Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the manager CastleCourt , Belfast 's best known glass complex , says his building has been given the all-clear following tests . |
| 2 | This may occur at the exposed soil surface as raindrops selectively erode fine clay particles , leaving heavier sand particles : with time this process can affect deeper parts of the soil profile , impairing its water-retaining capacity to such an extent that even after agriculture has been abandoned the forest may be unable to recolonise . |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp has been banging the drum for its forthcoming Windows New Technology operating system in Europe and says it has won ‘ broad support ’ for it from ICL Plc , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG . |
| 4 | Unisys Corp has been lifting the curtain a little on its plans for the Unix-based U6000 range , as it boosted the power of its 486-based 6000/35 model by adding a 66MHz chip last week . |
| 5 | One of our little birds claims IBM Corp has been negotiating the sale of its PC division . |
| 6 | The new chart has been given the thumbs up by Food Records Andy Ross , whose acts ( including Blur and Jesus Jones ) are exempt from the current chart . |
| 7 | In some cases , such as the BBC 's , though damage has been done the library , surviving still , has critical mass and is usable . |
| 8 | Once sample preparation has been completed the simplest analyses may be performed on the largest particles . |
| 9 | In any starting position , when the basis for change has been created the decision as to which stage should be contemplated is the key one . |
| 10 | OVER the past few days , The Scotsman has been examining the evidence for a so-called ‘ moral crisis ’ in Britain . |
| 11 | Few strategists would gainsay the primacy of the First Pillar — the defence of the British Isles — upon which the sovereignty of the realm depends ; though , paradoxically , the United Kingdom has usually been so secure behind its sea walls that Home Defence has been accorded the lowest allocation of resources . |
| 12 | He had studied the plays exhaustively , and published in 1765 a new edition whose Preface has been called the most famous Shakespearean essay ever written . |
| 13 | Where creating UK income is not an immediate concern , the usual response has been to put the intangible into a tax haven and charge royalties from there . |
| 14 | Unfortunately yet again the servicer has been denied the adequate resources available to implement decent care . |
| 15 | The statue has been named The Yomper , but the photograph was taken after the Battles of Mount Harriet and Two Sisters which followed the yomp across the island . |
| 16 | The move should help stimulate economies on the continent where recession has been weakening the market for British exports . |
| 17 | Where a guardian ad litem has been appointed the solicitor must take instructions from the guardian . |
| 18 | A man who became a shareholder of an insurance company just to pursue a claim of negligence has been lobbying the company 's annual meeting . |
| 19 | Atomstyle has been supplying the various bits for building PCs to dealers for quite some time by now , and so the cases and motherboards it supplies fit together really well . |
| 20 | When the required function has been selected the menu rolls back up into the menu bar leaving the screen clear . |
| 21 | The University has been pursuing the details of its IT strategy and in 1992–3 , following extensive consultation , it has settled on the framework for the technical elements of this , the principle of which is distributed computing using a client-server model . |
| 22 | With plans afoot for the redevelopment of part of the Cretan Knossos estate of Sir Arthur Evans , close by his former house the Villa Ariadne , a team from Birmingham University has been given the go-ahead for a new excavation . |
| 23 | As part of a national sponsorship managed through WWF , the Central Electricity Generating Board has been funding the key conservation post of warden for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Naturalists ' Trust . |
| 24 | One of the key developments for the Board has been to prioritise the role of marketing . |
| 25 | Compressor supplier Atlas Copco 's Washington branch has been awarded the quality accreditation BS5750 . |
| 26 | The tendency in the historical literature has been to dismiss the number of homeworkers during the 1900s as insignificant , but the numbers of women employed in casual tasks are extremely difficult to estimate . |
| 27 | Endoscopic ultrasound has been considered the best procedure for assessing the preoperative staging of oesophageal carcinoma but few studies have considered its efficacy in evaluating the response to chemo or radiotherapy . |
| 28 | The Severn Auxilliary Rescue Association has been helping the police search the River Severn and surrounding areas . |
| 29 | From the number of lengthy interviews she has given in recent weeks , it seems pretty obvious that the opposition has been playing the Prime Minister 's game — she clearly intended to hold an election next month . |
| 30 | Ever since 1986 , when the Wyoming Game and Fish Department took the last black-footed ferret from the wild and placed it in a captive-breeding programme , the intention has been to reintroduce the species to the prairies of Wyoming as soon as enough individuals had been bred . |