Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour have been talking Britain down so hard , relishing every piece of bad news , rubbing their hands at any failure in public services , that they have chosen to forget what a great country Britain really is , ’ said the broadcast . |
| 2 | Nor would such a study have been given permission by the RUC , for it is utopian to expect police authorities in divided societies to open up these sections of their force to scrutiny and observation by outsiders . |
| 3 | Four members of Wear Valley District Council 's leisure and marketing department have been awarded certificates . |
| 4 | The man who listened into an alleged conversation between the Princess of Wales and a male friend says only parts of his tape have been made public , and that far more damaging sections may soon be revealed . |
| 5 | In the meantime , all four major further education teacher training centres in England — Huddersfield and Wolverhampton Polytechnics , Bolton Institute of Higher Education , and Garnett College have been developing proposals for pre-service courses leading to a BEd . |
| 6 | Tolerance and openness have been made excuses for much which is in fact lubricious ( and usually commercial ) exploitation of them . |
| 7 | Pensioners at the complex have been collecting money to help the town 's hospice appeal for the last two years . |
| 8 | Opponents of the Big Bonus have been issuing handbills and vidmail shots featuring T-H-R scene-of-the-crime photographs from the horrific quadruple cheerleader-slaying in Columbus , Ohio , of last December . |
| 9 | Recently , some members of the Jockey Club have been throwing insults at the big commercial bookmakers and the state-run betting system , known as the Tote . |
| 10 | A THOUSAND stalkers on the Scottish hills this winter have been shooting deer to keep their record numbers under control . |
| 11 | The entrails of the law have been choking press freedoms throughout the nineteen eighties . |
| 12 | The entrails of the law have been choking press freedoms throughout the nineteen eighties . |
| 13 | But a high proportion have been offered jobs in their first placement , and we fully intend to offer the programme again next year . ’ |
| 14 | Hundreds of members of the Women 's Institute have been lobbying MPs at Westminster today over their fears about food irradiation . |
| 15 | Members of its executive council have been collecting signatures in the border region . |
| 16 | Talented trendspotters in Oxfam 's 27,000-strong shop volunteer-force have been amassing stocks of women 's and men 's wear to meet demand . |
| 17 | Two policemen who helped convict a fraudulent investment consultant have been given certificates of commendation . |
| 18 | However , it should be noted that the LIFESPAN development team have been running LIFESPAN with a very large number of modules for some considerable time , and despite many VMS crashes , none have had any effect on the self consistency of LIFESPAN . |
| 19 | Someone — for example , an elderly person — for whom you have been caring at home and in consequence have been getting income support ( or supplementary benefit in the past ) |
| 20 | Negotiations between the National Trust and MoD have been taking place for two years and have reached a critical stage . |
| 21 | Some people in this town have been saying things about me . |
| 22 | Workmen on the site have been helping archaeologists to find the remaining skeletons . |
| 23 | Croydon YHA Group have been organising Wheelchair Rambles for many years . |
| 24 | Following the announcement by President Clinton that his administration would introduce a range of measures to encourage energy conservation [ see ED 68 ] , further details about the proposed federal energy tax have been made public . |
| 25 | Thus older people predominate among long-term claimants : 75 per cent of people aged 60 and over have been receiving Income Support for three years or more , compared with 40 per cent of those under 60 ; elderly people comprise 60 per cent of those receiving this benefit for five years or more . |
| 26 | Most of us are aware that the traditional aims of death education have been to socialise individuals to the inevitable event in their lives . |
| 27 | While those in Canada are pushed around , those on the other side of the border have been given permission by Washington to run bingo halls , the only legitimate gambling in the area . |
| 28 | In what seems like a big complement on our powers of imagination , Unix System Laboratories chief Roel Pieper and Chuck Reilly , vice president of operations at the Open Software Foundation have been re-writing history , claiming at Utrecht a few weeks back that the press made up the entire Unix Wars all by themselves : ‘ they never happened ’ pleaded Rielly , who did n't join OSF until 1989 , after some of the worst was over . |
| 29 | Burgon and Ball have been making shears in Sheffield for over 200 . |
| 30 | Dwr Cymru Cwf ( Welsh Water ) , Mid Sussex Water Company and Anglian Water Service have been fined £20,000 , £20,000 and £18,000 respectively , putting them in seventh , eighth and ninth place in the list . |