Example sentences of "[noun] have been [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent trips have been to Arran , Bute , Aberfoyle and along various cycle tracks in Ayrshire . |
| 2 | In parts of southern Africa individual units have been in use for over 20 years . |
| 3 | But the reaction of the most senior members of the judiciary — the Law Lords , the Lord Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls — was felt by many of the general public , I believe , to conflict with the image which the judiciary have been at pains to promote . |
| 4 | Within these phenomena four main areas of study have been of interest to rural geographers ; first , and most enduring of all , the study of rural population change ; second , and more recent in its concern , the study of rural communities ; third , and of more general relevance to other chapters in this book , the classification and definition of rural areas by both their population and employment characteristics ; and fourth , the study of employment in rural areas . |
| 5 | Erm er just made an observation about er experience in hospital with children and apparently when kids have been in hospital for a length of time they do n't object so much when you go along and stick a the |
| 6 | The finances of the betting industry have been under pressure as well . |
| 7 | How grateful the Jews have been to God and how sorely treated by God the Jews have been . |
| 8 | Designers have been at pains to ensure the Cornmill is not just a covered shopping mall . |
| 9 | The only Wirral opt-out votes preceding St Mary 's College have been at grammar schools . |
| 10 | Mr Kinnock , however , has moved Labour back to the centre and since 1987 the two former Alliance parties have been in disarray . |
| 11 | Although his initial performances have been below par it has by no means been the worst start to a Test career by a recognised English batman . |
| 12 | At the rally Chief Buthelezi called on the ANC leader , Nelson Mandela , to ‘ stop posturing ’ and join him at a series of public meetings to eradicate violence in areas where ANC and Inkatha supporters have been at war . |
| 13 | A period of two and a half years of which fifteen months have been for construction . |
| 14 | Soviet strikes point to crisis of morale that threatens future of perestroika Broadcasts of parliament get more viewers than Agatha Christie films It is the first November 7 since the revolution that coal miners have been on strike . |
| 15 | It is , as far as can be remembered , the first November 7 since the revolution that coal miners have been on strike — the very core of the working class who made the revolution possible . |
| 16 | A quarter of the country 's coal miners have been on strike for three weeks demanding the resignation of President Mikhail Gorbachev , the dissolution of the Soviet parliament and the transfer of power to the Federation Council , composed of the elected leaders of the 15 republics . |
| 17 | Traditional beer and pubs have been under threat for decades — and remain so today . |
| 18 | The most complex and prolonged human/dolphin associations have been with bottlenose dolphins , but Doak thinks that they are by no means limited to this species . |
| 19 | The culture is named after a village away from the lake , though the better finds have been at Sesto Calende , the town at the end of the lakebound autostrada that heads north from Milan . |
| 20 | England have been in trouble twice this season , upset by Canada 's pack at Wembley and shunted alarmingly by South Africa during the first half . |
| 21 | The reasons for this decentralising movement towards the growth of workplace bargaining activity in Western European countries have been in part economic , as a result of generally high employment and continuous economic growth in the post-war years to the mid-1970s along with a varying capacity to pay of separate employers . |
| 22 | Similar changes in attitude have been in evidence throughout the training of these recruits , so much so that the unenlightened diehard points indignantly to an apparent decline in discipline and general standard . |
| 23 | Later theoretical developments of psychoanalysis have been by analysts who have largely given up this second requirement of a theoretical conceptualization , yet it was a fundamental one for Freud himself . |
| 24 | Indeed , the companies have been at pains to demonstrate the technology 's feasibility : the CeBit show saw a demonstration of isoEnet in action on NatSemi 's stand and it has published a White Paper on it . |
| 25 | All three companies have been in receipt of money raised by ‘ unusual ’ means . |
| 26 | Lisburn have been in existence for more than 150 years and is Ulster 's oldest surviving cricket club . |
| 27 | The Conservatives have been in Government , either alone or in coalitions dominated by their party , for sixty-seven of the past 100 years , and their share of the vote at general elections has rarely fallen below 40 per cent . |
| 28 | Listening to the Minister today , it was hard to appreciate that the Conservatives have been in government for 13 years . |
| 29 | During the period in which the Conservatives have been in power it was said , first , that we needed only one terminal , Waterloo . |
| 30 | ‘ Tory Party smoke screens a week before the General Election can not obscure the fact that crime has increased while the Conservatives have been in power . ’ |