Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [vb pp] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Carolingians ' heartlands , that is , the area where most of their estates were clustered , and where Franks had been settled for centuries , spanned modern Belgium and the Netherlands , northern France , and western Germany , thus lying athwart the " natural " frontiers of the Ardennes forest , and the rivers Meuse and Rhine . |
| 2 | His close associate Klaus Barbie had been sentenced for crimes against humanity in 1987 [ see p. 35417 ] and had died in prison in 1991 [ see p. 38459 ] . |
| 3 | The year Lydia had bought her cottage a young person had died and Lydia had been lost for words , as people are in the face of tragedy . |
| 4 | Clints have been quarried for rockeries at a markedly increasing rate in the last 20 years , according to a Dales National Park report . |
| 5 | Capriati has been courted for months by IMG , whose promotion , coupled with success on court , will bring their teenage client millions of dollars . |
| 6 | Other areas of South Wales have been blighted for years , while renewed threats are now being made to cut open parts of Clwyd 's countryside . |