Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can co-exist as alternative spellings during transition — indeed , a hundred or so words have been simplified this century when dictionaries have listed alternative spellings and the public has opted for the easier way of arranging the letters . |
| 2 | Mr Crawford added more than 600 illegal nets had been seized this year . |
| 3 | Millions of parents have been saying this for months . |
| 4 | MORE than 600 illegal nets have been confiscated this year from poachers who are stealing thousands of pounds worth of salmon from the River Foyle . |
| 5 | ‘ Hundreds of companies have been duped this way , ’ said a detective with the Northumbria Fraud Squad , which is investigating the Brandmakers ' case . |
| 6 | At present no other organisations have been given this status . |
| 7 | BANKS have been reeling this week with the news that customer complaints to the industry 's Ombudsman have risen by 60 per cent . |
| 8 | No average for the country is available for comparison , but compared with other areas where similar surveys have been made this figure is regarded as a high one . |
| 9 | Theologians have been arguing this for two thousand years … ’ |
| 10 | Twenty-one red kite chicks have been raised this year , compared to just 10 last year . |
| 11 | And this is what TV viewers have been watching this year … |
| 12 | In the Northern General hospital NHS trust , six new consultants have been appointed this year and 95 per cent . |
| 13 | Erm , the , all the arguments for and against organic dips have been considered this last nine months by the Veterinary Products Committee , and they 've come out with a report I think , that satisfies no one , because it does n't go either , either way in that respect at all , it 's called for more research and , and erm , development in that , in that sense . |
| 14 | TWO hundred baby hedgehogs have been saved this year by RSPCA nurses who fed them scrambled eggs at West Hatch , Somerset . |
| 15 | A consultative panel on badgers has been meeting this week ; it 'll make recomendations to the Agriculture Minister , John Gummer , which may include the introduction of widespread TB testing . |
| 16 | Following upon the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 , a whole succession of English bishops had been publishing this legislation and adding to it their own diocesan statutes ; Pecham himself in 1281 drew upon the legislation of two archbishops — Langton ( 1222 ) and Boniface ( 1261 ) — and two papal legates — Otto ( 1237 ) and Ottobuono ( 1268 ) . |
| 17 | Me and all my friends had been having this really great scuttle . |
| 18 | The splendid and spirited pictures in the early printed herbals had been done this way , but as increasingly detailed and accurate illustrations were demanded , plates etched or engraved on copper became the norm . |
| 19 | Seaside entrepreneurs had been feeding this appetite , building this market , for several generations already . |
| 20 | We must check to see whether the lady 's slipper survived the winter — only six species of orchids have been seen this year . |
| 21 | Keyboard players have been doing this for years , but it 's a revelation to most guitarists . |
| 22 | The panic which followed Mr Nigel Lawson 's departure from the Treasury has subsided , but tremors have been produced this week by tabloid press reports that Mr Nicholas Ridley , the Trade Secretary , regards Mrs Thatcher as a liability , leaving only four solid loyalists in Cabinet — Mr John Major , Mr David Waddington , Mr Cecil Parkinson and Mr Norman Lamont . |
| 23 | The pages of magazines have been filled this year with the usual crop of controversies . |
| 24 | The finding of the " goat " has caused particular excitement , since i is one of the few large mammals to have been discovered this century . |
| 25 | 150 enquiries had been made this year , and potential students are now seeking funding . |
| 26 | Worldwide , over a million great whales have been killed this century for their oil and meat . |
| 27 | Lam exhibitions have been mounted this month at The Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid ( until 14 December and then travelling to the Fundació Miró in Barcelona , 21 January–28 March , 1993 ) , the Villa Medici in Rome , the home of the French Academy ( until 24 January 1993 and the first show of the artist 's work in Italy ) and in New York . |
| 28 | The West Germans had been using this technique to stimulate postwar rebuilding since the 1950s , and the Department of the Environment clearly saw some parallels . |
| 29 | A new formative assessment for third year students has been introduced this year — namely , an integrated workbook assignment . |
| 30 | Women 's Weeklies You see women have been asked this as well . |