Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Trainer Peter Beaumont is keen to get a run into the seven-year-old who has been off the track since narrowly going down to 40-1 shock winner Sibton Abbey last month . |
| 62 | Granville Again , an unlucky faller when poised to deliver his challenge in the race 12 months ago , has been off the track since he finished eight lengths third behind Mighty Mogul at Kempton over Christmas . |
| 63 | Tennyson then goes onto portray a wonderful quality of desolation and despair in a wasteland where no one has been since the beginning of the world . |
| 64 | Today this is grazing land for sheep , as most of the surrounding area has been since the founding of the abbey . |
| 65 | In a few moments I 'd like to tell you briefly about the trading background to the figures and to give you an indication of how business has been since the period ended and particularly since our important sale started on Boxing Day . |
| 66 | Typically the means of issuing commands using this system has been via a window-icon-mouse-pop-up menu ( WIMP ) display , where the mouse is used to point at icons or menus in windows ( which are subsets of the screen working area ) . |
| 67 | in Gloucester navigator Ade Jeffries has been on a crash course to lose the fat and get fit … |
| 68 | The HCIMA bibliography has been established over nearly 10 years , and the past seven years has been on a computer database . |
| 69 | Funding for research of this kind has been on a scale not approached by any other area of sociological enquiry . |
| 70 | Lou Macari 's been called … his football life … has been on a roller coaster these past few seasons … hitting the heights at Swindon … crashing into the law courts … running around Wembley with the cup … |
| 71 | Asprey , 5p higher at 290p , is flush with cash and has been on an acquisitions spree in the last 15 months . |
| 72 | ‘ Hartmut Kopsch has been on the phone , ’ said my wife Annie , ‘ about a job in Cranham . |
| 73 | ‘ Not only will everyone be rushing back to the city today , after the weekend vacation , but I understand Ross has been on the phone , getting the air-conditioning fixed and also seeing about someone to help you with the kids . |
| 74 | In 1991 , the emphasis has been on the achievement of ISO 9002 registration and the introduction of MRPII as Kodak works towards manufacturing excellence associated with World Class Companies . |
| 75 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 76 | I mention this and , since Sandra has been on The Word , after a while she remembers Amanda . |
| 77 | The show was commissioned by the Rochdale Art Gallery in 1987 , staged there in '89 and has been on the road since then . |
| 78 | Felix has been on the scheme for nine months , Gerald for two years . |
| 79 | Although not the longest reigning ( Belgium 's King Baudouin has been on the throne for 41 years ) , she is undoubtedly the most widely recognised monarch in the world ( there are currently over a billion bank notes and 16 billion coins in circulation bearing her portrait ) . |
| 80 | Beyond the fringe Nicky Mason , who has been on the fringes of England 's best men 's team for 30 years , showed during England 's outstanding 5-1 victory that he can still … |
| 81 | Mrs Grant has decided to stand down from HIE , where she has been on the board since its inception two years ago , because of increasing work commitments . |
| 82 | Tim Roth has been on the edge of major success for years . |
| 83 | The conflict over housing land has been on the edge of the conurbation with a still undecided battle being fought over suburbanization by addition on a site-by-site basis . |
| 84 | The man responsible for tackling Britain 's rising crime has been on the campaign trail in the region today . |
| 85 | Erika Barnes has been on the towpath in London to meet them |
| 86 | First , the fact that those in residential care are young people not children ; second , that the main emphasis in child care work has been on the discussion of personal family relationships and in working towards the return of children to their own families or placement with another family . |
| 87 | The aircraft has been on the airshow circuit for a number of years and now needs a lot of tender loving care to bring it back to pristine condition again . |
| 88 | This was a splendid entrepreneurial venture and he has been on the attack ever since — as a one-man information explosion and the biggest influence on British printing since Caxton . |
| 89 | Mr Roseberry , who was educated at Durham School , has been on the Middlesex playing staff since 1986 . |
| 90 | One of the reasons for the improvement in pedestrian safety on the Continent over the past decade , is that the focus of traffic calming work has been on the areas where most people live , that is on existing , not new , residential areas . |