Example sentences of "have been step [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The search for Dennis Garvey has been stepped up after a post mortem revealed his wife had died from hammer blows to the head . |
| 2 | A police investigation at a school for disturbed children has been stepped up after claims of abuse going back more than twenty years . |
| 3 | Beyond it lay , if she had chosen to conjure them up , unwashed coffee cups , trousers lying where they had been stepped out of , heaped dusty papers ring-stained with wine-glasses , a carpet full of dust and ashes , the smell of socks and other smells . |
| 4 | The chemical industry 's efforts to secure insurance have been stepped up following the publication of a number of European directives suggesting a move towards much wider compulsory compensation for environmental damage . |
| 5 | ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring on beaches at Sellafield have been stepped up following the discovery of a grass-like substance . |