Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of ideology it is exactly what the FMLN has been fighting for these past seven years . |
| 2 | Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme . |
| 3 | Brian Clough has been trying for several weeks to recapture the man he sees as a key player in his fight to lift Forest off the bottom of the Premier League . |
| 4 | KEVIN WARD has been banned for both of St Helens ' two big holiday attractions . |
| 5 | Though Oslerus has been recorded from many countries there is little data on its local prevalence . |
| 6 | The task of introducing TQM has been given to former Group Training Manager , Bob Rae , who was promoted to General Manager , Quality Development in January . |
| 7 | Despite his fame amongst his contemporaries , Gassendi has been overshadowed by those whom he influenced — perhaps because of the modesty and undogmatic nature of his arguments , which lie buried in lengthy , copiously annotated Latin works . |
| 8 | According to reports in some of the more scurrilous publications , the young American was deeply turned off by this close encounter with the ‘ world 's sexiest female ’ as Kylie has been voted in many teen surveys . |
| 9 | Six months on , Sue Hill has been promoted to another department where she sells advertising and loves her job . |
| 10 | Michael Roberts has been booked for another fancied horse in Red Paddy , but the best-backed horses yesterday were Blue Orca , who is as low as 12-1 with Ladbrokes but still 16-1 with Hills , and Tafila , who was offered at 33-1 yesterday morning but by the evening was generally 16-1 . |
| 11 | However , the spokesman , Mr Vladimir Mestensev , said Mr Gorbachev had been outvoted by several Praesidium members led by the former Moscow Party Chief , Mr Boris Yeltsin . |
| 12 | However , the spokesman , Mr Vladimir Mestensev , said Mr Gorbachev had been outvoted by several Praesidium members led by the former Moscow Party Chief , Mr Boris Yeltsin . |
| 13 | Throughout his trials with the Sex Pistols , Richard Branson had been engaged in another , even more delicate negotiation , one which promised , at last , to provide the antidote to the enduring unhappiness over his broken marriage . |
| 14 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 15 | If it was a turning point in terms of ‘ proving ’ the relationship , it also marked the change in image Kylie had been wanting for such a long time . |
| 16 | If only Teddy or Richard had been spared from that terrible war , she would n't be cast out like this . |
| 17 | ‘ No , of course there has n't , I 'd have known if Dana had been hurt in any way . |
| 18 | A sector which is under pressure from imports may seek voluntary export restraints on the part of the foreign suppliers ( a wide range of Japanese exports to the United States have been affected by such agreements ) . |
| 19 | Many of the deliberations of the LDDC have been taken with little or no public scrutiny . |
| 20 | Leonie von Wilckens has been working in this area for over thirty years from her base at the German National Museum in Nuremberg , home of a major textile collection . |
| 21 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 22 | Separately , US PC Week highlights Intel 's unhappiness with the cavalier way in which IBM has been offering to all and sundry the iAPX-86 chip variants it has designed under its second source agreement with IBM , and suggests that the agreement is being renegotiated , and that IBM may get the right to make enhanced versions of the Pentium only if it agrees to strict limits on how many it can make for itself or sale . |
| 23 | Since married men were normally exempt , youths in some areas might for this reason marry as young as fourteen or fifteen and be given a small piece of land by their parents to maintain themselves : the proliferation of very small peasant holdings in Denmark has been attributed to this factor . |
| 24 | The Fishing Temple at Sharpham in Devon has been let in this way for many years . |
| 25 | It was the first time a man in England has been charged with such an offence . |
| 26 | This was the moment Lynch had been building for all his life . |
| 27 | It had never occurred to her that Christopher had been thinking of these things too . |
| 28 | A man accused of raping his wife has been cleared by a jury at Sheffield Crown Court ; it was the first time a man in England had been charged with such an offence . |
| 29 | When she reached there she found that Ann and Ruth had been joined by several other girls , including Sarah , and were just about to start their game . |
| 30 | Ganev and the UDF had been angered by some documents leaked in late February in an attempt to smear him , and had demanded that the secret services by placed under the control of the Interior Ministry rather than the Presidency as at present . |