Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Furthermore , people vary in their tolerance from day to day , and it is not safe to assume that because you have been to 15,000 feet or so without oxygen before , you will be able to do it again . |
| 32 | Calls for innovation and for productivity related ‘ intensive ’ growth have been to little avail . |
| 33 | I have been to both places and can assure you , there is a great difference . |
| 34 | In the 1990s the Bar likes to proclaim that all that has changed , that it is no longer dominated by men who have been to public schools followed by Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 35 | The item below that is the shortfall in planning application fees , this is application fees for er mineral extraction applications which are , these are set as a statutory charge erm we 've picked up in the budget monitoring reports which have been to previous committees that the from this source has been falling off , as a few words explain that in this paragraph . |
| 36 | The Faroe Islands are self-governing , but have been for many years a colony of Denmark , and still rely on the government of the old mother country for international representation . |
| 37 | Many are extremely tense , not only since the infarct , but have been for many years , and it is possible that the inward tension that they suffer has been a contributory factor to their disease . |
| 38 | These will be concerns for his successor as David will take his leave of the Education Department at the end of July and his immediate plans are more leisurely now than they have been for many years . |
| 39 | Erm , please , appalling and have been for many years and er the whole of the road needs to be done . |
| 40 | ‘ House repossessions are at no higher rate than they have been for many years , ’ he says . |
| 41 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 42 | Some of the most effective recruitment campaigns I have worked with have been for limited commitment . |
| 43 | The majority of systems that have been developed have been for restricted domains and small grammars . |
| 44 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |
| 45 | However , those who are unemployed , especially if they have been for some time , may find it is more important to send out as many letters as possible , in the hope of getting some response . |
| 46 | I am much slimmer and a better shape than I have been for some time ( or for months , years , etc. ) and I am going to get even slimmer and achieve an even better figure — a figure I never thought I could have . |
| 47 | ‘ I think you do follow us , ’ Cranston replied , ‘ and have been for some time . |
| 48 | Well , we have been for some time . |
| 49 | My children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 50 | My children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 51 | Yes my children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 52 | Yes my children do go to school oh I was going to say , have been for some months now . |
| 53 | Most records since 1947 have been for coastal districts , which perhaps just reflects the distribution of observers at the migration seasons . |
| 54 | To live in a beautiful country , and to enure myself as much as possible to the labour of the field , have been for this year past my dream of the day , my sigh at midnight . |
| 55 | To live in a beautiful country & to inure myself as much as possible to the labors of the field , have been for this year past my dream of the day , my Sigh at midnight — but to enjoy these blessings near you , to see you daily , to tell you all my thoughts in their first birth , and to hear your 's , to be mingling identities with you , as it were ; — the vision-weaving Fancy has indeed often pictured such things , but Hope never dared whisper a promise ! ’ |
| 56 | The Liberal governments of 1906–14 introduced new principles of social policy which have been of lasting importance , but in accordance with no conscious grand design directed at Cabinet level . |
| 57 | On each occasion the items stolen have been of little value , but the thefts are a continual thorn in the side of the cricket club committee . |
| 58 | Declining costs of information have been of critical importance in spurring the international growth of service firms and the service functions within manufacturing firms . |
| 59 | Of all the wonderful cricketers to come from the West Indies , it is fair to say that five have been of outstanding importance . |
| 60 | The rapidity of Japan 's economic and political transformation and the enduring influence of Tokugawa practices and ideas into this century mean that in Japan , as in other late industrializers such as the USSR , agricultural issues and the impact of the rural sector have been of crucial importance throughout the past 150 years . |