Example sentences of "have been engaged in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed it is perhaps a pity that he did not take his own advice , after writing in the New Guide ‘ for the author of the present work might with greater ease , and probably with more advantage to himself , have worked up for the amusement of the eye a number of drawings and paintings during the time he has been engaged in this matter of mere utility ’ . |
| 2 | GIVEN THE reflective nature of ‘ Harvest Moon ’ and the fact that Young has been engaged in putting together an ambitious retrospective over the past few years , his claim that he only considers the past when talking to journalists must be taken with a pinch of salt . |
| 3 | IN HIS preview of England 's tour of New Zealand ( WCM Jan ) , Steven Lynch alluded to the first England tour of New Zealand in 1929–30 as being the only time a country has been engaged in two Test series simultaneously . |
| 4 | For a number of years , the department has been engaged in a research project entitled ‘ The emigration of German-speaking art experts ’ , which lies behind this symposium . |
| 5 | The strategy unit has been engaged in raising awareness and educating managers and trade unionists all over Australia . |
| 6 | The Irish Bank Officials ’ Association , over the years , has made a tremendous contribution to the welfare of its members and we know that in recent times IBOA has been engaged in many struggles to protect those terms and conditions . |
| 7 | Of course , the United Nations has been engaged in the exercise of sanctions against those who perpetrate excesses . |
| 8 | The USSR has been engaged in ‘ economic co-operation ’ with the less developed countries since 1954 , providing equipment , materials and know-how for various projects on advantageous terms . |
| 9 | A YOUNG flying ace of a Spitfire squadron which has been engaged in many battles over Britain , and who married a former Sheerness Carnival Queen , has been killed in action . |
| 10 | A very similar sort of enterprise has been engaged in by philosophers interested in the notion of speech act ( addressed in Chapter 5 ) : either by examining a special set of verbs called performative verbs , or by more abstract conceptual analysis , they arrive at classifications of the basic purposes for which language can be used ( see e.g. Searle , 1976 ) . |
| 11 | The others were that there was no power conferred on the council by Parliament , that the activity would not have been engaged in by a ‘ reasonable ’ authority , and the capital markets fund , through which the transactions were undertaken , ‘ was not reasonably organised or maintained ’ . |
| 12 | Thereafter he may have been engaged in wholesale dealing in corn and wool , though it is more probable that he continued to lend money under the guise of advancing money against future payment of commodities . |
| 13 | Apart from the confusion of squadrons , the implications of his having been engaged in this quite different operation were serious . |
| 14 | Having been engaged in an undeclared war with China since 1937 Japan took advantage of the French defeat in 1940 both to close one of China 's last remaining links with the outside world , the Haiphong — Yunnan railway , and to begin her advance into Southeast Asia . |
| 15 | Inevitably he painted ‘ La Canadienne ’ , but although she was deeply in love , Modigliani 's emotions never seem to have been engaged in the affair . |
| 16 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 17 | When the US army discovered that Silver had been engaged in research work ( on Whitman ) he was put to personally testing the durability of uniforms , in sub-zero and boiling temperatures , artificial rain storms in laboratories and real tropical conditions in Florida : he soon became an assistant director of this project and stayed there for two years . |
| 18 | From his early years , he had been engaged in the creation of a whole world , comparable in scale with the world of Greek mythology , with a pantheon of gods , a hierarchy of elvish immortals , and a vast cycle of stories , some of them ‘ forgotten ’ , or not yet formulated , in his imagination ; some surviving in fragmentary form ; some planned as long prose narratives ; some conceived as great poems , longer than Beowulf The sheer volume of all this , much of it composed before his fortieth birthday , bears testimony to a rare artistic self-confidence . |
| 19 | Only a quarter of the French believed this , and yet their government had been engaged in a series of clashes with the Reagan administration on issues ranging from star wars to Nicaragua . |
| 20 | For several sleepless nights , Charity had been engaged in what she would call tiny wrestling with herself . |
| 21 | The ship had been engaged in protests against the tests . |
| 22 | It told how an empire of six hundred miles wide and nearly three thousand miles long , so big the Incas called it Tahuantinsuyo , the Four Quarters of the Earth , had been engaged in a fratricidal war of succession when its miserable future was planned by two uneducated adventurers , Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro , and by a priest , Father Hernando de Luque . |
| 23 | Consider the case where there are two ‘ players ’ , Lilliput and Blefuscu ( who , according to Jonathan Swift , ‘ had been engaged in a most obstinate war for six and thirty moons Past ’ ) . |
| 24 | Britain , France , Belgium and Holland had been engaged in the process of capital accumulation from the formation of overseas empires and from the slave trade since at least the sixteenth century . |
| 25 | They were invited into the classrooms to take part in some of the activities the pupils had been engaged in during the past term . |
| 26 | Previously he had been engaged in making a geological map of Devon and he now continued this work in an official capacity . |
| 27 | When Ceauşescu 's chief intelligence adviser , Ion Pacepa , defected to the United States in 1978 , he claimed that Ceauşescu had been engaged in a long-term strategic plan codenamed ‘ Red Horizon ’ . |
| 28 | The investigation found no evidence that the then Democratic candidate had been engaged in illegal activities during a trip to Moscow in 1969–70 . |
| 29 | In this case , Valerie Way , who had been engaged in home/school links work , was widely tipped as the ‘ hot favourite ’ for the post . |
| 30 | Eye-witnesses denied this , however , saying that he had been engaged in a ‘ fair ’ stand up fight , but that when other people joined in he had fallen and struck his head on a tramline . |