Example sentences of "have been [prep] the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would allow a tremendous movement of people from under-utilised accommodation to smaller accommodation and would allow many people who have been on the waiting list for council houses for many years to be moved into smaller accommodation . |
| 2 | ‘ I have been on the parish council at Saughall for more years than I care to remember — eighteen , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Aldermaston-based Blue Circle Industries ' group car fleet manager Norman Gross says : ‘ Diesels have been on the car choice list for some time . |
| 4 | I travelled up from Kings Cross with Sidney , Daryl Bligh of the Graphic , K. B. D. Clarke of the Times , ‘ Tibby ’ Tisdale of the News , Stanford Roberts , of course , and I think we had Norton Malley with us , who would at that time I suppose have been on the Morning Post , though he later went back to the Irish Times . |
| 5 | ‘ Hot metal ’ glue guns have been on the d-i-y market for some time . |
| 6 | However , the most striking developments in welfare services have been on the delivery side rather than the personal counselling aspect . |
| 7 | Hounslow 's headquarters have been at the Church Meadow ground for 70 years but sharing with a cricket club makes it impossible to lay a synthetic surface there . |
| 8 | Recent exhibitions have been at the Whitechapel Art Gallery and abroad in Toronto , Paris , Pittsburg , Maastricht , Antwerp , Madrid and Los Angeles . |
| 9 | The same year , the society received thirteen massive Assyrian bas-reliefs from the palace of Sardanapalus in Nineveh c.650 B.C. from James Lenox ( one of the founders of the New York Public Library ) and in 1859–60 , the Society purchased a large collection of Egyptian art ( featuring several mummified bulls ) from British physician Dr Henry Abbott for $60,000 ( since 1937 , these have been at the Brooklyn Museum , which purchased them from Flemish the Historical Society in 1978 ) . |
| 10 | And any of you who have been to the United States may have experienced this . |
| 11 | I have been to the Benefits Agency in my constituency , where the manager and staff made it plain to me that if staff were concerned about their safety they would not wear a name badge — but most of them want to because they want to be able to be identified by the public , so that if someone rings up a week later he can identify the person to whom he spoke a week before . |
| 12 | Swindon 's glory days in the FA Cup were a long time ago while Cambridge have been to the quarter finals two years running . |
| 13 | I receive letters throughout the year from people who have been to the Summer Exhibition wanting to know more about my work . |
| 14 | Half of all the records since 1947 have been for the period mid-February to mid-April , particularly March , with 30 per cent. , which suggests that there is a fairly regular , although small , spring movement through the county . |
| 15 | As far as is known all the records have been for the period spring to autumn . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ We have been onto the borough council to have sleeping policemen installed , because drivers are using the alleyway as a short cut . ’ |
| 17 | Around 730,000 of the new registrations have been through the Share Information Office and the rest with the many Share Shops set up by banks , building societies and other financial firms . |
| 18 | ( e ) Self-help groups : The rehabilitation programme can be the setting off point for a self-help group , so that patients who have been through the exercise programme , which may well last anything from 4–12 weeks , can continue to meet and exercise together with friends they have made . |
| 19 | Then again , too many young people have been through the finals course , often at considerable financial hardship to themselves or their families , only to find that they can not be absorbed into a recession-hit profession . |
| 20 | Most of them have been about the health warning on the advertisement being obscured or obliterated , some have referred to their being too close to schools . |
| 21 | They 're keen bird-watchers and their best sightings have been from the laboratory windows which overlook very special conservation areas . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's a heart-breaking decision for me to make , but I have been in the firing line of late with the suspensions and I have struggled with injuries all season , ’ said the Colchester manager . |
| 23 | Managing director Vincent Rey says , ‘ I have been in the tour operating business since 1965 , so my knowledge of both sides of the business is greater than that of many people running retail outlets . ’ |
| 24 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what improvements there have been in the education provision in primary schools for children with special needs since 1979 . |
| 25 | Sapsan says its main customers have been in the defence industry . |
| 26 | Most of the recently created jobs have been in the service industry and the retail sector , many of them positions which attract part-time and female staff . |
| 27 | By an extraordinary coincidence all four have been in the recording studio recently , and have sent in their labours for critical appreciation . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Our two Central South first division sides have been in the transfer market today . |
| 30 | Football , and after just one game in the premier league Swindon Town have been in the transfer market to sign Wolves striker Andy Mutch … |