Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] been [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sport , hobbies , a small business or charity work have been occupying more and more attention through the late fifties , in preparation for retirement . |
| 32 | Many hours of work have been put in by them in tracklaying and modelling to scale the station buildings , engine sheds , goods shed and signal box as they were . |
| 33 | The clock and barometer have been handed on from Kevin 's father 's yacht |
| 34 | Layers of management have been stripped out and restrictive labour practices dating back to the Red Clyde era have disappeared . |
| 35 | Our group of women training to return to management have been finding out |
| 36 | ‘ Are you trying to tell me , ’ Richmann began dangerously , ‘ that these changes in plan have been made just on the basis of your superstitious intuition that the newest arrivals on the island are somehow dangerous ? ’ |
| 37 | ( In this extract several pieces of Owen 's dialogue have been put together . ) |
| 38 | Then , in mid December , under pressure from the museum 's board of trustees , he resigned , stating , ‘ a resignation — no matter whose or for what — is always a sad event , but , in this case , the best interests of a great museum have been kept firmly in mind ’ . |
| 39 | This test and many other experiments on the importance of smell in bird migration have been carried out in Italy . |
| 40 | At least two whales believed to have been affected by sonar have been washed up dead on the beach at Abu Dhabi . |
| 41 | A quantity have been put aside for overseas readers — just send an IRC to our Mail Order Department and we will send you one , while stocks last . |
| 42 | Many very thorough and valid surveys of this type have been carried out . |
| 43 | The Urban Programme award means pedestrianisation of the town 's High Street can go ahead this summer , but other schemes put forward by the council have been turned down . |
| 44 | Experts from and officials from Amper Valley Council have been carrying out tests to try and trace the cause of the problem at Langley Mill Junior School . |
| 45 | Over recent months Cambridgeshire County Council have been working closely with CIBA-GEIGY Plastics , Duxford to produce an Off-Site Emergency Plan for the Duxford Works . |
| 46 | MEN working for Darlington council have been urged not to be shy about reporting incidents of sexual harassment . |
| 47 | To date it is a subtle but important change of mood that , with luck , will grow stronger over the winter — allowing spring to bring those green shoots of recovery that the Treasury and the Chancellor have been banging on about for the last two years . |
| 48 | Both the assets and the liabilities of the personal sector have been rising rapidly over the past ten years . |
| 49 | Small farms in the public sector have been grouped together in cooperatives to gain all the benefits possible from size and concentration . |
| 50 | Regency stripe , classical motifs and rich wood have been used here to achieve a formal style that is also very natural . |
| 51 | New services for adult survivors of sexual abuse have been set up . |
| 52 | for instance , could staff and equipment have been used more effectively ? |
| 53 | During the past decade the poverty stricken countries of the South have been paying far more money to the rich North than they have been receiving in new money . |
| 54 | The underlying physical principle and the shock wave machine have been described elsewhere . |
| 55 | The Ossis have been fobbed off with one middling portfolio , transport , and two lightweight ones . |
| 56 | Requests to establish a clearway to prevent cars parking in the stop zone have been turned down on the grounds the restriction would be difficult to impose . |
| 57 | Hare 's account of the events has been published , and many obscure points in the history of the discovery have been investigated subsequently . |
| 58 | Criticisms of factory farming have been rehearsed often enough . |
| 59 | GEORGE GRAHAM says he loves facts , but he ca n't take any satisfaction from the ones his Arsenal team have been producing lately . |
| 60 | As a consequence , the members of the team have been thrown back on what amounts to a re-discovery of the mental welfare officer role — visiting , keeping an eye on things , and acting as a gatekeeper for routing some resources to individuals and families . |