Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been drive [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Global competition in the automobile industry has been driving out many of the smaller firms . |
| 2 | By letting the property market lead , the industrial sector has been ignored and on many occasions existing industry has been driven out or left to die . |
| 3 | She was gripping the tiller arm so tightly that the blood had been driven out of her knuckles . |
| 4 | I had hardly time to see that a car had been driven up to a shop window and was now rapidly reversing out of it when two young men wearing stocking-masks and bundled up in thick clothing , making them unidentifiable , came rushing into the street , each swinging a bag of loot . |
| 5 | Now in fairness it would n't be our responsibility to pay for a new engine if the vehicle had been drive on . |
| 6 | Enterprise has been driven away by high business rates and high domestic rates . |
| 7 | The screw holes were countersunk and infilled once the screw had been driven home , though infilling was unnecessary with polished coffins where decorative beading was to be used . |
| 8 | Nothing could have been more controlled or correct , as if he did not know that his father had been driven out of the principality like a half-drowned rat , or a hound caught in a thunderstorm , and running for shelter with its tail between its legs . |
| 9 | This trend has been driven both by shifts in fertility and in the distribution of occupations . |
| 10 | Within half and hour , Curtis learned his man had been driven off in a green Cadillac by the unfortunate owner of the car , whom he had taken hostage at gun point . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had not been impaled , but the spike had been driven far upwards from near his throat before his body had slumped clear . |
| 13 | Growth has been driven forward by a free people using its talents . |
| 14 | ‘ Growth has been driven forward by a free people using its talents . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ By the look of what 's on the meter some sucker 's been driving around at ground level . |
| 16 | Three or four pamphlets and books have attacked ‘ the pernicious myth of monarchy ’ , but serious discussion of the usefulness or otherwise of the royal family has been driven out by simpering nonsense from a pack of tabloid reporters who devote their not inconsiderable imaginations to dreaming up new twists to a comic-strip family drama with a cast-list now augmented by half-a-dozen non-royal spouses and their families . |
| 17 | A FAMILY have been driven out of their Liverpool home by what they claim is a poltergeist . |