Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contract discussions have been under way since early this year , according to West German sources . |
| 2 | The other side chains shown are in contact with the phosphate backbone . |
| 3 | At the rally Chief Buthelezi called on the ANC leader , Nelson Mandela , to ‘ stop posturing ’ and join him at a series of public meetings to eradicate violence in areas where ANC and Inkatha supporters have been at war . |
| 4 | However , all the speed thresholds mentioned are for guidance only . |
| 5 | The Brigade positions had been under attack for the past four days and Nos. 3 , 4 , 6 , and 45 Royal Marine Commando had been having their share of casualties . |
| 6 | The data points shown are for QDOT ( , ref. 6 ; ○ , refs 2 , 3 ) , the bulk-flow field ( i ) and the power spectrum extrapolated from the COBE quadrupole measurement , assuming a scale-invariant spectrum ( ○ ) , with 1 error bars . |
| 7 | Texas Instruments has been in Japan 25 years , has around $1,000m in Japan-based revenues and — in direct contrast to Intel Corp — is a significant manufacturing presence , with four plants employing 3,500 in manufacturing plus another 2,000 in sales and administrative jobs . |
| 8 | Commentators suggested that the Khmers Rouges had been under pressure from their Chinese backers to accept the Sihanouk plan . |
| 9 | 5–9- " There was laid on the table a minute of the Deacons ' Court of date from which it appeared that the subject of the conversion of the Schoolhouse into dwelling houses had been under consideration , and that the Court had agreed to submit the proposal to the congregation for its opinion . " |
| 10 | Two groups of council officials have been in London pleading for more money from the government . |
| 11 | Forty-six Law Lords had been to Oxford or Cambridge , seven to Scottish universities , four to Trinity College Dublin , two to London University ( one of whom had also been to Cambridge ) and one to Queen 's Belfast . |
| 12 | Disputes between planners and private sector developers have been over matters of detail . |
| 13 | Earlier this week , he asked how effective the flood defences had been on February 20 and what changes to policy , investment programme and evacuation procedures were planned . |
| 14 | The most complex and prolonged human/dolphin associations have been with bottlenose dolphins , but Doak thinks that they are by no means limited to this species . |
| 15 | And if it does , will the task-force leaders become in time what the product managers have been at Proctor & Gamble : the basic units of management and the company 's field officers ? |
| 16 | Many of these people , training providers , employers and job seekers have been in touch to tell us how worthwhile the events were . |
| 17 | Although employment protection provisions have been in place for 18 years now , all too often reports of unfair dismissal cases are variations on the same theme : companies trying to get rid of pregnant employees in an effort to avoid extra expense and disruption to the working routine . |
| 18 | Mr Kinnock , however , has moved Labour back to the centre and since 1987 the two former Alliance parties have been in disarray . |
| 19 | A program of research into leadership styles has been in operation at Ohio State University since 1945 . |
| 20 | Hundreds of staff at polytechnic and further education colleges have been on strike in a protest over pay . |
| 21 | The UK hotels involved are in Aberdeen , Bristol , Newcastle and Reading . |
| 22 | But not all station encampments have been of rail travellers . |
| 23 | In Ireland , credit unions have been in existence for a decade longer than in Britain , but there are now over 450 unions , with a membership exceeding three-quarters of a million . |
| 24 | The pick of Britain 's finest Hereford beef cattle has been on sale today . |
| 25 | Joint consultative committees and joint care planning teams have been in place since the 1974 reorganisation of the NHS , but joint finance of community care projects on any significant scale dates from 1976 . |
| 26 | Exchange rate changes have been at times suggested as a justifiable response to productivity growth rate differentials . |
| 27 | ‘ Some of the breeding monkeys had been at Shamrock for seven or eight years . |
| 28 | Most breeding records have been from lakes or ponds with good marginal vegetation , such as Shillinglee , Lurgashall , and Burton ponds , or from small , sometimes quite insignificant , streams and marshes in the interior . |
| 29 | If Pinewood studios had been in need of a resident historian — and the days of historical dramas emanating from that studio seemed themselves to have been consigned to history-Kenneth Williams would have fulfilled that role . |
| 30 | Reports on March 26 , quoting Kurdish sources , said that Kurdish pesh merga guerrillas had been in control of the oil centre of Kirkuk for seven days during which they had sustained intensive shelling and air attacks by Iraqi government forces . |