Example sentences of "[verb] been [prep] [noun] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Srebrenica has been under Serb siege since the Bosnian civil war began 11 months ago . |
| 2 | So our emphasis has been on cost reduction and internal quality issues . |
| 3 | The Bishop of Gloucester , the right reverend Peter Ball , has been on rest leave since he was first interviewed by police in December . |
| 4 | The emphasis in schools has been on computer science and CAL . |
| 5 | Throughout most of this period the focus has been on government records and then mainly at a national level , although in rare instances the issues have been addressed at a more local level . |
| 6 | It is nevertheless significant that , however much anti-German growling there has been on Capitol Hill since the invasion of Kuwait , little has been heard within the administration . |
| 7 | William , who has been on invalidity benefit since the accident , accepted a settlement of £70,000 a few days before the case started . |
| 8 | Since the crisis began in the late 1970s , spending on education below tertiary level has been at rock bottom and health little better . |
| 9 | The general trend over the years has been for LDC governments and state enterprises to rely increasingly on international banks rather than official transfers , i.e. foreign aid , to meet their foreign currency financial needs . |
| 10 | Ricardo International plc has been in engine research and problem-solving for 75 years , and the world 's biggest motor names bring their problems to Ricardo 's door . |
| 11 | She is Dutch , in her late twenties , and she has been in North Africa for one-and-a-half years . |
| 12 | You 'd been to convent school as well , you said . |
| 13 | She 'd been to South Africa and showed us some lovely diamonds . |
| 14 | I only wish I could have been with Mr Grant when he researched the feature . |
| 15 | Oh it 'll likely have been about Blair Gowrie or Pitlochry or some place , just anybody who would have taken him in . |
| 16 | We could have been like George Sand and Chopin ; greater than them ! and Gustave insists on disappearing for three months with that ambitious catamite of his . |
| 17 | With fewer of those serving having been to Sunday school and with the small number of hymns learnt at school , the repertoire is very limited . |
| 18 | Lewis , whose youthful enthusiasm had been for Norse sagas and the verse tales of William Morris , seems to have been converted to Christianity by considering whether the Christian myth might not , after all ‘ be something more than a fiction . |
| 19 | The junior leader training at the Army Apprentice College at Harrogate had been on weekend leave and was due back at 11pm on Sunday . |
| 20 | Elie had been at Tiger Haven before they both arrived and that apparently confirmed the pecking order . |
| 21 | McLeish , warmed by the fact that she had taken the trouble to find out a bit about him , confirmed he had been at Reading University and had worked as a young sergeant in the Flying Squad . |
| 22 | He had come here on a misunderstanding ; believing that Wavebreaker had been at Murder Cay when in fact we had not even been within sight of that mysterious island . |
| 23 | Mrs MacIllarry and her two children , aged 2 and 4 , had been with Mrs Smith when she was shot . |
| 24 | Fields had spent some months , and a modest amount of money , examining the feasibility of a new transatlantic airline ; he had approached several key figures who had been with Laker Airways and solicited their interest ; he had begun to make enquiries about purchasing an aircraft . |
| 25 | Previously he had been with Intel Corp and Burroughs . |
| 26 | The United Provinces , as they were then known , had been under Habsburg rule and began a 40-year war with Spain for their national independence in the 1570s . |
| 27 | The Foreign Minister was Nguyen Tuong Tam who had been in south China but not as an associate of Ho Chi Minh ( he fled from Hanoi in June 1946 ) . |
| 28 | The court heard that Wilson , who had been in South Africa since the offences , married in May of this year . |
| 29 | Later , Julia discovered that the German army in question had been in South Africa and that Colonel Scotland 's appointment had ended some years before the Great War . |
| 30 | I had been in New York when Masquerade was stolen . |