Example sentences of "have been drive " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 2 | To anyone who has been driving on the planet earth within the last 75 years , they are just the same . |
| 3 | As Mary recovered at home in neighbouring Bakewell yesterday , husband Harold , 85 , a retired engineer , said : ‘ Mary has been driving for 17 years , and is very good . |
| 4 | Global competition in the automobile industry has been driving out many of the smaller firms . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | For he is the kind of man who has been driving women round the bend for generations . |
| 7 | However , I am confident that the European Community will continue to progress in the direction in which it has been driving — and rightly so — for the benefit of all our citizens and citizens on the mainland of Europe . |
| 8 | Reubens Barrichello has been driving competitively since he was six . |
| 9 | Richard , who is unemployed , has been driving since he was 17 and said he had a clean licence . |
| 10 | Consumer spending has been driving the economy out of recession this year , but the recovery is patchy and the Chancellor will scrutinise the last detail of every economic statistic in the next month , before he decides whether he can risk raising taxes on November the Thirtieth . |
| 11 | Channel 5 Everyone wants more choice , and Channel 5 has been driven by technological developments . |
| 12 | Three or four pamphlets and books have attacked ‘ the pernicious myth of monarchy ’ , but serious discussion of the usefulness or otherwise of the royal family has been driven out by simpering nonsense from a pack of tabloid reporters who devote their not inconsiderable imaginations to dreaming up new twists to a comic-strip family drama with a cast-list now augmented by half-a-dozen non-royal spouses and their families . |
| 13 | She thinks photography has been driven into an isolationist role : how right she is . |
| 14 | Enterprise has been driven away by high business rates and high domestic rates . |
| 15 | The proliferation of business information sources has been driven by the increasing ease with which information can be made publicly available through advances in IT , and of course by the availability of cash to purchase those resources . |
| 16 | According to this analysis the existing municipal culture is one which stresses uniform provision , with little choice for the consumer and which has been driven largely by the demands of the producers . |
| 17 | By letting the property market lead , the industrial sector has been ignored and on many occasions existing industry has been driven out or left to die . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , Riddler has to fight off the attentions of Seemore , a vagrant who has been driven mad with desire for her body . |
| 19 | ‘ The impetus for change has been driven by the charities rather than the City , but the City recognised this and has sought to make the most of it . ’ |
| 20 | NO wonder Princess Diana has been driven to desperate measures . |
| 21 | This has been driven by the users according to Sumner , who dislike the mess and complication of involved in linking and managing multiple applications . |
| 22 | Simulator development has been driven by technology rather than by the behavioural sciences with the standard result that there is a high reliance on face validity with relatively little resource devoted to systematic evaluation . |
| 23 | The second is a historical observation , that during the thirty years or so since the first observations of single cell response properties in the visual systems of mammals , our understanding of how the visual system works has been driven as much by theoretical developments in the psychology of perception as the other way round . |
| 24 | Similarly , much recent analysis of the impact of technical change on labour relations has been concerned to show how technical innovation has been driven by the need of employers to ‘ deskill ’ the workforce in order to control the ‘ workprocess ’ and extract the maximum rate of profit from labour [ Friedman , 1977 ] . |
| 25 | Paul Trowbridge , UK marketing manager with SynOptics Communications Inc , said that he can understand Proteon 's viewpoint , and believes that APPI development has been driven by the financing questions surrounding APPN . |
| 26 | IBM has been driven into the System V camp by customer demands in the US federal government and the telecommunications industry , and the IBM Federal Systems Co is helping Harris out with the work . |
| 27 | Although it is based on a mudane Chrysler Concorde saloon , the two-seater version looks like it has been driven straight off the set of ‘ American Graffiti ’ . |
| 28 | IBM has been driven into the SVR4 camp by customer demands in the US federal government and the telecommunications industry , and the IBM Federal Systems Co is helping Harris out with the work . |
| 29 | San Jose-based Tatung Science & Technology Inc has been driven by Sun Microsystems Inc into cutting prices on its own Sparc-based workstation line , and as a result , it says it now offers a 40MHz system at $5,990 and a full range of colour systems at less than $5,000 . |
| 30 | Equally , however , it has been driven from within the organisation by reducing beds , shutting old hospitals , or transforming them into nursing homes , and concentrating high technology investment in a small number of centres , well equipped and well staffed . |