Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun pl] have be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Policies with prefix letters PM or FM ( Motor Car ) , MC ( Motor Cycle ) or CM ( Commercial Vehicle — excluding policies numbered lower than 100,000 ) will qualify for a Special Discount of just under 6% where the policies have been in force continuously for at least three years when they are renewed during the year commencing 1st July 1981 . |
| 2 | Listening to the Minister today , it was hard to appreciate that the Conservatives have been in government for 13 years . |
| 3 | Yet just at that moment — one occasionally suspects that the mythmakers have been at work on the story — the lookout sighted sails on the western horizon . |
| 4 | The Paras have been jumping into one of the dropping zones on Salisbury Plain since first light , so the Scouts have been on standby on the DZ in case there should be any casualties . |
| 5 | But otherwise I just reckon there will be something around — or if the locusts have been at the fridge , well , I can always go out . ’ |
| 6 | Neighbour Eleanor Kane said : ‘ I did n't know the young woman but the police have been to the flat a few times . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Tory Party smoke screens a week before the General Election can not obscure the fact that crime has increased while the Conservatives have been in power . ’ |
| 8 | Vacuum thoroughly about twice a week and lightly as necessary when the children have been at play . |
| 9 | At present , only 18 people in the Health and Safety Executive are working on those regulations , and even though the provisions have been in operation for about two and a half years , fewer than one third of the safety cases have been accepted as being proper working documents . |