Example sentences of "have been [prep] [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Philippe Morillon has set up headquarters in the town , which has been under Serb siege for 11 months , according to Laurens Jolles , of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 2 | One of its Knesset members is in prison for stealing from its own coffers , another has been charged with cooking the books and Mr Deri himself has been under police investigation for suspected financial irregularities for more than two years . |
| 3 | The black population has been under police surveillance for a long time . |
| 4 | The seven laureates hope to focus world attention on the plight of Ms Suu Kyi , who has been under house arrest in Burma since 1989 , and 1,500 other political prisoners of the junta . |
| 5 | The seven laureates hope to focus world attention on the plight of Ms Suu Kyi , who has been under house arrest in Burma since 1989 , and 1,500 other political prisoners of the junta . |
| 6 | Up to now , distribution has been via system integrators to the Federal and commercial markets , but it is now lowering retail prices for all its ViewStation FX Series of X terminals by 30% to 50% when it sells them direct . |
| 7 | Stephen has been with Clover Leaf since 1986 and is a full time-served apprentice and MoT tester . |
| 8 | Ian has been with Wood-Way engineering for nine years , and was previously employed by Weir Pumps . |
| 9 | His mother has been with Douglas Reyburn for twenty years , now working as a spinner in the mid-flat . |
| 10 | Margaret has been with Lyle Carpets for ten years . |
| 11 | For the past ten years , Bill has been with Lyle Carpets as Sales Agent for the Midlands Region . |
| 12 | There are two public sites in the Vale , one that has been at East Challow since the year dot and people have forgotten actually exist . |
| 13 | David , 27 , has been at Portman Road since 1988 but falls upon a North-East emissary like fond father upon prodigal son . |
| 14 | The 27-year-old centre-half has been at Stamford Bridge for the past two days with the hope of making a £500,000 move . |
| 15 | Magdalene has been at Clifford chance in the City of London for 18 months . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , general manager resins at Silvertown , has been to Nippon Paint in Japan on a fact-finding visit . |
| 17 | No wonder that the answer to the puzzle was AN EXCLUSIVE SCOOP and that is just what her entry has been for Ann Scudder of Dartford , Kent as she is the one to scoop up this fabulous prize . |
| 18 | Until now , Mr Major 's biggest fear has been of revenge attacks on the 2,400 British troops . |
| 19 | Mike Rowbottom has been inside Grendon Prison in Buckinghamshire , where the prisoners face a regime that 's unique in Britain . |
| 20 | Their head has been in t touch with the bed , their heels , but the whole body 's been arched like a bow with the contraction of these muscles . |
| 21 | A hardy , naturally polled breed of a type which has been in southwest Scotland for centuries , the Galloway is capable of growing a thick , shaggy coat of long , rain-shedding hairs over its thick , soft , mossy undercoat to protect itself in the cold , damp climate of the region . |
| 22 | There are greater additions to expenditure than that , but there , that has been in part off-set by er , a greater er er receipt from other authorities in relating to er policemen transferring to Lincolnshire . |
| 23 | A Soviet Deputy Defence Minister , General Varrenikov , has been in Addis Ababa for the past week . |
| 24 | Fat Albert , as it 's affectionally called , has been in RAF service for twenty five years . |
| 25 | Coton , last season 's choice by his fellow professionals as the country 's top goalkeeper , has been in England squads for two years but is still awaiting a first full cap . |
| 26 | This readiness to see a company that has been in state hands since 1922 pass into private , maybe foreign , ownership is rare . |
| 27 | Formerly an accountant with Ferranti , he has been in BCU HQ since October in order to prepare the BCU annual accounts . |
| 28 | The wild card in the race , Ross Perot , sent out word that he had no regrets about his longshot bid for the White House , which has been in Republican hands for 12 years . |
| 29 | Captain 'd been at Combe Court for ages and ages I think , cos he knew everyone , even the very poorly ones like Glenda . |
| 30 | However convenient the conflict of love and honour may have been to Anthony Hope as the motive force of his books , he treated it seriously within their emotional climate . |