Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past 150 years our politicians have been droning on about the need to train the British worker to the level of the German , oblivious to the somewhat obvious fact that we are not Germans so can not be expected to behave like them . |
| 2 | Oceans have been picking up soluble materials ( notably sodium chloride — salt ) from the land , for millions of years . |
| 3 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 4 | Consequently , the weft strands form the pattern on the face of the rug which , because they have been looped back around the warp strands , is clearly visible from both back and front . |
| 5 | Harry has heard that today Aldenham is a school and , although Edwin 's fruit house still stands , its inner furnishings have been cleared out and the place is now used as a boat store . |
| 6 | PULSARS that are members of binary systems in globular clusters are all rapidly rotating , and it is assumed that they have been spun up by accretion from binary companions . |
| 7 | EURO Disney may be officially opening tomorrow , but tens of thousands of guests and Disney employees have been trying out the rides this week . |
| 8 | So Stephen Matthews and his colleagues at LLNL have been trying out their linear accelerators . |
| 9 | Recently I have been trying out Golfer cardigans . |
| 10 | Some bureaux have been invited in by the probation or education departments or by the prison governor . |
| 11 | Seriously though , motions like this one have been debated over and over again . |
| 12 | From more than 80 strains , four have been singled out to be grown from seeds which are tested for protein , which helps them to withstand heat . |
| 13 | THE glow of recognition will be sweet for those who have been singled out in the New Year Honours list . |
| 14 | Others have been singled out because of their involvement in a trade union or political party . |
| 15 | A number of people who have been singled out by Mrs Whitehouse as playing particularly crucial roles in the process of supposedly ‘ permissive change ’ have already been mentioned . |
| 16 | The scenes on pottery described above belong to a very small minority , but they have been singled out for their outstanding interest and significance in the study of religious practices . |
| 17 | He is particularly interested in the various features of childhood experiences that have been singled out by different theorists as the important determinants of adult personality : feeding regimes , toilet training , parental warmth , permissiveness and so on . |
| 18 | They represent products which have been singled out and improved to make them more environmentally friendly . |
| 19 | This is not only the case in socialist states , where the old debates about the managerial revolution and the ‘ new class ’ suddenly become relevant again ( though Mali , Tanzania and Ghana are among the states that have been singled out as using socialism as an ideology enabling the bureaucracy to control the economy ) . |
| 20 | South Korean boats fishing for tuna have been singled out for blame . |
| 21 | The undercover soldiers of the S-A-S have been singled out for their bravery in the Gulf War . |
| 22 | She said people receiving the letter should not worry that they have been singled out for any genuine reason . |
| 23 | Following an ecology audit of ICI land , 21 sites in Europe , North America , India , Brazil and South Africa have been singled out to receive funds and expert assistance from ICI 's ‘ Nature Link ’ scheme to help them conserve their wildlife . |
| 24 | Since then , new benefits have been bolted on to Beveridge 's structure and some of these have compounded the ageism of the system . |
| 25 | What differentiates them are all the extra functions that have been bolted on , and this is what I 'll be concentrating on in this review . |
| 26 | Police and security-service patrols have been stepped up . |
| 27 | The chemical industry 's efforts to secure insurance have been stepped up following the publication of a number of European directives suggesting a move towards much wider compulsory compensation for environmental damage . |
| 28 | ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring on beaches at Sellafield have been stepped up following the discovery of a grass-like substance . |
| 29 | In the evening string bands serenade diners in the scores of ‘ traditional ’ Mexican restaurants whose spicy hot menus have been toned down to suit the tourist palate . |
| 30 | From the start of this week the savings institutions have been handing over magnetic tapes to the Inland Revenue giving details of all interest-earning accounts , however small . |