Example sentences of "been [verb] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime he had been pursuing a policy of rationalizing the trade by buying patent and grain distillery businesses that were in difficulty , collaborating closely with the large blending houses . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Never mind , she said to me this morning , she said I 've been to see a friend of yours , I said well who 's that ? |
| 4 | ON reporting to Chantilly on the morning of February 25th , Pétain and Serrigny found that ‘ the panic was at its peak ’ The fall of Verdun was expected momentarily , ‘ and everybody was saying that General Herr should be shot ’ Somehow it leaked out that Pétain had come from Paris , not Noailles , and the word was quickly passed round by those veterans of intrigue that he had first been to see the Minister of War , Galliéni , the implacable foe of G.Q.G. Doubtless the rumour helped augment the alarm in the air . |
| 5 | They tend to be the larger companies , I have to be fair , er , but er , one of the encouraging things from my point of view , and I , we started rather early , maybe fifteen , twenty years ago has been to see the growth of this particular sector , where people have moved progressively into , I think a much more enlightened posture in the last ten or fifteen years , and B I C , Business in the Community of course , have to take , I think much credit for that . |
| 6 | They 've been charting the progress of Rob Coles throughout the British Steel challenge … possibly the toughest seafaring test he 'll ever experience . |
| 7 | The first thing I learnt more or less was thkarni which means — well she said it meant — this white stork we 've been seeing a lot of . |
| 8 | The girl had been seeing a lot of another young man , an estate agent called Jose , and that association continued after the marriage — long after ! |
| 9 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 10 | Somebody 's been eating a lot of those have n't they ? |
| 11 | I said somebody 's been eating a lot of those . |
| 12 | This book , which might as easily have been entitled The Triumph of Realism , might equally have been subtitled The Return of the Native . |
| 13 | In the north several million Iraqi Kurds have been building the sinews of an independent homeland , most but not all of which is protected by another no-fly zone . |
| 14 | While state-owned and foreign businesses have held the centre of the stage for three decades , tens of thousands of informal sector artisans have been producing a range of goods for use in households , agriculture , transport and construction . |
| 15 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 16 | A sheet had been spread out on the ground , and around it had been placed a square of long hard bolsters . |
| 17 | One of the largest Polish communities in Britain has been enjoying a style of dancing seldom seen outside its homeland . |
| 18 | As for Master Gates , he came home a war hero and has been enjoying the fruits of his fame ever since . ’ |
| 19 | An informal group formed this week has been mobilising the support of cricket clubs throughout the island to stay away from the game . |
| 20 | I mean that people like , you know , have said that the British secret intelligence have been have been doing now for a quite long time have been waging a sort of undercover war and er I 'm sure some of it 's true |
| 21 | The contribution of the Conservative government has been to quicken the pace of centralisation , concerned perhaps to exercise greater control of public sector organisations for which privatisation was not an option . |
| 22 | Our main concern has been to promote the concept of self-evaluation as a tool for management and improvement of services . |
| 23 | Teachers , with a professional nose for the job had been handling a range of social issues , especially under the general heading of PSE ( Personal and Social Education ) . |
| 24 | Members of Schedule I have been given a choice of remaining in that Schedule with an NRA of 60 , or of opting for the new , improved , Schedule II . |
| 25 | Martin needed a bit of time to settle down and should have been given a couple of throws in his usual position in the middle before going to the front and staying there . |
| 26 | there was a I mean I 've also been given a couple of ways to remember it but |
| 27 | I 'd been given a pair of lime green webbed gloves as a wedding present by Roger , my surfing guru in Newquay . |
| 28 | For many women , it 's the first time they have been given a responsibility of this kind . |
| 29 | There is an apple-tree up against the fence that separates them from their neighbours , but it has been given a kind of Buddhist monk 's haircut . |
| 30 | New Zealand international hooker Duane Mann has also been given a deadline of next week to decide on his new deal . |