Example sentences of "they have [been] [prep] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Most do not qualify for redundancy pay , pensions , sick pay or national-insurance benefits until they have been with a firm for two years . |
| 4 | ‘ They are old friends and they have been through a lot worse than this over the years . |
| 5 | They have been through an unsettling time and are finding it difficult to readjust . |
| 6 | And they have been in a position to determine the way they are investigated and the manner of their public exposure . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It applies to all goods in the categories listed in the box , irrespective of the time they have been in a country . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Research into technological innovation has generally assumed that although shifts have occurred they have been within a stable organisational framework . |