Example sentences of "[conj] has been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the " source " for a story dies , or is out of the country , or has been promised confidentiality , or goes back on what he said , the difficulties of proving the truth of a true statement may be too great . |
| 2 | A firm , such as a firm of accountants that has been appointed auditors to a company , can be an expert : see 3.4 . |
| 3 | Roy Mackintosh is MD of a local foundry that has been supplying Pringle 's with castings for many years . |
| 4 | What happens if we 've got an emergency situation and how come when you got about three or four different authorities to deal with that matter and the other thing that has been said people said it to me , the question of building and in some parts of West Sussex we 've got concrete jungles and that itself can cause flooding because water does n't drain would do through natural resources through its natural well drain away . |
| 5 | These cold statistics do not show one important trend that has been taking place since 1945 . |
| 6 | These are the sample from Greece that has been called Ouranopithecus macedoniensis by some , or synonymized with Graecopithecus freybergi by others , and the single maxilla from Samburu Hills which has not yet been named . |
| 7 | With the entire wealth of pop history on hand , the temptation is to indulge in the kind of free-for-all pick'n'mix that has been called retro-nuevo . |
| 8 | Amsterdam Travel Service Ltd is part of a City Specialist Group that has been arranging holidays for over 36 years and as a Professional Tour Operator undertakes to act with thoroughly professional care in arranging your holiday . |
| 9 | Some people may suggest that the absence of Ireland 's top three drivers might actually be a good thing for Cork , making it a much more competitive event , but it will do little to improve the profile of a rally that has been losing ground for the past few years . |
| 10 | Houseplants are good for you , according to Californian a laboratory that has been doing research for NASA into the use of plants in space . |
| 11 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 12 | However , as recently as last week , IBM is said to have realised that its shell technology does not comply with the Object Management Group CORBA specifications and has been urging HP to throw its OMG-compliant Distributed Object Management Facility into the pot . |
| 13 | However , as recently as last week , IBM is said to have realised that its shell technology does not comply with the Object Management Group Common Object Request Broker specifications and has been urging Hewlett-Packard to throw its Object Group-compliant Distributed Object Management Facility into the pot . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She 's twenty-three and has been nursing babies since she was fourteen . |
| 18 | LCH was incorporated as a company in 1888 and has been providing market services continuously for more than a century . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | W Bradford Wiley has retired as chairman of the board of John Wiley & Sons Inc , though he is continuing as director of the company , and has been named chairman emeritus . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A subject which is and has been explored time and time again by authors is a vision of the future . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But Mr Dare is plainly taking the threat of increased competition seriously and has been touring England and Wales to sell his ideas to farmers . |
| 25 | To save money it is moving out of London to Newport in South Wales and has been running roadshows to drum up business from industry . |
| 26 | He 's also a bit of a technophobe and has been having problems getting on the list . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The Koh Kong Zoo in Cambodia , for example , does n't exist , but has been exporting gibbons , orang-utans and douc langurs . |