Example sentences of "have be [verb] [art] lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting into your loft quickly and safely has been made a lot easier with the unique collection of aluminium and wooden ladders and staircases available from the Loft Shop . |
| 2 | One approach that has been given a lot of importance is distinctive feature analysis , which is based on the principle that phonemes should be regarded not as independent and indivisible units , but instead as combinations of different features . |
| 3 | 2.35 : Public works section arrive to repair a fence which has been causing a lot of problems . |
| 4 | The Open Software Foundation is trying to figure out how to import object orientation into its Distributed Computing Environment , but is having trouble getting a handle on it , although part of its problem is thought to be attitudinal : it desperately needs an architectural and communications model and has been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk . |
| 5 | The UK , Cambridge-based Olivetti Research Laboratory , ORL , funded jointly by Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA and DEC , has been doing a lot of work on the so-called ‘ active badge ’ technology — infra-red location devices linked to computer and telephone systems . |
| 6 | So Keith has been doing a lot of work erm and putting on a database information about office traffic , Y T occupancy , |
| 7 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 8 | ‘ He 'd been drinking a lot . |
| 9 | I 'd been told a lot of stories |
| 10 | Maybe she 'd been doing a lot of thinking . |
| 11 | And the circumfe and erm diameter on I 'd been cutting a lot of them down , the diameter of them was from four foot to about six foot . |
| 12 | However , Nigel had not wished to leave his family and friends for the loneliness of the big city , even though he would have been earning a lot more money . |
| 13 | You would have been talking a lot of deep stuff about Baptism and Matrimony . ’ |
| 14 | The French manufacturers of the Exocet missile , Aerospatiale , had been done a lot of good to by the Falklands imbroglio and reported far better order books . |
| 15 | She had been thinking a lot about the conversation she and Leila had had back at Lazar 's , the talk of sky cities and escape . |
| 16 | This is something I had been thinking a lot about recently , using Psalm 37 as a basis . |
| 17 | He had been drinking a lot of beer , but he says he heard cries . |
| 18 | I had been getting a lot of this . |
| 19 | I picked one of them up and was struck to the heart , for it was obvious that he had been writing a lot of poetry , all of it , so it seemed to me , very good . |
| 20 | The girl had been seeing a lot of another young man , an estate agent called Jose , and that association continued after the marriage — long after ! |
| 21 | She had been reading a lot of self-help books and this was her conclusion . |
| 22 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 23 | But she was aware that she had been preoccupied a lot of the time , all too aware of the mountain of work before her , and that it was rather a long time since she and her daughter had had any special outings together . |
| 24 | ‘ We had been playing a lot of country and blues songs before we started to play a couple of Hendrix numbers in the set and it just caught on so we added more , ’ said Slim . |
| 25 | I have , I 've been asked a lot in the last twenty odd years and it 's only just recently that I 've seriously considered it , which is why I 've made this new album , Midnight Postcards . |
| 26 | But recently I 've been thinking a lot about a person I see once a week at a club . |
| 27 | ‘ Miranda , I 've been thinking a lot about you . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been thinking a lot about it , ’ she said , moving the salt cellar in a pattern on the tablecloth , ‘ and I think — ’ |
| 29 | I 've been given a lot of support from fans , especially letters written to me nearer the time . |
| 30 | ‘ No , I have n't , but I 've been hearing a lot about it , and I 've read books , of course . ’ |