Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Pozsgay has been written off many times . |
| 2 | The double volume , Ogwen & Carneddau , will hopefully be in the shops by Easter ; Llanberis , at the time of writing , has much of the text complete , thanks to Iwan Arfon Jones , and Paul Williams has been rounding up all the loose ends . |
| 3 | Over the years industrial capitalist society has been casting off many of the more obvious outward signs of inner distress . |
| 4 | Well the Boat Race has been livened up this year with the publication of True Blue . |
| 5 | Though he descended , was made low , now He has been raised up high . |
| 6 | They have to take account not only of local white vested interests , but , more importantly , of foreign and multinational capital which controls a substantial proportion of its industries , though the government has been buying out some foreign , especially South African , firms . |
| 7 | The Agnes has been picking up various cargoes from North African and some West African ports . |
| 8 | It is just that being shown into the library , which has been shut up these many years , perhaps brought it home to me how very sad it was for … ’ |
| 9 | In this case the excitation sequence has been jumped back two steps ( = half the total sequence of four steps ) and the step counter contents must be adjusted . |
| 10 | Bea , 68 , wants to move to London from Hollywood , and has been trying out future homes over here . |
| 11 | Rather than making the observations that were originally planned , the telescope has been trying out various options to see what is possible , and at the same time producing pictures and results to reassure the public that all is not lost . |
| 12 | In Great Britain there is no such force , and the gap has been filled in recent years by a militarization of the police force . |
| 13 | The object of the present discussion has been to point out some of those characteristics and examine some of the questions arising in relation to interpretation . |
| 14 | As has been pointed out many times in the past , sport is n't played on paper , it 's played on grass . |
| 15 | Over on the brown stuff , Andy Barker has been seeking out those remaining gems . |
| 16 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been sending out some rather confusing messages of late with regard to its position over the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment — DCE — initiative , which is more or less completely opposite to its own Open Network Computing , ONC environment . |
| 17 | VULCAN B.2 XM602 has been sectioned up ready for a move away from RAF St Athan , Wales . |
| 18 | Since February he has been snapping up American commercial property . |
| 19 | Where Newco acquires Target , this does not of itself terminate any contract of employment between Target and its employees , but it is with a view to rationalising the business after it has been bought out that Target may decide to terminate certain contracts of employment ; Newco may also be seeking to vary the terms of employment of certain directors and employees . |
| 20 | Global competition in the automobile industry has been driving out many of the smaller firms . |
| 21 | Most notably , the concept of ‘ social control ’ has been taken over wholesale by radical criminologists with little apparent sense of embarrassment ( see Cohen , 1995 ) — but for radicals ‘ social control ’ is usually a term of abuse denoting capitalist repression . |
| 22 | No legislative action has been taken on either recommendation . |
| 23 | No action has been taken on this . |
| 24 | Counsel advice has been taken on this issue and it is concluded that debt restructuring is permitted by virtue of paragraph 1(1) ( c ) of Schedule 3 to the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1975 . |
| 25 | This has been switched on all afternoon and left flat . |
| 26 | Sharpe discovered that before his long absences through injury and illness ; Giggs has been finding out this year . |
| 27 | Developed from the Laser 28 , the RF290 has been notching up some impressive results , winning at least three class 1sts in the Hamble Winter Series . |
| 28 | Heavy losses are not new to this big Courage League Two club , but the full measure of their plight has been spelt out this week by Mr Hampson . |
| 29 | Yes Please ’ has been held back due to production problems surrounding their promotional video . |
| 30 | Most of them used local girls , but I decided to go to the famous state-run Eros Centre in Hamburg , which I 've since heard has been closed down due to the AIDS scare . |