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 . ’ |