Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to our friends in Manila , ’ he says , chattily , as though the difference in our rank means nothing to him . |
| 3 | His eldest son , Bradford Wiley II , has been elected as his successor . |
| 4 | A new highly flexible manufacturing line employing leading production technology has been completed at our main plant in Wayne , PA , increasing our capacity to serve customers in both the US and Japan . |
| 5 | Corbett Farraday 's face fell , like a toddler whose jelly-baby has been snatched from its grasp . |
| 6 | An attractive programme of visits to both transport and cultural centres has been arranged for your interest . |
| 7 | When Margaret returns once more to Helstone , educated in reality by the industrial north , she is still grieved to find that it has disappeared and that a new one , tidy and respectable , has been built in its place . |
| 8 | Whilst much has been written about its open fields , the community at Laxton has received relatively little attention . |
| 9 | It is to my knowledge the first time that an ‘ in-depth ’ feature has been written about their service with the RAF and brought back many poignant memories for me for I was , to quote your September issue , ‘ one of the batch of National Service gunners posted to RAF Coningsby ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ A lot has been written about our loss of Hirst and Bright , but John Sheridan and Chris Waddle can be very important players for us , and there are other good players here capable of a goal . ’ |
| 11 | We can see what has been written on our medical records after November 1991 — but have no right to the earlier information . |
| 12 | Sufficient has been written in your columns about the latter match so I will not repeat the facts . |
| 13 | FOR the past five years , Thailand has been intoxicated by its success . |
| 14 | Carry on is message to tourism success story Tees Valley Tourism , a partnership between the public and private sectors , has been saved by its own success . |
| 15 | It is not the first time the 49-year-old premier 's health has been threatened by his demanding schedule . |
| 16 | They said hello cheerily as we passed , and for no particular reason other than mindless banter I concluded our exchange with some hopeless attempt at humour , which happily has been blacked from my memory . |
| 17 | Tragedy has been instructed by his record company , A&M , to take his song ‘ Bullet ’ from the group 's forthcoming album ‘ Black Range ’ , fearing that its inclusion would prompt an outcry among prominent US censorship campaigners . |
| 18 | It is he who has been instructed by our intelligence people in London how to conduct the operation with three friends . ’ |
| 19 | Nineteenth-century amateurism has been stood on its head . |
| 20 | More recently this argument has been stood on its head with the suggestion that it was the rise of factory production which caused the technological developments which have given us today 's machinery . |
| 21 | Marani has been assisted in his efforts by a highly distinguished panel of scholars including Giulio Carlo Argan , Antonio Paolucci , John Pope-Henessy , Craig Hugh Smyth and Giovanni Testori . |
| 22 | That 's why infidelity has been struck off my agenda . |
| 23 | Merson does n't hide the fact that he has been struggling with his weight . |
| 24 | The transformation of the Japanese economy over the past 30 years has been highlighted by its stunning record of growth in output , productivity and exports . |
| 25 | The theory of the new international division of labour has been criticized for its uncompromising condemnation of TNC operations in the Third World , on the grounds that there is not very much that is new about it and that it relies on an empirical base that is far too limited ( see , for example , Cohen , 1987 , ch.7 ; Jenkins , 1984 ; Gordon , 1988 ) . |
| 26 | City 's defence , which has conceeded 40 goals this season , has been strengthened since his arrival a month ago from St James ' Park . |
| 27 | The atmosphere moves from hard bop to cajun crunch and , for once , Billy boy has come up with a record that justifies all the praise that has been heaped on his shoulders . |
| 28 | And that has been determined by our marketing executive who has signed up the estate agent . |
| 29 | Kevin Maxwell has been appointed to his first job since he resigned as director of Mirror Group Newspapers following the collapse of Robert Maxwell 's business empire . |
| 30 | FATHER Noel Keane , SDS , parish priest of St Augustine 's , Runcorn , has been appointed by his provincial to Christ the King , Bristol , and will be succeeded by Father Georgio Malecki , SDS . |