Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a heroic act of rescue , splendidly documented , has been done all the same . |
| 2 | That support is available in the Scottish Office and has been tried and tested in the work that has been done supporting the central institutions . |
| 3 | Latin American art has been undergoing such a review both from within Latin America itself and from elsewhere , with several exhibitions and books on the subject in the last few years in Europe and the US . |
| 4 | He thinks , by the sheer fact of not playing on something , his contribution has been to leave all the space for everybody else . |
| 5 | His signal achievement at Chanel has been to take all the familiar Chanel ideas , the neat , gilt buttoned suit , the chain handbags , the bows , the camellias , throw them up in the air , alter their proportions , and re-make the look invented by Coco for Twenties flappers , so that it strikes a new chord . |
| 6 | Siemens AG has been having such a tough time in the former Soviet Union with its nuclear safety and telecommunications projects that it has been cutting back and recalling expatriates early ( CI No 2,043 ) , but Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG does have some work . |
| 7 | The Disability Alliance has been proposing such a scheme for nearly two decades . |
| 8 | One source said : ’ She has been rewriting all the Prime Minister 's press releases . |
| 9 | The best , Polydor 's Lambada Brazil , consists almost exclusively of Brazilian , not French , lambada stars and includes a couple of tracks by the wonderful Margareth Menezes , who has been making such an impact performing with Byrne . |
| 10 | The other reason for looking for an approximate solution is that once it has been found such an approximate solution can then be worked upon and modified to give a much better solution . |
| 11 | One approach to the problem has been to list all the various kinds of non-business organizations , pointing out their political , economic , and social differences , and then build the accounting theories from there . |
| 12 | It has been happening all the time and , with respect to the hon. Gentleman , it has been happening constantly . |
| 13 | When her brother had looked likely to become a chip off the old block , he 'd been given all the support of a loving father intent on realising his own dreams through his son . |
| 14 | He 'd been smoking 50 a day for 40 years . |
| 15 | Apparently he 'd been telling all the other English teachers about it and now they all wanted their classes to see and hear about Hadwick 's owl . |
| 16 | I 'd been leading such a rackety life — Edouard , you ca n't imagine . |
| 17 | When I came out , wearing the least horrid of the shirts he 'd bought for me , he stood up ( he 'd been sitting all the time by the door ) . |
| 18 | How long he 'd been sleeping rough no one could tell . |
| 19 | She 'd been feeling sick a morning or two , but not so as it interfered with her work , and no one remarked on it . |
| 20 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 21 | It is widely believed that if Labour 's national executive had acted on his report in the mid-1970s about the need to root out Militant Tendency from within the party , then the movement would have been saved all the subsequent turmoil in the 1980s , by which time Militant had gained a grip . |
| 22 | A question that puzzled some followers of Zarathustra in later times was that , if Ohrmazd was all-powerful and so destined to overthrow Ahriman , why did this not happen immediately , so that the world would have been spared all the suffering caused by the conflict between them ? |
| 23 | Better practice would have been to discharge such a patient on a Monday and monitor her progress daily , to forestall a weekend crisis . |
| 24 | If however , there was no open way remaining , then the rising main must have been brought all the way up to the top of the shaft . |
| 25 | Could we have been hoodwinked all the way ? |
| 26 | The violent , dangerous and delinquent youth of the magistrates and NAS were also present in the statements of individual Chief Constables and representatives of the Police Federation who articulated publicly their own theories on the causes of crime in a manner which would have been thought unthinkable a few years previously . |
| 27 | He should have been doing this a year or two ago , in the hope that extra jobs would have been created before now . |
| 28 | He was dead to the world , so deeply asleep that she wondered what on earth he could have been doing half the night . |
| 29 | The project director , Marilyn Standley , commented : ‘ The building is being designed to reflect the personality and concerns of the company and its staff , and we are delighted at having been awarded such a high environmental score . ’ |
| 30 | We would n't have chosen to move back into town at this time , but having been offered such a good space , we did n't want to turn it down . |