Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] have [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has become something of a cause célèbre in rock press folklore , but in truth the NME had been in worse scrapes before and no doubt has many more ahead . |
| 2 | As an extremely well-equipped force , the SDK have been at the centre of political controversy in Japan because of the difficulty of assessing the basic needs of a force that is there purely to defend . |
| 3 | On balance , I believe that Britain 's membership of the EEC has been of some benefit in terms of the home market which she has gained and will continue to gain as and when her partners honour their commitments to complete the Single Market ; however , as should be clear from the figures quoted in Chapter 5 , the assertion that EEC membership has been good for Britain is open to question . |
| 4 | The RAF has been at Abingdon since 1932 . |
| 5 | Rejecting recent allegations in the Bulgarian and Italian press concerning the supposed involvement of Konstantin Karadzhov , a former mayor of a Sofia municipality , Danov stated that he was inclined to believe the scenario put forward in some sections of the Western press that forces inside the Vatican had been behind the assassination attempt . |
| 6 | The Dimblebys had been at a loss for words . |
| 7 | Also , my share of the Lothians has been in the care of my cousin the Bishop of Alba . |
| 8 | The PDC had been in opposition since leaving Endara 's government in April 1991 ; Arias had remained in the constitutional post of First Vice-President without attending Cabinet meetings . |
| 9 | The MO 's been by . ’ |
| 10 | About four-fifths of housing constructed in the LDDC has been for the owner-occupied sector . |
| 11 | In spite of the fact that the Carews had been in Ireland since the middle of the seventeenth century , he still regarded himself as an expatriate living among a semi-barbarous people in a semi-barbarous land . |
| 12 | ‘ I am convinced that much of the success achieved by the Arsenal has been through the team quickly sensing a weakness in the opposition , ’ Chapman commented . |
| 13 | The King of the Tipsters has been in unstoppable form since he struck with another 4-1 shot , Pursuit Of Love , at Doncaster last week . |
| 14 | For several years , the FCT has been at the forefront of media awareness campaigns in Japan , many of which have been coordinated by Midori Suzuki , a specialist on media education and member of WACC 's Central Committee . |
| 15 | ‘ The North has been through hard times but things are changing , ’ he said . |
| 16 | ‘ The North has been through some hard times , and things are changing . |
| 17 | Service and high technology industries and new small businesses are concentrated in the South , whereas the traditional industrial base of the North has been in manufacturing . |
| 18 | The MQM and the PPP had been at loggerheads since October 1989 , when the MQM ended its 11-month old alliance with the PPP and joined the Combined Opposition Parties [ see p. 37043 ] . |
| 19 | US Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn asked the Defence Department to conduct a further investigation , citing the statement in the ABC broadcast by Adml. ( retd ) William Crowe , former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , that the Vincennes had been in Iranian waters when it fired the missile , not in international waters as previously claimed . |
| 20 | Britain 's financial withdrawals from the IMF had been on an unprecedented scale . |
| 21 | By the middle of February , when the Shah had been in Morocco more than a month , it had become common gossip in the diplomatic corps that Hassan was giving him the cold shoulder . |
| 22 | The Beacon had been in existence for many years and in the past had catered for up to thirty children with a wide range of disabilities and needs . |
| 23 | It 's not clear where the Lagonda has been since Tony last owned it . |
| 24 | Historically the BBC has been in a privileged position to negotiate coverage with the ‘ gentlemen amateurs ’ of the MCC , the Committee of the All-England Club , and the four rugby unions . |
| 25 | Since the first royal radio message in 1932 , which was followed by the first TV broadcast on Christmas Day 1957 , the BBC has been in charge of security . |
| 26 | Mr Jarvis , who first gained the attention of Mrs Major through his readings of the Richmal Crompton 's William stories , says : ‘ The BBC have been after me to record some more William stories but I have decided that one series a year is quite enough . |
| 27 | The trend in the UK has been for the pyramid to become flattened as many organisations have striven to reduce their layers of middle management to take account of new technology and cut costs . |
| 28 | I explained how by chance the Mantela had been in Sydney for a refit . |
| 29 | Aware that Madcap Agnew 's name was scarcely mentioned in the Hall , that the Lodge had been for many years a forbidden place , and that her father 's heart still quailed to reflect on the terrors he had suffered as a child , Louisa had not dared to let her reflections on this unhappy history reach far enough . |
| 30 | The FMPS has been at the show for 20 years , and its display included static engines , used in the past to drive water pumps , mills and generators , said FMPS organiser Jeffrey Giblin . |