Example sentences of "been [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first ballot was dogged by controversy , when parents opposed to the school opting out claimed a propaganda war had been waged to promote the move . |
| 2 | She had been to see Enter the Dragon and started to tell him all about the code of kung fu as he hurried her upstairs . |
| 3 | Designed by William Kent who 'd been commisioned to improve the landscape at Shotover , it 's an exotic , mysterious building , topped with battlements , pinnacles and turrets . |
| 4 | The European Parliament has also been lobbied to ban the import of all yellowfin tuna , and consumer boycotts are already underway in several European countries . |
| 5 | A political as well as a religious Independent , Blackwell 's appointment may have been intended to reassure the army , since the war treasurers themselves were London aldermen of Presbyterian persuasion . |
| 6 | This brief survey has been intended to convey the flavour of the work on chaos in lasers and other all-optical systems which has exploded into the literature in the last five years or so . |
| 7 | This offensive took place between Marivan and Sardasht on the night of 19–20 October 1983 and may have been intended to cut the lines of communication between the Iraqi forces and the KDPI . |
| 8 | It had originally been intended to limit the survey to two areas , but additional funding to enlarge the sample has been made available by the DTI , with whom the results will be discussed in detail . |
| 9 | They might have been intended to catch the blade of an opponent , thus preventing it from sliding past the hilt , and injuring the holder . ’ |
| 10 | Once in the hides , sentries had been posted to protect the company positions , and many of the men took the opportunity to get some rest , if only for a few minutes . |
| 11 | The tendency for prescriptive ideologies to inhibit and distort responses in situations where informants are conscious of a competing set of standard norms became evident when Labov pressed his questions with people who had been heard using the construction in conversation . |
| 12 | As applied to the crystallization of ice this mechanism is largely conjectural at present since little experimental work has been undertaken to estimate the pressures likely to be generated . |
| 13 | Though the terms of the Barber bequest originally forbad the purchase of works painted after 1899 , this stipulation has since been altered to permit the acquisition of works of art at least thirty years old — an alteration which has made possible the purchase under the present Director , Professor Hamish Miles , of important pictures by Redon , Gwen John , Leger and Magritte . |
| 14 | ‘ Mary says you have been helping to feed the sheep . ’ |
| 15 | Aye , coupled to a scum gangster , as though there was no difference between Yakobi and some undercity vermin — whereas Yakobi had been helping hold the line against such vicious filth , on behalf , yes ultimately on behalf , of those selfsame upper-spire revellers ! |
| 16 | This column argues the South African officials have been helping to professionalise the game by creating elite city clubs which cream off the best resources at the expense of the poorer , less fashionable sides . |
| 17 | ‘ When Data General showed us the changeover to the AV4100 , it took an hour , ’ says Geoffrey Holmes , a former publisher of ACCOUNTANCY who has been helping to re-implement the system . |
| 18 | Every so often , as the young man led them across the room , a telephone would ring , but quietly , its bell having been adjusted to suit the tone of the office , and someone would answer the muted telephone in a lowered voice . |
| 19 | Since all five surveys differ with respect to their methods of investigation and the type of estimate made , the figures used to indicate the rate of known opioid use in Wirral have been adjusted to increase the validity of each comparison ( see Table 2.3 ) . |
| 20 | Nearly 1,000 correspondents from around the world have been accredited to cover the match and among them the betting is that Kasparov will win . |
| 21 | The poorest half of the planet has been drained to resource the god of conspicuous consumption . |
| 22 | Much of the marshland surrounding the broads and rivers has been drained to make the land available for agricultural use . |
| 23 | An Open Meeting has been arranged to enable the Council to bring governing bodies up to date on two important issues and to have joint discussion on them . |
| 24 | The fact that Count Vulgrin , shortly before 1179 , had married Elizabeth , daughter of Hugh , lord of Amboise , suggests that the marriage had been arranged to suit the Angevins , for Hugh was a trusted vassal . |
| 25 | The trial had been arranged to allow the quality of the coal to be analysed and the commitment of the consortium to be assessed . |
| 26 | At the National Library of Medicine , the CAI programme MEDLEARN has been developed to teach the use of MEDLINE . |
| 27 | There are also a number of tasks and activities which have been developed to illustrate the family dynamic — these include family choreography , role-playing , role-reversal , family drawing , charting , listing , and perhaps most well-known , family sculpting . |
| 28 | But while a sophisticated series of discourses has been developed to analyse the problems and conflicts in women 's experience , and especially the pain and anguish of women 's social , domestic , emotional , and sexual lives , the reasons why most women continue to define ourselves , and to practise as heterosexual have remained unexplored . |
| 29 | I am inviting you to consider some of the steps which have been developed to promote the level and quantity of language skills which are needed to sustain and develop the social infrastructure in relation to the public services in a multi-lingual Britain . |
| 30 | Following the publication in 1971 , of the Bolton Report , many schemes have been developed to promote the growth of small firms . |