Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lotus Notes has been on the market for some time , and is already being used by many of the world 's largest companies . |
| 2 | Though its timing caught out the markets , the krona/ecu link has been on the cards for some months . |
| 3 | The channel tunnel rail link has been at the centre of my thoughts about my own urban concerns . |
| 4 | Indeed it has been a skill whose weakness has been at the root of many criticisms of GCSE papers where short answers are not deemed to be adequate foundation for A level . |
| 5 | Studies of rape in England and Wales suggest that two-thirds of rapes take place in the home of the victim or the offender , and that only one-third involve strangers ; that two-fifths of victims suffer physical violence as well as rape , and one-sixth suffer additional sexual indignities ; that recent years have seen an increase in the reporting of rapes between acquaintances , and that rapes are increasing a little in their intrinsic seriousness ( i.e. in terms of the violence used , other sexual acts , etc ) , but that the most significant rise has been in the average length of sentences imposed on rapists by the courts . |
| 6 | Jenkins has been in the job for about ten days , so she can be forgiven for forgetting a lot of names , but she does have a long history of dealing with elderly people . |
| 7 | Bramham Park has been in the Lane Fox family for eight generations , since Robert Benson and the first Lord Bingley built the House and laid out the grounds in the manner of Versailles in 1698 and George Fox married his daughter . |
| 8 | One recent change has been among the so-called shabashniki . |
| 9 | The numbers unemployed and in education rose but a bigger change has been in the numbers on the Youth Training Scheme which was set up in 1983 . |
| 10 | The most important contextual change has been in the labour market . |
| 11 | Another radical change has been in the traditional structure for production management on the major multi-business sites . |
| 12 | Funding for research of this kind has been on a scale not approached by any other area of sociological enquiry . |
| 13 | In fact a more limited regime of this kind has been on the Soviet agenda for the Mediterranean for many years . |
| 14 | The least coverage has been in the realm of news and current affairs , where until the recent AIDS and Clause 28 reportage gay stories have been given only very occasional attention . |
| 15 | Since it began using the gas phase process in 1979 , ICI has been at the forefront of process control and development and has succeeded in covering the whole product range with this new technology . |
| 16 | ICI has been in the polypropylene business since the early 1960s and currently has capacity for 300 kt per year , part at Wilton in the UK , part at Rozenburg in Holland . |
| 17 | ICI has been in the polyethylene terephthalate business since the 1940s when it began to develop the material as a fibre — ‘ Terylene ’ — following its invention by two British chemists . |
| 18 | LM It is very easy in the kind of society Czechoslovakia has been in the past twenty years to lose a more general perspective on events . |
| 19 | Felix has been on the scheme for nine months , Gerald for two years . |
| 20 | Ian has been with the company for four years as a qualified Textile Technologist and Garry is learning the skills during his first year . |
| 21 | What the district around Takrit was to Saddam , Oltenia has been to the Ceauşescus . |
| 22 | Ben has been in the home since the beginning of the year when , while appearing as the Sheriff of Nottingham in a panto in Whitchurch , he was taken ill in his digs . |
| 23 | Living rough : Stewart has been on the streets in Edinburgh for three years , sleeping wherever he can find shelter and surviving on a mixture of benefits and begging . |
| 24 | How many times have you sat down at your machine and thought ‘ I do n't think I can cope with this ’ and within the next five minutes all the knitting has been on the floor ? |
| 25 | We know what the experience has been over the years . |
| 26 | Apart from public education , my own field of interest and experience has been in the discourse analysis of language in the magistrates ' court , where I have played the roles of a bilingual interpreter and of a sociolinguist observing the language scene . |
| 27 | The ‘ Fury and the Spitfire has been to an airshow the previous day at Yeovilton , they had then flown to Humberside for another airshow and were on their way home . |
| 28 | For the last three years , N C V O has been at the centre of the critical debates . |
| 29 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |
| 30 | The struggle has been between the Czech people and the security apparatus behind the Communist party . |