Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] have been [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , he enters 1991 without an economic plan or budget ( so everyone is having to improvise with last year 's targets ) , and without a prime minister to blame for mismanagement ( Nikolai Ryzhkov , who for months had been under pressure to resign and was about to be sidelined anyway , had a heart attack on December 25th ) . |
| 2 | Lord James told the committee an extension of hours had been under consideration since the 1970s . |
| 3 | One former member of the Royal Corps of Signals had been to Hong Kong preventing the ‘ illegal entry of persons ’ , which would have come in handy for protecting intruders at Goldfinger 's headquarters . |
| 4 | ‘ A team of counsellors has been on duty over the weekend between 8am and 8pm and the helpline will remain live between these hours daily until 5pm on Friday , February 26 . |
| 5 | In recent years , virtually all domestic issues of bonds have been by means of a placing . |
| 6 | It has been shown that most suicide attempters are aware of the existence of agencies where they could obtain help , such as the general practitioner , social workers , or the Samaritans ( Kreitman and Chowdhury 1973b ) ; in fact , a significant proportion of attempters had been in touch with one or more of these agencies in the weeks preceding the attempt ( Bancroft et al. 1977 ) . |
| 7 | The balance of payments has been in surplus every year but two , external debt is less than 1% of official foreign reserves , and inflation has averaged only 2.2% in the past five years . |
| 8 | The conference heard that out of 732 post-mortem examinations — on victims of the Air India Boeing which crashed into the Atlantic near Cork , Zeebrugge , Piper Alpha , Lockerbie and Kegworth — 80.22 per cent of identifications had been through dentistry records . |
| 9 | Just over 70 per cent of students had been in receipt of an SERC award whilst on their Advanced Course . |
| 10 | As noted in Chapter 3 , 71 per cent of students had been in receipt of SERC finance for their Advanced Course ( Table 3.5 ) . |
| 11 | The emphasis in schools has been on computer science and CAL . |
| 12 | Although the report was not published , it convinced Mosley of Jewish dominance in British society and that over half the assaults committed on fascists had been by Jews . |
| 13 | His coaching and help at nets has been of benefit to all our players . ’ |
| 14 | A Swiss ban on night driving by lorries had been in force since 1933 . |