Example sentences of "[n mass] have be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And the National Rivers Authority has pledged to introduce 200,000 salmon a year for the next four years into the cleaned-up River Tees the first time the fish have been in the river in any numbers in the last 30 years .
2 In addition , 25% have managed only one issue in the relevant period , and no less than 38% have been in the top 50 for less than four years , excluding those who have established themselves in the last four years .
3 Over 19,000 people have worked for Delta for more than 10 years and over 11,300 people have been with us for over 20 years .
4 The solar system has travelled round the galaxy almost 20 times since it was formed , and it has described only a tiny arc of its journey during the two million years that people have been on the Earth .
5 ‘ These good people have been to an enormous amount of trouble on my behalf , and I am sure I shall be quite unable to do justice to their generous provision . ’
6 He says people have been to myself and I know they 've been to the doctor , crying in the surgery over there not being a burial ground , because obviously when one 's loved ones die they wish to have them buried here .
7 He says people have been to myself and I know they 've been to the doctor , crying in the surgery over there not being a burial ground , because obviously when one 's loved ones die they wish to have them buried here .
8 Scores of people have been through them and their marginal jottings and exclamations are reminders of those who searched and those who found .
9 Some elderly people have been through a divorce leaving a residue of ambivalent feelings and some social isolation ( Hunt , 1978 , Table 12:8:1 ) .
10 BY THE sound of ‘ Tantrum ’ and ‘ Intact ’ , these people have been through some murderous , futile relationships .
11 How many people have been through ?
12 Then again , too many young people have been through the finals course , often at considerable financial hardship to themselves or their families , only to find that they can not be absorbed into a recession-hit profession .
13 Since it first opened in April , almost 5,000 people have been through the doors .
14 Since then , more than 170 jobs have been created and 20,000 people have been through the Employment and Enterprise Centre .
15 There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’
16 She also says : ‘ … where people have been in the habit of reaching out towards the Unseen they wear a kind of track , and it 's much easier to go out that way . ’
17 Jacob 's people have been in Egypt some 370 years .
18 Have you ever been in love ? , are you now ? , button one for yes , button two for no and in this hundred , woof ninety three people have been in love , what , what happened ? ,
19 People have been in the house and they nipped in while they 've been
20 Our people have been in touch with the police , just checking to see if there could be a terrorist element .
21 Some people have been in hospital for 34 years and have never had their independence .
22 After last week 's further note on the ineffectiveness of Neighbourhood Watch schemes in Darlington , another three people have been in touch .
23 What , so these two people have been in here , staying here , no television , no microwave ?
24 Miss erm whatever her name is said that erm people have been in there .
25 We 've all — take these two poems , we 've all been children ; most people have been in love ; we 're all we all think about our death ; we all think about our parents ; we all like stories and we all like stories that seem , you know , to deal with some primal central human experience , so I do n't think you have to say anything more than what we all know already , that we all have a great deal in common with one another .
26 Dave Punshon , Age Concern 's chief officer , recently expressed fears that the scheme would have to close and its staff have been under redundancy notice since Christmas to finish on March 31 .
27 ‘ The constant worry all my staff have is of being transferred . ’
28 ‘ Lower interest rates have contributed to a pick-up in the growth of narrow money , while retail sales have been on a steady upward trend for almost a year .
29 Some 90% of sales have been for databases , electronic mail systems and Computer Aided Design .
30 Most of the sales have been in New York , where the bonds are being promoted with a radio advertising campaign — ‘ So our dollars can pay for war , your dollars pay for peace . ’
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