Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [vb -s] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | this is the book he was talking about that 's been brought back if anyone wants it . |
| 2 | Erm , in paragraph thirteen , Invest in People , the target date for er , achievement in the award has been delayed from the twenty seventh of , sorry the twenty eighth of February , until the twentieth of May , and the reason for that has been staff effort required to get community action going . |
| 3 | Technology for that has been licensed to Canada , China and Australia . |
| 4 | One reason for this has been the deference shown by the Court of Appeal to the expertise of the Commissioners , a deference which appears to be justified by the thoroughness of the re-examination of the cases by the Commissioners . |
| 5 | One justification for this has been given : research is public , whereas higher education is private . |
| 6 | One suggestion is that badgers take advantage of the different temperatures and humidities at different times of the year , and support for this has been provided by Dr Roper 's latest badger research , a radio-tracking study with colleague Sean Christian . |
| 7 | The policy justification for this has been questioned . |
| 8 | The need for this has been argued strongly by economists critical of mainstream public finance , notably in the work of Buchanan . |
| 9 | A main reason for this has been that developments have concentrated on creating ‘ single-purpose ’ areas , for example only office blocks , shopping areas or housing estates rather than a mixture . |
| 10 | A major reason for this has been the move by customers away from cash transactions to cheque and credit card transactions . |
| 11 | After that has been discovered the temperance reformer may decide that the corkscrew was made for a bad purpose , and the communist may think the same about the cathedral . |
| 12 | This after all has been the experience of traditional paper archives and libraries in the recent past . |
| 13 | The contribution of each has been influential in the development of such areas a robotics , natural language understanding , speech recognition and expert systems . |
| 14 | Blumenthal ( 1969 ) suggests that six strategies are possible and these are discussed first , although the meaning of each has been changed somewhat to take account of the technological and other developments that have taken place since that text was published . |
| 15 | The impact of that has been different for older and younger generations and has affected the position of each generation in relation to financial support from relatives , and also assistance with accommodation . |
| 16 | One result of that has been a proposal I made in 1983 with Jim Hartle of the University of California at Santa Barbara : that both time and space are finite in extent , but they do n't have any boundary or edge . |
| 17 | Since then , more than one-third of that has been moved to the private sector . |
| 18 | A lot of that has been set aside in substance and certainly in the attitudes and language which come from the government . |
| 19 | Er , Reeves has been sold er , and so erm , the cost of that has been er , crystallized now and so that 's no longer a problem . |
| 20 | We anticipate a shortfall of fifteen thousand pounds compared to our original budget and what we 've done in that is we 've taken an element of seven thousand in a sense below the line so that it does n't affect this committee , but this committee has had to find eight thousand pounds with that shortfall and now the bulk of that has been met by the savings we found elsewhere in the budget and the final item there is er setting up a consultants budget of ten thousand pounds , there 's not a consultants budget of any significance at , at the moment of the committee erm the County Planning Officer anticipates there 's a need for consultants in the minerals local plan work which we 're coming into this year and also to assist in environmental assessments er and special on that . |
| 21 | And er the result of all of that has been that the current development programme scheduled which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running . |
| 22 | Secondly the deliveries of the equipment from the equipment suppliers who had been selected er generally fell behind the promises which they had made , so the main reason for the technical delays has been lack of equipment of the correct standard to proceed with the integration programme erm the erm the problems which beset the programme in nineteen ninety two after the German minister started questioning its future clearly had a direct bearing on that because many of the equipment suppliers , particularly those in Germany , suddenly began to think hey this programme is not going anywhere , why should we invest a lot of effort and and money into it and they slowed down so that has had a knock on effect in in terms of delaying the total programme and erm the result of all of that has been that the current development programme schedule which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running . |
| 23 | Nearly all of that has been turned over to animal feed . |
| 24 | Last year was the centenary of the Borough Charters , so on the one hand I was trying to restore the traditions of the thing — erm we tried to reintroduce some of the pomp and ceremonial — and then on the other hand I felt that the mayoralty often did n't seem terribly relevant to people of my generation , and so I tried to involve a lot of young people in various activities and the offshoot of that has been a Youth Advisory Committee which I 've set up , which at the moment is in the process of trying to negotiate with the County Council for some premises to try and increase the sort of Youth Club type evening provision in the town . |
| 25 | And then on the other hand , I felt that the mayoralty often did n't seem terribly relevant to people of my generation , and so I tried to involve a lot of young people in various activities , and the offshoot of that has been a Youth Advisory Committee which I set up , which at the moment is in the process of trying to negotiate with the County Council for some premises to try and increase the sort of youth club type evening provision in the town . |
| 26 | Some of that 's been done though has n't it ? |
| 27 | The best example of this has been the deployment of the HST fleet . |
| 28 | Some of this has been given by grant making trusts to specific projects . |
| 29 | All of this has been achieved with an inevitability which few batsmen since Bradman have been able to suggest , and in 111 Tests at the end of the 1989–90 series he was just ten runs short of 8,000 at an average of 51 . |
| 30 | The most noticeable effect of this has been very high levels of unemployment in France ( 2.8 million in October 1991 ) . |