Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major contribution of the discipline has been to emphasise how the identification and designation of a particular phenomenon or pattern of behaviour as a ‘ social problem ’ is not an unambiguous matter , but a process of social definition . |
| 2 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 3 | The marsh has been drained so the water forms a lake with small islands for birds and wildlife . |
| 4 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 5 | thank you and we see here that erm one thousand eight hundred and fifty six pounds had been claimed , that one thousand eight hundred and fifty six pounds thirteen had been received so the insurance cover had paid |
| 6 | Finally , as Pete had been opening out the canvas deck cover on a relaunched Fairline Fury while Ted paced the dock alongside , he 'd looked up at his employer and said , ‘ You really want to know ? ’ |
| 7 | This board of directors has just been spelling out the fact that we 're in big trouble ; we 're heavily in debt , we 're showing a … a net loss before taxation … we can barely afford this month 's wages bills , we ca n't meet half our orders … all that does n't just come blazing in overnight after an accident with the new singeing machine in the printing plant … ’ |
| 8 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 9 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 10 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 11 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 12 | If an announcement has been prepared then the response to a leak should be more effective than in the event of having to deal with the situation at short notice . |
| 13 | Anyone could have been looking out the window seeing them being cheap with the teddy boy . |
| 14 | Approval is given for something that has been done so the management arrow is somewhat behind the broken arrow . |
| 15 | The Family Division of the High Court has jurisdiction to hear public law cases which have been transferred up the court system or issued at High Court level . |
| 16 | Shimon Samuels , meanwhile , has been lobbying both the German and French governments , questioning their lack of endeavour in hunting down suspects . |
| 17 | By November it has usually been decided where the money is to go and a presentation evening is arranged . |
| 18 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 19 | He has started just two matches so far , having been pushed down the pecking order by the arrival of £2 million David Rocastle from Arsenal . |
| 20 | A KPMG spokesman said : " The environment has been pushed down the agenda of many private companies by other factors such as the recession and exchange rates . |
| 21 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 22 | The pulpit had been wreathed in holly , ivy had been twined up the lectern , garlands of leaves and berries hung from the gallery where 18th-century fiddlers had played before the organ came . |
| 23 | A little mirror had been hung on the wall of the dressing area . |
| 24 | TOLERABLY familiar with a general election 's orchestration , I have been wondering why the music in this one is so unfamiliar . |
| 25 | Parore had been heading down the leg side — too far , ex-Central Districts keeper Jack Vernon assured me later — and had to change direction . |
| 26 | We believe that the amendments are vital because we have never been told officially the price of any of the bus companies . |
| 27 | So now he is my enemy , I have touched his pride , and he has been waiting only the moment to humiliate me … ’ |
| 28 | While Charles had been withdrawing northward the sloop Prince Charles , formerly , until taken as a prize , His Majesty 's Ship Hazard , had been on its way to him from France with some Irish troops , arms and , most important of all , £13,600 in gold . |
| 29 | " Instead of the children of the working class being subjected to rigorous self-denial in preparation for a life-time in mill or mine , " he writes , " they have been offered instead the promise of the easy and immediate gratification which , in the end , can sabotage human development and achievement just as effectively as the poverty and hunger of the past . " |
| 30 | The Pakistan skipper had been drawn down the pitch by Tufnell 's flight . |