with the latest equipment , and then suffering from overcapacity , Togo has been operating a mini-mill profitably for some years and has begun to export to neighbouring countries , even those with large , underused plants of their own .
12 Keith Daniell has been watching the action there .
13 Despite the often flagrant commercialism of its rather lightweight extravaganzas , the Palais has been running a deficit well beyond its more than C$2 million annual subsidy from the city .
14 One of Kylie 's entourage , an aide and friend , explained : ‘ She has been studying the Atlas carefully for nearly two months , before she is ready to step on a soap box or address meetings .
15 This week news comes from Australia that this technique has been taken a stage further ( p 271 ) .
16 In Ulster the application of the theory has been taken a stage further and much effort has been spent , in addition , on ways to discredit and alienate non-terrorist opponents of the government from their host populations .
17 but the man who has been doing the work there who said he owned it
18 Most Saturdays , assuming he has been working the night before , Young is up by 10 am for breakfast with his wife and three children : two teenage boys and Hannah Harley , four , named after his beloved motorbike .
19 The council 's main reaction to Mr. Dear 's complaints of undermanning has been to cut the force even further .
20 ‘ I have observed he has been behaving a mite more realisti-cally since he 's had you in his life , my dear … .
21 He says the RSPCA has been following the case closely but it has to accept the court decision .
22 Local journalist Mike Stairs has been following the story closely , but says it was n't until the mid-'80s that it was given national attention .
23 The strategy over the past few years has been to establish the University more actively in research , whilst retaining its commitment to excellence in teaching .
24 In the 1980s , the tendency for political power to be concentrated at the centre has been carried a stage further by a prime minister sufficiently determined and resourceful to achieve a high level of dominance over her cabinet colleagues .
25 This attempt to ‘ define ’ by inclusions has been carried a stage further by the Financial Services Act which , for its purposes , employs both inclusions and exclusions .
26 And a mouse has been keeping the cat well amused .
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