Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the biggest problems facing task forces has been collecting accurate data . |
| 2 | Ken Lax has been appointed industrial sales manager of Stockton-based cathodic protection manufacturer , Wilson Walton International . |
| 3 | ‘ The overall effect has been to sustain apparent sales volumes and reduce work in progress . |
| 4 | The Disabled Drivers Association has been helping disabled people since 1948 , and all donations are used explicitly for the benefit of disabled people . |
| 5 | Ever since , she has been delighting deaf people she encounters by communicating in their own language . |
| 6 | An important function of the private presses has been to reprint rare works of historical and literary importance . |
| 7 | The primary aim of the project has been to utilise micro data sets in the rigorous empirical decisions in the presence of credit market imperfections . |
| 8 | His secret has been to approach ordinary people about non-controversial issues . |
| 9 | The team has been scrutinising new data collected during April , and last week they found one proton-antiproton collision recorded in their apparatus which bears the hallmarks of a Z o . |
| 10 | ‘ There is no doubt that Charles has been offered major works at good prices ’ , says one dealer , ‘ because people wanted to see those works in his great collection ; artists have sold him paintings that they would not have sold to anyone else , and they feel betrayed . ’ |
| 11 | The purpose of the trials has been to obtain raw data which must be assembled and evaluated to provide a basis for comparison . |
| 12 | One of the aims of Britain 's health and social services for the past 40 years has been to help old people to live in their own homes . |
| 13 | Panic may often set in , with the fishkeeper not really knowing what to do and wondering whether it 's his fault , or if he has been sold sick fish . |
| 14 | That would only be necessary if the troops had been requisitioning other people 's equipment . |
| 15 | We got specific money , in other words , the government flagged up that in the first year , there were going to be infrastructure costs , and so there was a specific allowance made for that , and we 've been recruiting gradually , not all at once , over a period of time , as the numbers of people coming into the community care system rise , we 've been recruiting new staff there . |
| 16 | I know you 've been told different people different things . |
| 17 | EC Commission vice-president , Sir Leon Brittan , has promised the European Parliament that he will investigate claims that the Italian authorities have been using unfair means to acquire public control of the Italian chemical industry . |
| 18 | They say gangs of youngsters have been targeting elderly people in the town centre and stealing purses from them . |
| 19 | Oswald and his wife Jenny have been selling wet fish from their stall for 45 years . |
| 20 | I have been keeping tropical fish for some twenty years , but for the last two months I have been cursed with a problem which I can not solve . |
| 21 | I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria . |
| 22 | I am fourteen years old and I have been keeping fancy Goldfish for about a year now . |
| 23 | But the International Air Tattoo does n't just help those who 've served with the RAF — for the past ten years it 's been helping disabled people learn to fly . |