Example sentences of "and have [be] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not one to do double somersaults — I 'm not that acrobatic — but he 's one of the best in the country and has been for a long time . |
| 2 | No , the fact remains that malaria is on the increase and has been for a number of years now . |
| 3 | Do n't because there is at present , and has been for a good many years past , almost nowhere to publish the stories you may write . |
| 4 | It also puts money into the Yorkshire and Humberside Development Association which is wholly involved and has been for the last two years in trying to get large scale erm strategic inward investment into the county , and erm it is a erm awkwardness I think that it 's best to be open about that the planning policy of the county is out of tune with the day factor activities of the economic development side of the of the county council . |
| 5 | Stolen Glances features pictures by ten lesbian photographers and has been at the council-funded Arts Centre for two weeks . |
| 6 | But she 's about forty and has been with the company ages . ’ |
| 7 | Jeff works in the dyehouse and has been with the company for ten years . |
| 8 | Janet works in the Sales Office on Customer Service and has been with the company for two and half years . |
| 9 | Asprey , 5p higher at 290p , is flush with cash and has been on an acquisitions spree in the last 15 months . |
| 10 | The show was commissioned by the Rochdale Art Gallery in 1987 , staged there in '89 and has been on the road since then . |
| 11 | Howard , from Liverpool , has an England record of 20 Tests , officiated in both World Cups and has been on the panel for nine years . |
| 12 | Transracial adoption , the adoption of children by parents of different racial origin , developed in earnest in the mid-1960s and has been on the increase since then . |
| 13 | She started ‘ working ’ at the age of 14 and has been on the streets for five years . |
| 14 | Romero is a provincial film-maker by choice and has been since the 1960s , long before this was common — if indeed it is even now , despite the growth of independent film-making and its important contribution to the artistically enfeebled Hollywood mainstream . |
| 15 | The use has led to further commercialism of the land and has been to the detriment of the rural character of the area , they say . |
| 16 | Methodism has made a very rapid progress , and has been of no trifling service in diverting the attention of these sons of darkness from their present condition to the glories of the life to come . |
| 17 | Joan 's husband suffers from motor neurone disease , is very weak and has been in a wheelchair for the last nine years , almost totally dependent on her for physical care . |
| 18 | ‘ However , he damaged his spine over twenty years ago , after being thrown from his horse , and has been in a wheelchair ever since . ’ |
| 19 | Leaving aside positions like the Earl Marshal , which is largely concerned with organizing coronations and state funerals , and has been in the Duke of Norfolk 's family since 1672 , the court is knitted together by blood and marriage . |
| 20 | It has been rediscovered by dynamic psychology in the twentieth century , but it is an ancient insight and has been in the Bible all along . |
| 21 | There is a parallel with the BCR here : Which preserved narrow gauge railway was opened in 1876 , declared bankrupt in 1877 , abandoned in 1912 and has been in the hands of private operators since 1915 ? |
| 22 | But these days he 's devoting his time to his first love … music , and has been in the region to launch a series of unusual concerts . |
| 23 | Gavin is also 1990 Junior British Champion in the under 45 kilo category , and has been in the top three of every competition he has ever entered . |
| 24 | Ramsgill Moor varies from 1,000 to 1,700ft. above sea level and has been in the Briggs family since 1946 . |
| 25 | Too much authority is given to someone outside the family , and has been from the beginning . ’ |
| 26 | All golf and gin and bridge and cars and the right accent and the right money and having been to the right school and hating the arts ( the theatre being a pantomime at Christmas and ‘ Hay Fever ’ by the Town Rep Picasso and Bartók dirty words unless you wanted to get a laugh ) . |
| 27 | She was very young , 18 or 19 , and relatively immature although much more worldly wise than I was because she had lived a much more international sort of life , and having been around the music scene a lot more than I had , she was streetwise at her age to a greater degree than I — there was no question of that . |
| 28 | For twenty years she saved up her money for the ‘ round trip ’ , and having been round the world , is now full of memories . |
| 29 | Designated children had to fall within the age ranges 3–4 years or 16–18 years and to have been under the care or formal supervision of the local authority for at least six months . |
| 30 | The libretto , which had been lying in his drawer for years , had been written by a M. Frontenac , who had known Alain-Fournier personally , and had been under the spell of his novel since it first appeared in 1913 . |