Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] have been drive " in BNC.

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1 Simulator development has been driven by technology rather than by the behavioural sciences with the standard result that there is a high reliance on face validity with relatively little resource devoted to systematic evaluation .
2 By June 1989 the British service tunnel had been driven nearly 9,000m seaward and 5,000m landward while in France the landward service tunnel drive was completed .
3 He moved rapidly down-river to Rouen where a number of merchant vessels had been driven in by the exceptional tide , and requisitioned twenty-eight boats .
4 Consumer spending has been driving the economy out of recession this year , but the recovery is patchy and the Chancellor will scrutinise the last detail of every economic statistic in the next month , before he decides whether he can risk raising taxes on November the Thirtieth .
5 The proliferation of business information sources has been driven by the increasing ease with which information can be made publicly available through advances in IT , and of course by the availability of cash to purchase those resources .
6 The second is a historical observation , that during the thirty years or so since the first observations of single cell response properties in the visual systems of mammals , our understanding of how the visual system works has been driven as much by theoretical developments in the psychology of perception as the other way round .
7 Global competition in the automobile industry has been driving out many of the smaller firms .
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