Example sentences of "[noun prp] has been [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | We enclose a copy of this and we hope that you will find time to read it and see what CPRW has been up to during the past year . |
2 | In the UK , SelecTronics has been exclusively represented for over three years by Zeon , best known as a distributor of watches . |
3 | The Hercules has been there with the RAF and got on with the job . |
4 | He scored 12 goals in eight pre-season games but has not netted in the Premiership so far and his partnership with David Hirst has been deeply disappointing . |
5 | Neil MacDonald has been out in Chile meeting the leaders of the fishing community … |
6 | ‘ Patrizia Valesio has been here she claims that … ’ |
7 | And Mr Wilikins has been very helpful . |
8 | George Soloway has been so busy making money that he has been unable ‘ to commit himself to another human being ’ . |
9 | ALTHOUGH THE landscape of Sussex has been substantially modified by man , the basic geology and soil types still have an important bearing on the vegetation and crops , and hence the habitats available for birds now found in the county . |
10 | DEC has been ahead of the field in cultivating computer-aided drug design and other molecular modelling companies , and its latest is Waltham , Massachusetts-based Molecular Simulations Inc . |
11 | Here , the only water is from artesian wells , now contaminated by the industrial effluent and the huge garbage-dump , where the rubbish from Nova Iguacu has been partly ploughed back into the disturbed hillside . |
12 | ( The facts that Rousseau never used the phrase ‘ noble savage ’ , and that Hobbes has been widely misinterpreted are irrelevant here , since my concern is not with the conceptions that two seminal thinkers actually articulated , but is rather with the stereotyped dichotomous conceptions of human nature and human society that have come to be associated with their names . ) |
13 | Planted during the last week of September , Connie has been particularly pleased by the wallflowers progress after a generous feed with Vitax 6X fertiliser . |
14 | Like most works that are felt to mark some kind of watershed in the history of music , Peter Grimes has been heavily probed for , among other things , debts to and possible borrowings from the works of other composers . |
15 | Ross on Wye has been particularly badly hit by job losses during the recession . |
16 | Somerville has been enormously enriched over the past century by Somervillians remembering the College in their wills . |
17 | To date , major public transport and traffic planning investment in West Germany has been geographically concentrated in the major conurbations and city regions , for example Rhine-Ruhr , Rhine-Main , Stuttgart , Hamburg and Munich . |
18 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
19 | ‘ Your Grace , Master Corbett has been most busy . |
20 | FALLEN Wimbledon ace Bjorn Borg has been personally ordered to pay debts of almost £400,000 . |
21 | Saturday has been deliberately left free so that the ladies can do as they please , either in and around Peebles , or perhaps venture to ‘ Auld Reekie ’ , our beautiful capital city of Edinburgh . |
22 | McAllister , who had put the doll down , and was now fetching out her work basket to embroider pansies on some fine lawn dresses made for the bazaar by the aforesaid ladies , said , ‘ I did n't mean to become involved , you know , but Matey has been so kind to me — when not slave-driving me , you understand — that when she asked me to accompany her I had not the heart to refuse , and strangely , after I began to work for the bazaar , I found that it was most rewarding . ’ |
23 | I am afraid that by taking the extraordinary measure of stapling this report ‘ because some of the contents are so disturbing ’ , Amnesty has again given credence to the belief that recent torture in Kuwait has been more terrible than in any other part of the world , whereas the repugnant patterns of pain-infliction described are all too familiar from Iran , from Myanmar , Amin 's Uganda , a South America , South Africa etc . |
24 | Lisa Marie has been secretly recording demo tapes of songs she has written . |
25 | Mikhail Gorbachev has been under increasing pressure at home , especially in the Soviet army , to salvage what he can of the old Soviet-Iraqi friendship . |
26 | For a number of years now Berman has been almost as elusive as before his ‘ breakthrough ’ in the mid-1970s , and it is good to hear such a distinctive pianist now resuming activity . |
27 | Environmental and engineering geology In a project to investigate the engineering properties of poorly understood tropical red soils , fieldwork in Kenya and Indonesia has been largely completed , and additional samples have been obtained from Fiji and Dominica . |
28 | Manfred Ommer has been especially outspoken , even casting doubts on Stuttgart 's championship win . |
29 | Northamptonshire has been under Conservative control for the last eight years but it 's still tight . |
30 | Doug Scott has been there often over the past three decades . |