Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [verb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Master Gates , he came home a war hero and has been enjoying the fruits of his fame ever since . ’ |
| 2 | Since the tragedy , the Swindon Bus Company has been ferrying the children across town . |
| 3 | Now , he finds people are beginning to be more open about their sexuality , and consequently he has been promoting the activities of the centre for sexual problems in Istanbul . |
| 4 | The Neon Tetra ( Paracheirodon innesi ) is one of the most popular aquarium fish and has been topping the charts since the 1930s . |
| 5 | But he has been learning the ropes since February with Liverpool Playhouse workshop . |
| 6 | Once this has been done the terms must be put in order of energy . |
| 7 | Another disciple of Nostradamus , S. O. Letterman , has been throwing the pebbles in LA and finds the omens good . |
| 8 | Wherever land has been colonised the Indians have lost much of their land . |
| 9 | For days Mr Hurd has been criticising the Israelis for the harsh treatment of the Palestinians , so it was only politic of the government here to invite him to the Yadvashim memorial to the Holocaust . |
| 10 | In policy areas ranging from mental illness to community nursing to staff development , the Welsh health service has been taking the plaudits . |
| 11 | Part of my job as your representative has been to put the views and ideas offered by you , the teacher , to the organising committees of the Society . |
| 12 | Princess Anne has been to see the inmates at work … behind bars . |
| 13 | Until 1988 it was known as the Archbishop of Canterbury 's Certificate , but as it is now open to Roman Catholics has been renamed the Archbishops ' Certificate ( ACertCM ) . |
| 14 | Malvern Hills college has been given a years notice to leave the buildings — but they 're hoping public support will make the council have a change of heart . |
| 15 | This is simply watching the patient who has been given the medicines . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Council leader Chris Foote Wood , meanwhile , has been outlining the terms under which Wear Valley will help the district 's four Northern League clubs . |
| 18 | Neil Dryer , who is in his last year of an HND catering course , has been overseeing the entertainments side . |
| 19 | The financial services industry , in common with many other industries , has been experiencing the problems , of rationalisation , restructuring and shrinkage . |
| 20 | That way , at least , he might have discouraged the impression that the Government 's abiding concern in this sorrowful matter has been to defend the actions of the state at their most indefensible . |
| 21 | Richard North , a local environmental health officer who has been advising the nuns , said that contamination of eggs through the shell via the faeces had never been considered a serious risk either by the working party who had submitted evidence to the Select Committee on Salmonella in Eggs , or by the Public Health Service Laboratories . |
| 22 | Inspector Tilley , who has been counselling the parents , added : ‘ There are no winners in this case , only losers . |
| 23 | As has been seen the courts prefer , where possible , to give these rights a contractual basis ( see Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 729 ) . |
| 24 | Ignoring Matilda , he turned to his son and said , ‘ I 'm always glad to buy a car when some fool has been crashing the gears so badly they 're all worn out and rattle like mad . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Perhaps the most useful contribution has been to extend the boundaries of community care and to demonstrate , through pilot projects , that innovative and imaginative kinds of provision can succeed . |
| 27 | Self taught , Albert , who is a relative of George Barron , of BBC TV 's Beechgrove Garden fame , has been tending the gardens for 16 years and has been a consistent winner in the gardens competition over the years . |
| 28 | Thus for those choosing to work with vertebrates , the tendency has been to abandon the mazes and skinner boxes of earlier generations of psychologists in favour of classical conditioning of very simple reflexes ( such as heart-rate or eye-blink ) in rabbits , where the neural circuitry can be reasonably clearly mapped . |
| 29 | ‘ Sounds like the record company has been writing the stories again . |
| 30 | Austria 's smallest and most westerly province , bordering on the Tryol , Lichtenstein , Switzerland and Germany , Vorarlberg has been dubbed The Children 's Wonderland . |