Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [been] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Ropes has been examining the 80-year-old bridge and in a report to Cleveland County Council says 18 large bolts need to be replaced . |
| 2 | Degas ' sculpture is on the move : literally , in the sense that a complete set of the artist 's bronzes has been travelling the world for the past five years , turning up in Verona , Florence , Amsterdam and Japan ; metaphorically , in a sudden resurgence of interest in the sculptures themselves , after more than four decades of academic neglect . |
| 3 | A hard core of nine fell walkers has been keeping the Company flag flying across the country . |
| 4 | This web of relationships has been called the role-set . |
| 5 | One consequence of the recent shift in patterns of provision introduced to combat falling rolls and to widen educational/vocational opportunities has been to highlight the different sizes found there . |
| 6 | But the court 's discretion under this rule only arises if the applicant has sought a declaration , an injunction or damages ; and even if one of these remedies has been claimed the court may , in cases raising complex factual issues , refuse to exercise the discretion in the applicant 's favour on the basis that it would be better if the case were started afresh by writ . |
| 7 | Perhaps the greatest mistake in the application of GIS has been to allow the glamour of the technology to distract attention from the more mundane , yet vital , aspects of data acquisition and verification . |
| 8 | Once the special character combinations had been replaced the file was iteratively refined . |
| 9 | The Secte Rouge guards had been charging the Marines with their machetes , to little effect , though a couple of Marines had gone down . |
| 10 | One of the first rules of house and hall parties had been to scout the building for dark corners that might make useful retiring-places if the evening went well — preference was given to anywhere that had a lock on the inside . |
| 11 | After a dress rehearsal for a Symphony Hour show , I suggested , as producer , that in the adagio movement of the main symphonic item the violins had been taking the tempo slightly too fast . |
| 12 | Charlemagne thought that the Byzantine emperors had been denied the Roman empire , which had been conferred on him instead ( 800 ) , because they had shown the pride of Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon , not least in allowing images of themselves to be idolatrously venerated . |
| 13 | When all the books had been read the local reader lost interest . |
| 14 | But the scale of the tragedy exposed by Michael Buerk and his BBC camera crew , and the response it provoked in the no-bullshit , energetic , passionately caring rock musician Bob Geldof meant that old-world attitudes towards the plight of helpless peoples have been given the biggest jolt since the anti-slavery campaigns of the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | First , the Velikovskians have been given the chance to make a superficially plausible claim that there is some kind of ‘ orthodox-science ’ vendetta against them and against their master' : they have been able to portray themselves as persecuted martyrs . |
| 16 | Many , if not most , good teachers are suffering from fatigue and innovation stress ; almost all teachers in state schools are profoundly resentful at the way that they and their schools have been made the scapegoats for the ills of society . |
| 17 | Journalists have been asking the question since he was , well , 23 . |
| 18 | Thirty-two acres of the old Swanage quarries have been designated the Townsend Nature Reserve by the Dorset Naturalists ' Trust . |
| 19 | Some US dairy farming organizations have been urging the FDA to ban BST for some time . |
| 20 | The major industrial nations have been lowering the energy intensity of their economies since the 1970s ; the degree to which this will continue is central to any energy consumption projection . |
| 21 | In the past week any number of interested parties have been granted the 30 second television sound bite in order to voice an opinion or two about the way English should be taught in our schools . |
| 22 | And the worst branches have been given the , the , the stiffer targets to get them up to scratch . |
| 23 | LAURENCEKIRK , Turriff and East Wemyss Branches have been voted the best in Scotland — and the best in Britain — by Royal Bank customers . |
| 24 | Manufacturers have been oiling the wheels of technology to make fryers slicker with the help of computerisation . |
| 25 | Supporters have been visiting the new hospice premises at Harewood House where a very successful coffee morning was attended by over 100 people . |
| 26 | A growing queue of upper-crust drinkers have been seeking the heady relief at the ‘ gentlemen 's pharmacy ’ , D R Harris & Co , of St James 's in London — chemist to the Queen Mother . |
| 27 | Police and charity commissioners investigating the disappearance of thousands of pounds of funds have been meeting the trustee who raised the alarm . |
| 28 | As a result , hundreds of would-be joystick junkies have been climbing the walls with frustration , as the only compatible datarecorders that have been available lately are of the decidedly dodgy import variety and wo n't work with many games — especially budget releases . |
| 29 | THE RISE and rise of Tranmere Rovers has been given the Saint 's blessing . |
| 30 | A woman who has shivered through two winters and still faced large gas bills has been told the wrong meter was being read . |