Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 2 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 3 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 4 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 5 | A variety of cargoes , as diverse as Britain 's industries , has been carried on the inland waterways . |
| 6 | It is very difficult to do this satisfactorily ; the experienced reader can nearly always see where the joins have been made and , of course , for the student the exercise in beginning research has been carried out the wrong way round . |
| 7 | Maybe , she thought , she had been adopting entirely the wrong approach . |
| 8 | The Feldwebel came back , and the man who had been filling in the new form turned round in his chair and looked at me . |
| 9 | She has been offered only the statutory minimum of £4,715 in redundancy pay . |
| 10 | As a result , one of the central policy priorities of government has been to strengthen significantly the academic infrastructure so that research and postgraduate training activities are adequate to meet the future needs of industry , especially in what have been termed ‘ exploitable areas of science ’ . |
| 11 | A Parliamentary Commission , presided over by Christian Democrat Giorgio Santz has been investigating how the preceding laws have worked and has now come up with its report which shows that in the last eight years , of the L1,500 billion allocated to Venice only L853 billion ( £394.3 million ; $686 million ) have actually been spent . |
| 12 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 13 | The problem with industry-funded research has always been sorting out the intellectual property rights . |
| 14 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 15 | Tosspot had been found dead the previous afternoon . |
| 16 | Born in nearby Berkeley , Renee had been brought up the hard way . |
| 17 | In this industry , none has been brought in the past six months . |
| 18 | Sharma v Knight [ 1986 ] 1 WLR 757 is authority for the proposition that jurisdiction conferred on county courts by statute is a general one and it is not restricted to the district in which proceedings should have been brought in accordance with Ord 4 , r 8 and that , if proceedings have been brought in the wrong county court , then the court nevertheless has jurisdiction to deal with the matter . |
| 19 | The pathogenesis of the disease has always been controversial , but considerable circumstantial evidence exists to support the suggestion that it is due to implantation of endometrium that has been refluxed down the fallopian tube at menstruation . |
| 20 | Only then did she fully realise that if she had been five minutes later the watchers keeping a lookout for a stray boy might , tomorrow , have been hauling ashore the sodden body of Gus Hambro . |
| 21 | But the forest has been spared perhaps the ultimate in toxic waste . |
| 22 | Mothers of younger and younger children have been taking on the dual burden of paid work and child rearing ( see Hunt , 1968 ; Martin and Roberts , 1984 ; Joshi , 1985 ) . |
| 23 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |
| 24 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Quite a number of our staff live in Wimbledon and some practical jokers have been putting up the other Graham Hadley 's pamphlets , ’ he says . |
| 26 | Since about 1988 , Rob Gallagher ( aka Galliano ) has been putting together the cross-cultural , many-sided musical jigsaw that shares his nickname . |
| 27 | ‘ Everything in this century has been put on the marital couple . |
| 28 | Though no official cost has been put on the deep-water well which led to the West of Shetland find , industry sources suggest the total outlay may have been less than £10 million . |
| 29 | After all , the state owns many buildings and assets , and much emphasis has been put on the institutional shareholdings of insurance companies and pension funds . |
| 30 | ‘ We decided to suspend treatment for a while but have been put on the waiting list at the Ulster . |