Example sentences of "[vb base] be do [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they 've been done for many years |
| 2 | Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is |
| 3 | So System Ten is the culmination of several years of work that we 've been doing with other hardware and software vendors but most importantly with our customers . |
| 4 | out of what we 've been doing with this . |
| 5 | It depends first on what you 've been doing in those 29 years , whether you 're willing to get new skills if necessary , and finally , how persistent you are in your job search . |
| 6 | It is , however , possible that the experimental data would not be thought conclusive either ; most of the experiments that have been done of this type have been rather artificial ( Marsh 1985a ) . |
| 7 | Of course few quantitative studies have been done of this , but those that we have show pretty unmistakable results . |
| 8 | Experiments have been done with imposed wavenumbers outside this range , and some interesting instabilities observed by which the wavenumber adjusts to a stable value . |
| 9 | Surveys of radon in UK homes have been done since 1976 about 24000 homes will have been tested . |
| 10 | So , already , these things have been done as common sense in the past . |
| 11 | Studies have been done in small and large industrial organizations , banks , airlines , newspaper offices , broadcasting corporations , universities and hospitals . |
| 12 | The world is changing , and just because defence , nuclear energy and agricultural research have been done in certain ways in the past does not mean that that is the best way now . |
| 13 | Yet if they have been done in this way it means they have not been done ! |
| 14 | ‘ I do not wish to be hard upon poor people in great affliction ; but I can not help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls ‘ tempting God' ’ — staking their property and their lives upon the chances or no earthquakes coming , while they ought to have known that an earthquake might come an day . ’ |
| 15 | We are fighting to trade freely and openly within the law , as we have been doing for many years . |
| 16 | If inflation is too much money pursuing too few goods , it does not follow that we must — as we have been doing in this country — reduce the supply of money all the time and thus have the disastrous consequences for industry that have occurred . |