Example sentences of "they have [been] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Psalms offer a rich mixture of spiritual , literary and musical expression and they have been at the heart of the Church 's daily worship since biblical times . |
| 2 | The views of the CBI could scarcely be clearer than they have been on the subject of the minimum wage . |
| 3 | And if they have been on the market the terms have often been unreasonable , with little attempt made to advertise them . |
| 4 | Most do not qualify for redundancy pay , pensions , sick pay or national-insurance benefits until they have been with a firm for two years . |
| 5 | Another approach to the competence question has been to ask clients , retrospectively , how satisfied they have been with the service they have had ( Rosenthal 1974 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ They are old friends and they have been through a lot worse than this over the years . |
| 7 | Houses are no longer the gold-plated investment they have been since the war . |
| 8 | And they have been in a position to determine the way they are investigated and the manner of their public exposure . |
| 9 | This has been in part because the universities have a perfectly general responsibility for disseminating among schools up-to-date advances in knowledge and theoretical changes within disciplines , but also , more specifically , through the Local Examination Boards they have been in a position to determine the syllabuses for public examinations , and so to a large extent to dictate a curriculum even for those pupils at school who may never themselves enter the door of a university . |
| 10 | It applies to all goods in the categories listed in the box , irrespective of the time they have been in a country . |
| 11 | Indeed , introduced as they have been in a climate of manpower cuts by an allegedly insensitive senior management , the main effects of these developments may be to produce ‘ not just disgruntled employees ’ but also ‘ ineffective organisation ’ ( Plowden , 1985 , p. 410 ) . |
| 12 | They have been in the middle of war and think nothing of hearing shooting all round them . |
| 13 | And she added : ‘ There are not many girls who can say they have been in the ladies with their boyfriend . ’ |
| 14 | For example , if they have been in the Chaos terrains of locations 60–63 and a Dwarf character fell into the Nurglesque marshes , one puppet will enact this while another ( preferably an Elf Puppet , to antagonize the Dwarf adventurer ) conducts a running commentary : ‘ Oh look , boys and girls , the stunty 's fallen down . |
| 15 | I have dealt at some length with the arrangements for mandatory support because they have been in the limelight recently and because they are the direct responsibility of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State . |
| 16 | They have been in the squad several times before but have yet to get on the pitch , even for a couple of minutes . |
| 17 | What they have been in the past , in the face of their grim working lives , is resilient . |
| 18 | Both the American and British governments are cloaking these new operations in a shroud of secrecy though it is unlikely any politician has the slightest idea what the two agencies are planning to do or that they even care if laws are broken as they have been in the past . |
| 19 | Homosexuality between consenting adults aged 21 or over , and abortion during a certain period of pregnancy , are not criminal offences at present , although they have been in the past . |
| 20 | As a generalization , competitors are more open with each other that they have been in the past and there is much more information available . |
| 21 | We pay attention to those salient features which are constitutive of the type of genre , and expect that the peripheral features will be as they have been in the past . |
| 22 | If these twin policies are to have any effect in reducing geographical inequalities , they need to be pursued more vigorously than they have been in the past . |
| 23 | For their part , ministers are accountable to Parliament , so ministers are the vital link in the chain between the civil service and Parliament and , indeed , they have been in the past not merely a link but a barrier . |
| 24 | A thorough overhaul of the educational process will ensure that standards remain as high in the future as they have been in the past . |
| 25 | And erm so I do n't think the issues of affordable supply are quite the same as they have been in the past and I think it 's a very relevant consideration for this particular structure plan . |
| 26 | We need to recognise that some letters will take longer to answer that public loos will not be as fully attended as they have been in the past . |
| 27 | Although these areal units will alter less with time than administrative units , they are nonetheless transitory and so , ideally , smaller and more permanent units like kilometre grid squares should be used , as they have been by the OPCS in a limited fashion , as the basic building block . |