Example sentences of "of [noun sg] they have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Collector 's eye came to rest on the corner where Miriam lay ; she was too weak to help Dr McNab now , but although she could no longer be of any service to the ailing figures who lay nearby , she had refused to let the Collector move her mattress up to the dais where the air was better and where cholera clouds would be less likely to hang ( if such things existed , which of course they had been proved not to by Dr McNab , but all the same … ) . |
| 2 | But of course they had been drunk too , worse , most of them far worse than herself — perhaps they had forgotten she was ever with them . |
| 3 | Most Victorian cities had been urban centres since at least the Middle Ages , though of course they had been tiny in comparison with the size they attained in the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Oh I do , I do and my mates is on er , of course they 've been brought up with the metric system you see and he 's |
| 5 | But er unfortunately those on the ground who have shown their skill at wrecking anything that does n't suit their purpose with the support of the Labour group , those on the ground will still be there and I do n't believe that er giving the director of education the executive powers is going to stop them continuing to take the sort of action they 've been taking . |
| 6 | Nell guessed from the centrifuges and freezers what type of work they had been designed for . |
| 7 | In general , most people reckon that the cost of credit they have been using is more or less as they had planned . |
| 8 | A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for . |
| 9 | Having accepted the ground rules , all the Grants appreciated and relished a structure that allowed a degree of communication they had been missing for years . |
| 10 | Considering the amount of pressure they had been exerting , there should , Briant felt , be a different atmosphere about them . |
| 11 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 12 | The requirements for military or test pilots place less emphasis on the number of flying hours required and this is compensated for by the more stringent type of flying they have been involved in ( though it is true that a large proportion of airline pilots learned to fly and served in military aviation before becoming civil pilots ) . |
| 13 | Did n't , did n't they mean that as in a period of time they 'd been stuck in the Ark . |
| 14 | Several cast sheep were found , lying on their backs while their legs kicked the air helplessly , but after Silas had grabbed their thick wool and jerked them to their feet they also ran , or staggered away , depending upon the length of time they had been cast . |
| 15 | Not too much has been done in the mountains , hardly surprising given the length of time they have been dry , but Dai Lampard snatched a great ascent with Mother of Mercy E5 6a . |
| 16 | The length of time they have been waiting for a house or factors such as overcrowding and damp are far more important than marital status , Mrs Smith said . |