Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] 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 | A variety of cargoes , as diverse as Britain 's industries , has been carried on the inland waterways . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Feldwebel came back , and the man who had been filling in the new form turned round in his chair and looked at me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The problem with industry-funded research has always been sorting out the intellectual property rights . |
| 9 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 10 | Born in nearby Berkeley , Renee had been brought up the hard way . |
| 11 | In this industry , none has been brought in the past six months . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |
| 16 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Everything in this century has been put on the marital couple . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ We decided to suspend treatment for a while but have been put on the waiting list at the Ulster . |
| 22 | But if issues like these have been put on the public agenda by feminists , the substantive gains they achieved were limited . |
| 23 | Officials at the bank now admit that they failed to consider the affected population , and that more pressure could have been put on the Indian government to produce environmental plans . |
| 24 | Now that the Asian elephant has been put on the endangered list and included in the Red Data Book of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature 's Survival Service , governments will find it difficult officially to sanction catching operations . |
| 25 | The museum , along with its art gallery , has been put on the endangered list by Thamesdown Borough Council , which is being forced to make cuts in its budget . |
| 26 | These compensatory orders can only be obtained against the contravener who , for section 6 purposes , has been carrying on the unauthorised investment business , or who , for section 61 purposes , has contravened one or other of the statutory provisions referred to in section 61(1) ( a ) . |
| 27 | A final decision has not yet been taken on the possible move . |
| 28 | After he 'd been offered the job Archie had been taken over the new building to see the general layout . |
| 29 | Well over 400 individual environmental measures have been taken over the past 12 months to deliver our commitments , ranging from telephone helplines for those concerned about air quality to major international agreements on new standards for cars and water . |
| 30 | The prime task of the 1905 revolution had been to break up the large estates and with them the political and economic power of the nobility . |