Example sentences of "has [be] [verb] [adv] the " 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 | Approval is given for something that has been done so the management arrow is somewhat behind the broken arrow . |
| 3 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 4 | The railway station has been re-sited down the line to make room for the town 's bypass . |
| 5 | Once it has been demonstrated how the logic behind the traditional fidelity to the interests of the shareholders is flawed in the context of the large public company , we are free to examine exactly the nature of the stake which shareholders and others have in the company . |
| 6 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 7 | The practice has been terminated whereby the staff of the Accounts Section served in the Library on secondment from the Scottish Office . |
| 8 | Decision taking has been delegated down the management structure : sales and support staff have more responsibility and freedom to respond to customer needs . |
| 9 | Er where the report has been pointing out the cost , not just in financial terms , but in terms of , of hurt and unhappiness of a home breaking up , a family breaking up . |
| 10 | Once the management task has been defined then the type of information required can be identified . |
| 11 | The marsh has been drained so the water forms a lake with small islands for birds and wildlife . |
| 12 | Our approach to interest rate risk has been to manage actively the balance between floating-rate and fixed-rate debt . |
| 13 | It has been seen how the Thatcher Governments have been busy in turning the taxation of wealth into a voluntary tax . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Perhaps the main achievement of the political right has been to slow down the rate of growth in public spending and to identify some of it as ‘ wasteful ’ . |
| 16 | But the net effect has been to leave exactly the same number dependent upon means-tested assistance . |
| 17 | Shimon Samuels , meanwhile , has been lobbying both the German and French governments , questioning their lack of endeavour in hunting down suspects . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The judge has been summing up the case against Harper and the jury will consider the case against him tomorrow . |
| 20 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 21 | The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times . |
| 22 | The Project 's approach has been to build up the confidence and self-awareness of different groups to a stage where contact and co-operation among them will be facilitated . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Primarily , the fact that nostalgia has been thrown out the window and crushed by the futuristic steamroller from hell . |
| 25 | The effect of Japanese competition in some industries in the past has been to reduce drastically the size of those industries and in some cases ( eg motor cycles ) virtually eliminate the industries altogether . |
| 26 | Once the microcomputer has been switched off the data is only available from one or the disks — it is no longer in the computer 's memory . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | Rock'n'roll has become so totally predictable and everybody has been doing exactly the same thing now for , like , 25 years . |
| 29 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |
| 30 | By law she is not allowed to smack the children and I can not understand , sometimes how she manages to stop herself when brand new wallpaper has been pulled off the wall and a clean coat of paint has been drawn on . |