Example sentences of "has [be] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of his achievements since joining Guy 's in 1985 has been to set up a full fertility unit . |
| 2 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 3 | The railway station has been re-sited down the line to make room for the town 's bypass . |
| 4 | Yes because previous to this year , erm the R C E has been picking up a proportion of their costs . |
| 5 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 6 | Decision taking has been delegated down the management structure : sales and support staff have more responsibility and freedom to respond to customer needs . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The outstanding performers were Scott Loftus , of Old Loughts , who scored four , and Old Felstedians Chris Maitland and Paul Surridge , who has been holding down a place with National League First Division outfit Canterbury since leaving school . |
| 9 | And more recently there seems to be a tendency for people to say , ‘ he has been seen out a few times , he must be OK ’ , when the threat to my life is unchanged . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | The string retainer has been screwed down a little too low , resulting in quite a severe break angle over the nut , but if I 'm talking about that as a problem , then you can see there 's really not much wrong with the rest of the LX . |
| 12 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The judge has been summing up the case against Harper and the jury will consider the case against him tomorrow . |
| 15 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 16 | The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times . |
| 17 | After the computer has been started up a number of times — possibly 90 — the damage starts . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 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 | Primarily , the fact that nostalgia has been thrown out the window and crushed by the futuristic steamroller from hell . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | To find out what effect all this burning may be having on the upper atmosphere , particularly upon global warming , the Brazilian space institute , in collaboration with NASA from the United States , has been carrying out a research programme . |
| 24 | I know that the National Audit Office has been carrying out a value-for-money study of NRA coast protection schemes . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The latest entry , Quarterdeck with the long-awaited Desqview/X , however , has been stirring up the market with some high profile selling , backed by a positive reception from the industry . |
| 28 | First off though our reporter Fiona Mcbride has been finding out a bit more about Glasgay . |
| 29 | because like when I see him , you know , and he has been sorted out a bit recently not really sorted |
| 30 | The microprocessor wars are going to get vicious over the next two or three years , and to convince its acolytes that Sparc will be one of the survivors , Sun Microsystems has been mapping out the future of the architecture . |