Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Lotus Notes has been on the market for some time , and is already being used by many of the world 's largest companies .
2 Last month Amnesty International called for all charges against him to be withdrawn and concluded : ‘ At every stage the behaviour of the authorities has been in open defiance of the authority of the courts and the rule of law . ’
3 Often the emphasis on shared values has been at its greatest in time of war or other national crisis .
4 One method of reducing surpluses has been for companies to take contributions holidays ( although generally these are not extended to employee contribution holidays ) whereby they do not pay any contributions for a period of time .
5 Most of my contact with other musicians has been with other improvising musicians , and to get to work with one of the major American composers on something like that was fascinating .
6 The most long-standing method of training church musicians has been through apprenticeship .
7 A program of research into leadership styles has been in operation at Ohio State University since 1945 .
8 However , by and large , the audience split between the commercial and non-commercial sectors has been in the 40:60 ratio ( or vice versa ) and , therefore , within acceptable limits .
9 Local Management of Schools has been to many of our schools .
10 The emphasis in schools has been on computer science and CAL .
11 Ever since then , China in its many and varied aspects has been in my mind , and I believe it was on that Saturday morning in Aunt Janie 's potato patch that I first became interested in the Orient .
12 The traditional approach to the training and selection of headteachers has been on the basis of technical competence reinforced by practical experience .
13 Thus the practical stress of Marxist movements and parties has been on individuals sublimating their own ethical beliefs and judgements to a collective , party-defined line .
14 In particular , who in the nine months has been in charge of this section and shown great dedication and commitment .
15 This generalisation conceals wide variation , however , the heaviest losses having been in Merseyside , Manchester , Cleveland and parts of Scotland .
16 With all eyes having been on the Government , Labour can get away with one conference like this one .
17 The average age of single deck vehicles was 10.3 years , while the county 's 88 more recently introduced mini-buses had been on the roads an average of 5.3 years .
18 Brian and I recounted the awful journey , but , of course , all the Yanks had been through the same ordeal .
19 One former member of the Royal Corps of Signals had been to Hong Kong preventing the ‘ illegal entry of persons ’ , which would have come in handy for protecting intruders at Goldfinger 's headquarters .
20 It was then revealed that the two brothers had been on the brink of a merger with a hotel group , a highly respectable one with over fifty good solid hotels in the provinces .
21 Whenever there was something amiss in the district she wondered where her brothers had been at the time , and as she had been making her way to Sainsbury 's this thought had yet again crossed her mind .
22 Local youth offices had been in existence in a few cities as early as 1909 in Mainz ( founded by the mayor Georg Schmidt ) and 1910 in Hamburg .
23 In the whole region , perhaps 800,000 animals had been on the move , and about 20,000 were thought to have been killed by the hunters .
24 Most of his earlier stage designs had been for opera , and the latest of them , Simon Boccanegra , had been the big hit of the preceding season .
25 If only all school trips had been like this .
26 In terms of flying hours both units had been in use for about 55 000 hours , during which something like 20 000 flights ( or landings ) had been made .
27 The training of the vernacular clergy had been in the hands of Arthur Dilworth , the first time that a missionary had been completely set aside for this important task .
28 Once inside those walls , it really was another world , more than fifteen square kilometres of streets bordered by the crumbling walls of houses , public buildings , cemeteries and reservoirs , some with bits and pieces of bone lying exposed where long-dead looters and grave-robbers had been at work .
29 The kids had been in the car and there was a water pistol on the shelf under the dash .
30 Previously , allocation of funds had been on a per capita student basis , but this changed to a research project grant system .
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