Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This can still be a heavy burden where witnesses have died , or are overseas , or have been promised confidentiality .
2 I was playing against the West Indies and I scored eight off a Cummins over without hitting a four , and for Natal |I 've build some 80s and 90s that have been matchwinning performances , but this time I 've just got far too excited ’ .
3 Those that have been analysed show traces of at least 20 amino acids , including glycine and yaminobutyric acid , in quantities of a few nanomoles per gram .
4 Will the Minister confirm that , notwithstanding what the hon. Lady has said about the cluster of leukaemia in the vicinity of Thurso , all the scientific studies that have been done fail to prove any connection with work being done at Dounreay ?
5 My conclusions , expressed in the last chapter — ‘ Venice of the Twenty-First Century ? ’ — have been reinforced by the events that have been taking place in Eastern Europe since the autumn of 1989 .
6 Chapters 5 and 6 have discussed the changes that have been taking place in rural and urban areas and the effects these have had on social structure , poverty and inequality .
7 The changes that have been taking place in Latin America and the economic growth that the region has experienced have not brought about any redistribution of income in favour of the low-income groups , the trend has been if anything slightly towards a greater polarisation of wealth .
8 The decision was made last week at a planning process review the COSE people and the Open Software Foundation held April 7 at X/Open offices in Menlo Park , California , one of many meetings that have been taking place lately .
9 The decision was made last week at a planning process review the COSE people and the Open Software Foundation held on April 7 at the X/Open offices in Menlo Park , California , one of many meetings that have been taking place lately .
10 Europe is now experiencing the political consequences of several changes that have been taking place over the past few years .
11 The discussion in this chapter has so far not explicitly recognized the changes that have been taking place and will continue to take place in manufacturing methods .
12 In the time that I have to move the report I 'd like to concentrate on some of the developments that have been taking place in health and safety this is not to , er , give the impression that environmental developments are not important but over this next year the government are going to be taking certain measures that we need to be aware of , er , in the health and safety area .
13 perhaps in six months or in sixty years erm facing the same kind of problem again er I , I can erm I have close experience with a situation on my , on my own patch which rises from time to time an and is most unpleasant for the people in and it goes back if I might say so an and therefore the planning considerations that have been mentioned need to be paid attention to .
14 In particular , we fixed the last four of those fuel tankers that have been awaiting gearbox spares .
15 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 .
16 Six patients are still alive and have been undergoing tratment for 5.5–24 months ( median 15 months ) .
17 One suggestion is that there are , in fact , structural units of spoken discourse which take the form of ‘ speech paragraphs ’ and have been called paratones ( see Brown , 1977 : 86 ) .
18 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 .
19 Guest of honour was Pat Moody , a member of a local team of people who took aid to the orphanage and helped to refurbish it in May last year and have been charting progress there ever since .
20 Nor does it rely principally on my experience in classrooms , though I have been , briefly , a secondary schoolteacher and have been visiting schools and working with young people in a variety of ways on and off for the last sixteen years .
21 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 .
22 YOUNGSTERS in Northern Ireland smoke more , drink less and have been offered drugs more often than their British counterparts .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 Some of these , such as carbohydrate , fat and protein are needed in relatively large quantities and have been termed macronutrients .
26 United Nations weapons inspectors have arrived in Iraq but have been denied access to search government ministries .
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