Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [verb] [adv prt] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Pozsgay has been written off many times . |
| 2 | The double volume , Ogwen & Carneddau , will hopefully be in the shops by Easter ; Llanberis , at the time of writing , has much of the text complete , thanks to Iwan Arfon Jones , and Paul Williams has been rounding up all the loose ends . |
| 3 | Over the years industrial capitalist society has been casting off many of the more obvious outward signs of inner distress . |
| 4 | Well the Boat Race has been livened up this year with the publication of True Blue . |
| 5 | They have to take account not only of local white vested interests , but , more importantly , of foreign and multinational capital which controls a substantial proportion of its industries , though the government has been buying out some foreign , especially South African , firms . |
| 6 | It is just that being shown into the library , which has been shut up these many years , perhaps brought it home to me how very sad it was for … ’ |
| 7 | The object of the present discussion has been to point out some of those characteristics and examine some of the questions arising in relation to interpretation . |
| 8 | As has been pointed out many times in the past , sport is n't played on paper , it 's played on grass . |
| 9 | Over on the brown stuff , Andy Barker has been seeking out those remaining gems . |
| 10 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been sending out some rather confusing messages of late with regard to its position over the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment — DCE — initiative , which is more or less completely opposite to its own Open Network Computing , ONC environment . |
| 11 | Where Newco acquires Target , this does not of itself terminate any contract of employment between Target and its employees , but it is with a view to rationalising the business after it has been bought out that Target may decide to terminate certain contracts of employment ; Newco may also be seeking to vary the terms of employment of certain directors and employees . |
| 12 | Global competition in the automobile industry has been driving out many of the smaller firms . |
| 13 | No legislative action has been taken on either recommendation . |
| 14 | No action has been taken on this . |
| 15 | Counsel advice has been taken on this issue and it is concluded that debt restructuring is permitted by virtue of paragraph 1(1) ( c ) of Schedule 3 to the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1975 . |
| 16 | This has been switched on all afternoon and left flat . |
| 17 | Sharpe discovered that before his long absences through injury and illness ; Giggs has been finding out this year . |
| 18 | Developed from the Laser 28 , the RF290 has been notching up some impressive results , winning at least three class 1sts in the Hamble Winter Series . |
| 19 | Heavy losses are not new to this big Courage League Two club , but the full measure of their plight has been spelt out this week by Mr Hampson . |
| 20 | This motion has been put up this year because there are changing circumstances which really do require us to give elections to the C E C deeper consideration . |
| 21 | The stock-taking announcement , which was initially expected last year , has been put back several times . |
| 22 | It has been found out that , in the breeding tank at least , a three inch layer of gravel , not too small and not too large a grain , is best over the plates , then a ridged gravel tidy with another inch or two of gravel on top of that . |
| 23 | The extent of that remuneration can be known only when the assessment has been carried out that is provided by the legal aid scheme . |
| 24 | On the other hand Labour 's commission will start to develop proposals only after a broad social and economic ‘ audit ’ of the population has been carried out this year . |
| 25 | Although some have done this display before , the tension 's been building up all week . |
| 26 | Tension 's been building up all week . |
| 27 | He 's been made up this morning , he 's had a big tax rebate , fifteen hundred quid ! |
| 28 | Apparently this person 's been going out all hours of the day and night . ’ |
| 29 | Who 's been tearing up all the newspaper that the wet wellies were on ? |
| 30 | It 's the first time he 's been brought out this way as far as we know |