Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 Work has been completed on extending the platform at Ruswarp Station near Whitby .
2 A HIGHLAND laird has been prosecuted for putting his estate workers in danger during a demolition job .
3 Now , at 19 , I do n't believe my life has been impaired by having aged parents .
4 As a first step , joint financing has been arranged for cleaning up the Dnepr river , one of the main polluters of the Black Sea .
5 Housing has been built on housing land and industrial land has either been retained for industrial purposes or is being redesignated by the planning process itself .
6 Much has been written on opening up a dialogue and creating collaboration on reading between home and school .
7 Frances Stevens ( 1970 ) in reviewing the marking of examiners in A-level English literature , compares the gradings given to two particular scripts and reveals how much information has been lost in labelling the girl C and the boy D :
8 The circulation success has been complimented by rising readership — 175,000 people now read the Irish News every day , an increase of 33pc since 1988 according to the NI Readership survey .
9 A wildlife site of international importance in Dorset has been saved from housing development by the intervention of the Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine .
10 A stately home has been saved from falling down by its new owners .
11 DHSS has been engaged on seeking to co-ordinate the planning of health and social services .
12 The strategy unit has been engaged in raising awareness and educating managers and trade unionists all over Australia .
13 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 .
14 A range of elegant techniques has been developed for characterising new genetic mutations — all the techniques rely on the generation by the polymerase chain reaction of large quantities of DNA fragments from normal and mutant alleles .
15 Appropriate methodology has been developed for examining the historical tracking performance of large-scale macroeconometric models which contain model-consistent expectations and this now enables attention to be focused upon historical counter-factual experiments , paying particular attention to the treatment of policy in such exercises .
16 It is also more tentative because much of the material has been developed by using a psychoanalytic perspective and so is about people 's subjective experiences .
17 It has been developed by responding to the needs of 13,000 customers over 11 years .
18 Cixous has been criticized for lacking a politics and a theory of the social .
19 ‘ Scientific management 's ’ mechanistic and materialistic model of the individual has been criticized for taking no account of other motives for work and , by implication , the diverse interests of which people might be conscious as members of groups and wish to protect and advance through group action .
20 Snell has been criticized for causing a decline in handwriting by promoting his dull copperplate style , but his practice and teaching of a simpler and standardized mode of handwriting most effectively met the needs of clerks in the growing number of commercial houses .
21 Clarity , which anticipated becoming that magical $100m company , has been criticized for putting in a $100m company 's infrastructure complete with six vice presidents long before it could financially justify it .
22 German Greenpeace , the second-largest branch of of Greenpeace International , has been criticized for spending only a third of donations on campaigns and putting much of the rest aside .
23 The analysis described above has been criticized for treating debt and taxation asymmetrically .
24 One anthropologist who studied an even more elaborately created system of autonomy than the Zuwaya 's has been criticized for ignoring routine and frequent contact between autonomous leaders and state governments : so it is academically important to probe into the actual relations of Zuwaya and Magharba with the Turkish authorities .
25 Thus the Vienna Sales Convention has been criticized for excluding questions relating to the validity of the contract of sale , the transfer of property , or the resolution of property disputes between the seller or buyer and a third party .
26 But ECC 's balance sheet has been strengthened by redeeming US auction preferred shares and restructuring debts .
27 Islington 's provision is better than most , yet the Director of Social Services , John Rea Price , feels Islington has been penalised for attempting to carry out the Government 's own directives on community care .
28 Hammersmith has been prevented from alleviating its position because in February Nicholas Ridley , then Environment Secretary , blocked further transactions .
29 Until now , the Authority has been prevented from taking action because of a Water Act requirement that samples be collected over a 12 month period .
30 The government has responded with engineering works to prevent the rivers ' winter and spring floods reaching the marshes ; according to the UN , water has been prevented from reaching up to two-thirds of the marshes this spring .
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