Example sentences of "they have [been] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time . |
| 2 | Obviously the standards are not satisfactory but they are the same as they have been for the last 30 years and they are of Mr Pritchard 's choosing . |
| 3 | For nominal Christians it is perhaps only the third time they have been at a religious service ; the other two being their baptism and marriage . |
| 4 | The Psalms offer a rich mixture of spiritual , literary and musical expression and they have been at the heart of the Church 's daily worship since biblical times . |
| 5 | And if they have been on the market the terms have often been unreasonable , with little attempt made to advertise them . |
| 6 | The views of the CBI could scarcely be clearer than they have been on the subject of the minimum wage . |
| 7 | In addition , the proximity of the Survey to the University ( they have been on the same site since 1975 ) led to contacts between their respective staffs , with a cross-fertilisation of ideas . |
| 8 | Most do not qualify for redundancy pay , pensions , sick pay or national-insurance benefits until they have been with a firm for two years . |
| 9 | Another approach to the competence question has been to ask clients , retrospectively , how satisfied they have been with the service they have had ( Rosenthal 1974 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ They are old friends and they have been through a lot worse than this over the years . |
| 11 | They have been through an unsettling time and are finding it difficult to readjust . |
| 12 | They have been over the greater part of Van Diemen 's Land and the Islands in Bass 's Straits and appear highly gratified with their peregrinations : a government vessel has generally been devoted to their use . |
| 13 | They have been over the past few days erm usually it was chocolate and apricot . |
| 14 | Houses are no longer the gold-plated investment they have been since the war . |
| 15 | Bans had to be introduced to give the fish stocks time to recover , and they are better now in the 1980's than they have been since the mid-1960's . |
| 16 | And they have been in a position to determine the way they are investigated and the manner of their public exposure . |
| 17 | This has been in part because the universities have a perfectly general responsibility for disseminating among schools up-to-date advances in knowledge and theoretical changes within disciplines , but also , more specifically , through the Local Examination Boards they have been in a position to determine the syllabuses for public examinations , and so to a large extent to dictate a curriculum even for those pupils at school who may never themselves enter the door of a university . |
| 18 | There is a small , but increasing risk of HIV infection in heterosexuals unless they have been in a mutually monogamous relationship for a number of years . |
| 19 | It applies to all goods in the categories listed in the box , irrespective of the time they have been in a country . |
| 20 | Indeed , introduced as they have been in a climate of manpower cuts by an allegedly insensitive senior management , the main effects of these developments may be to produce ‘ not just disgruntled employees ’ but also ‘ ineffective organisation ’ ( Plowden , 1985 , p. 410 ) . |
| 21 | In Cuba , for example , ‘ figures of the Wars of Independence , like Marti and Maceo , or of the 1933 revolution [ against the dictator Machado ] … give the revolution legitimacy by linking it with the historic past and , at least in the case of the heroes of 1933 , they have been in a very real sense the inspiration of the present revolutionary leaders , to a far greater degree than Marx and Lenin' ( Lambert : 1977 , p. 237 ) . |
| 22 | What they have been in the past , in the face of their grim working lives , is resilient . |
| 23 | Both the American and British governments are cloaking these new operations in a shroud of secrecy though it is unlikely any politician has the slightest idea what the two agencies are planning to do or that they even care if laws are broken as they have been in the past . |
| 24 | Homosexuality between consenting adults aged 21 or over , and abortion during a certain period of pregnancy , are not criminal offences at present , although they have been in the past . |
| 25 | For example , if they have been in the Chaos terrains of locations 60–63 and a Dwarf character fell into the Nurglesque marshes , one puppet will enact this while another ( preferably an Elf Puppet , to antagonize the Dwarf adventurer ) conducts a running commentary : ‘ Oh look , boys and girls , the stunty 's fallen down . |
| 26 | As a generalization , competitors are more open with each other that they have been in the past and there is much more information available . |
| 27 | We pay attention to those salient features which are constitutive of the type of genre , and expect that the peripheral features will be as they have been in the past . |
| 28 | If these twin policies are to have any effect in reducing geographical inequalities , they need to be pursued more vigorously than they have been in the past . |
| 29 | For their part , ministers are accountable to Parliament , so ministers are the vital link in the chain between the civil service and Parliament and , indeed , they have been in the past not merely a link but a barrier . |
| 30 | They have been in the middle of war and think nothing of hearing shooting all round them . |