Example sentences of "[num] [noun] have been [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the debate in social services in the past 30 years has been about community care — what it is an how to achieve it . |
| 2 | More than 300 workers have been on strike since 29 January over a dispute about enforced lay-offs . |
| 3 | At the end of December 1980 , the returns to the Committee on Jail Reform indicated that almost 7,000 ( 8 per cent ) of the 92,000 undertrials had been in gaol for over one year , and 2,500 of these had been held for more than two years . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean , if this six weeks had been with U2 or Faith No More , we 'd obviously be doing better than we are . |
| 5 | All the pre-race buzz among the 12,000 crowd had been about Ben Johnson . |
| 6 | All three companies have been in receipt of money raised by ‘ unusual ’ means . |
| 7 | Have you ever been in love ? , are you now ? , button one for yes , button two for no and in this hundred , woof ninety three people have been in love , what , what happened ? , |
| 8 | After last week 's further note on the ineffectiveness of Neighbourhood Watch schemes in Darlington , another three people have been in touch . |
| 9 | There were furious debates in respect of schemes for Oxford and Bath , but the biggest single reversal of policy concerned London , where for many years three ringways had been in mind . |
| 10 | 1992/93 maintenance had been for file-servers , high-performance PCs , and critical laser printers only . |
| 11 | A period of two and a half years of which fifteen months have been for construction . |
| 12 | In particular , who in the nine months has been in charge of this section and shown great dedication and commitment . |
| 13 | ‘ Independent Liability ’ — This is the maximum payable under a policy in the event of there being more than one policy in force covering the subject matter of the claim but where neither policy is more specific , i.e. the amount which would have been payable if only one policy had been in force . |
| 14 | Up in the desolate Arctic region of Vorkuta , site of perhaps Stalin 's most infamous Gulag camp , miners in nine of the area 's 13 pits have been on strike for more than a week against dismal living conditions , and the bureaucracy of the Communist Party and Soviet government . |
| 15 | I am aware , however , that surveying techniques of the last 150 years have been to standards of accuracy of centimetres over the same sort of distance and landscape . |
| 16 | Against the Alan , as many as twenty tumans had been in operation , their movement co-ordinated with incredible accuracy . |
| 17 | In this process of adaptation , what was really wanted was European power : the demands of the Hundred Days had been for arms , railways and schools . |
| 18 | Four planes have been on standy here for a number of days . |
| 19 | He stressed that his advice to go ahead with detailed planning for the £5 million junction had been for guidance only and that the full approval of the CIOR would still have to be sought before the junction was commissioned . |
| 20 | In a way , these two things have been in conflict right the way through the history of climbing . |
| 21 | SunSelect — Sun 's PC-to-Unix connectivity satellite — demonstrated technology enabling NT users to access Unix systems via PC-NFS at last November 's Comdex Fall trade show and the two firms have been in discussions ever since . |
| 22 | By this time the reader will have noticed , and perhaps wondered … the writer is a member of a large family , yet so far only four characters have been on parade : Mum , Dad , Sam and Carl . |
| 23 | Since about 1938 Ho had been in China , first at the communist headquarters in Yenan then , apparently , with Chinese Nationalist forces , finally in Kwangsi and Yunnan which were close enough for him to attempt to resume contact with the Party inside Vietnam . |
| 24 | ‘ Our only defeat in four internationals has been against England and we deserved a place in the World Cup , ’ said Mills , who gained 13 Welsh caps between 1975–79 . |
| 25 | By April 1986 , 186,711 men had been without work for more than five years , a sum nearly five times greater than the same group four decades earlier . |
| 26 | DH Lawrence 's " The Rainbow " was destroyed in 1915 , and " The Well of Loneliness " suffered the same fate in 1928 at the hands of a magistrate who felt that a passage which implied that two women had been to bed ( " And that night they were not divided " ) would induce " thoughts of a most impure character " and " glorify a horrible tendency " . |
| 27 | The seven children have been in care since November 1990 after their father was convicted of sexually abusing them . |