Example sentences of "and [verb] been [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’ |
| 2 | He is a member of the new SCOTVEC Board , and has been appointed Chairman of the new Qualifications and Marketing Committee , and is presently a member of the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum . |
| 3 | It estimates it will need about £200,000 and has been pledged £65,000 by the millionaire property developer Godfrey Bradman , chairman of the society 's Education Research Trust . |
| 4 | this has inaugurated a new kind of critical atmosphere and has been gathering conviction at the institutional and managerial level just as much as in the studios and in the discussions around art . |
| 5 | During that time BP has held a small interest in offshore block 8 and has been designated operator for onshore Cabinda Central block , where operations have been suspended for security reasons . |
| 6 | My right hon. Friend will be aware that HMS Norfolk — the first of the Duke class — has been accepted into the fleet and has been completing work-up at Portland . |
| 7 | McEvoy , 39 , is back on the amateur circuit after being chosen as England captain , and has been having lessons for the first time ‘ to stimulate my game . ’ |
| 8 | As a result of working on these matters , the Legal Services Committee has prepared a series of papers and has been preparing advice on the steps the profession needs to consider taking in the future in relation to such issues as direct access , partnerships , split fees , cab rank rule and how to compete with solicitors in a brave new world . |
| 9 | Captain Humphreys ' company Marine Archeological Recovery Ltd has retrieved items from June 1988 onwards and has been consigning items for sale at auction since that date . |
| 10 | The 21 year old had been treated for depression and had been prescribed tablets by his doctor on 15 occasions . |
| 11 | Col. Jean-Baptiste Bagaza , who had come to power in a coup in 1976 , and had been elected President by direct suffrage in August 1984 , was overthrown in early September 1987 in a bloodless armed forces coup led by Maj. Pierre Buyoya [ see pp. 35631-32 ] . |
| 12 | Michael had had pain in his back for years , and had been receiving treatment for it . |
| 13 | For example , on the crucial question of the medical condition of the evacuees , which was to cause so much controversy , the Board of Education believed that local authorities had been adequately warned that pediculosis ( head lice ) would be a problem and had been given instructions on how to disinfect children by the use of steam baths ; also that its memorandum Ev . |
| 14 | It further alleged that he had been a ‘ fifth columnist ’ working for the Army in west Belfast in the 1970s , and had been given immunity by the RUC to carry a gun and carry out robberies . |
| 15 | As in the first survey , over 90 per cent of the opioid users attending Wirral 's main two facilities for drug users were daily users of heroin , and had been using heroin for between six months and five years . |
| 16 | She had guessed that the reason was something to do with Jennifer for she had known that her sister had n't been well for some while and had been undergoing tests since experiencing stabbing pain in her right eye and numbness in her legs . |
| 17 | But all she saw was slow , repeated , stumbling , coughing killings at which she retched in a very conventional English animal-loving way , which upset Monsieur Grimaud , who was an aficionado , and had been lecturing Frederica on the provenance and meaning of that word . |
| 18 | Another fake defector operating at the same time was Top Hat ( whose real name remains unknown ) , who also planted a lot of false information on the West through the Americans but did in 1965 expose the spy Frank Bossard , who worked in the Missile Guidance Branch at the Air Ministry and had been selling secrets to the GRU for some while . |
| 19 | Mendy said he would be backed by a consortium — so far un-named — of professional sports people and had been guaranteed £100,000 in his first year , £200,000 in his second and £500,000 in the third . |
| 20 | Meanwhile a young infantry soldier who had fought in the trenches and had been taken prisoner of war was putting the finishing touches to a philosophical treatise that was to bring traditional philosophy crashing down about its ears . |
| 21 | The crux of Sting 's accusation , however , was that he had suffered from ‘ inequality of bargaining power ’ which is to say , that he had not had proper legal advice when signing the deal , and had been taken advantage of by Virgin . |
| 22 | Ligachev , for instance , argued in a speech in June 1987 that the ‘ class enemy ’ was hoping that perestroika would undermine the influence of Marxist-Leninist ideology in the USSR and had been making use of it to spread ‘ irresponsible demagogy , hostile to the interests of the toilers ’ . |
| 23 | I live in Galway and have been supporting Leeds since 1977–1978 when I think we finished 5th in the first , endured the bad 80 's and have mostly enjoyed the 90's though a couple more trophies would n't go astray . |
| 24 | Six patients are still alive and have been undergoing tratment for 5.5–24 months ( median 15 months ) . |
| 25 | If this seems to be something you are interested in , and you are between 30 and 55 , and have been earning £30K plus , then Philip Glennon will guarantee you an interview , to talk this through further . |
| 26 | None of these Athenian Doric temples had carved metopes , but fine big relief-slabs from the Acropolis ( fig. 40 ) seem architectural and have been thought part of a continuous frieze from the Peisistratid temple , like that of the fifth-century Parthenon . |
| 27 | The departments in question have been informed , in writing , to cease making payments in the above circumstances , and have been offered assistance from the Employee Relations Section during the consultation process . |
| 28 | Bolton 's letters ( The Letters of an English Merchant in Madeira , 1695–1714 ) are preserved and have been published part in book form and part in duplicated form . |