Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [been] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think it does anyone any good to have been on the same patch of ground for five hundred years . |
| 2 | According to contemporary writers , and repeated regularly ever since then , Piper had already gained fame as the first European to have been behind the Great Wall of China . |
| 3 | It would have been an education to have been in the House when the Minister spoke . |
| 4 | The official definition of long-term unemployment is more than twelve months without work , although employment training , which is designed for the long term unemployed , requires entrants to have been on the register for more than six months . |
| 5 | The gunman is thought by detectives to have been under the influence of ‘ crack ’ cocaine . |
| 6 | The only item in the Christie 's sale to have been on the ship at the moment of sinking , it was written by Mrs Esther Hart and tucked into her husband 's jacket . |
| 7 | 14 October , 1969 TONY BENN records in his diary : ‘ In the evening Caroline and I went to Number 10 for a dinner for the American astronauts , the first three men to have been on the moon . |