Example sentences of "has been [verb] [adv] [art] " 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 | One of his achievements since joining Guy 's in 1985 has been to set up a full fertility unit . |
| 3 | Approval is given for something that has been done so the management arrow is somewhat behind the broken arrow . |
| 4 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 5 | The railway station has been re-sited down the line to make room for the town 's bypass . |
| 6 | Er this has been altered quite a lot since then , but you can still see the er gate that was er to the yard of the station . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yes because previous to this year , erm the R C E has been picking up a proportion of their costs . |
| 9 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 10 | The practice has been terminated whereby the staff of the Accounts Section served in the Library on secondment from the Scottish Office . |
| 11 | An inquest has been hearing how a bomb expert and four other workers were killed as they helped to clear Gulf War debris in the Kuwaiti desert . |
| 12 | An inquest has been hearing how a six-month old baby girl died from a fractured skull after being dropped on her head at playschool . |
| 13 | Decision taking has been delegated down the management structure : sales and support staff have more responsibility and freedom to respond to customer needs . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Once the management task has been defined then the type of information required can be identified . |
| 17 | The marsh has been drained so the water forms a lake with small islands for birds and wildlife . |
| 18 | An explicit leaflet and poster for students sloganned ‘ take a course in safe sex ’ has been causing quite a furore . |
| 19 | Our approach to interest rate risk has been to manage actively the balance between floating-rate and fixed-rate debt . |
| 20 | It has been seen how the Thatcher Governments have been busy in turning the taxation of wealth into a voluntary tax . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | If a terminal node has been reached then a new non-terminal branch is created , labelled with the first unmatched symbol . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | His chief backer is Roy Hattersley , whom he has been seeing quite a bit lately . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But the net effect has been to leave exactly the same number dependent upon means-tested assistance . |
| 28 | Shimon Samuels , meanwhile , has been lobbying both the German and French governments , questioning their lack of endeavour in hunting down suspects . |
| 29 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 30 | 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 . |