Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb base] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an extremely well-equipped force , the SDK have been at the centre of political controversy in Japan because of the difficulty of assessing the basic needs of a force that is there purely to defend . |
| 2 | The Paras have been jumping into one of the dropping zones on Salisbury Plain since first light , so the Scouts have been on standby on the DZ in case there should be any casualties . |
| 3 | The big man has been in a clinic since breaking a leg against Crystal Palace last week and the only way he can join in the Reds rise is by cheering them on in front of his telly . |
| 4 | They will also want to know how successful the plans have been in achieving what they set out to achieve . |
| 5 | The Lions have been on tour for a month . ’ |
| 6 | Policies with prefix letters PM or FM ( Motor Car ) , MC ( Motor Cycle ) or CM ( Commercial Vehicle — excluding policies numbered lower than 100,000 ) will qualify for a Special Discount of just under 6% where the policies have been in force continuously for at least three years when they are renewed during the year commencing 1st July 1981 . |
| 7 | Yet just at that moment — one occasionally suspects that the mythmakers have been at work on the story — the lookout sighted sails on the western horizon . |
| 8 | Apparently , most hunts begin and end high in the mountains , far away from any village , and all those present at the kill have been with the hunt throughout . |
| 9 | But the reaction of the most senior members of the judiciary — the Law Lords , the Lord Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls — was felt by many of the general public , I believe , to conflict with the image which the judiciary have been at pains to promote . |
| 10 | ‘ All the servants at the hacienda have been with the count for years , some since he was a child . ’ |
| 11 | The polytechnics have been under a similar financial strain . |
| 12 | The bogs have been in the main part destroyed by forestry development and commercial peat cutting for horticulture . |
| 13 | and the curriculum statement , all the kids do is on a sheet put the number of the courses |
| 14 | But otherwise I just reckon there will be something around — or if the locusts have been at the fridge , well , I can always go out . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Previously the losses have been through voluntary redundancies or retirements , losing some of our most experienced officers . |
| 16 | How grateful the Jews have been to God and how sorely treated by God the Jews have been . |
| 17 | Now at this point I want to sort of take a break from looking at the development of the Communist Party to looking briefly at the peasantry because although the peasantry have been in the background for much of the time , we have n't actually looked in any detail , so far , at the condition of the peasantry in China . |
| 18 | The headhunters have been on the warpath again : Tucson , Arizona-based Artisoft Inc reports that William Baker submitted his resignations as chief financial officer , ‘ to pursue other opportunities ’ . |
| 19 | The Garlands have been in this game for eighty years — accumulating , not spending . |
| 20 | Many of the refugees have been on the move for several years . |
| 21 | Indeed , the companies have been at pains to demonstrate the technology 's feasibility : the CeBit show saw a demonstration of isoEnet in action on NatSemi 's stand and it has published a White Paper on it . |
| 22 | The Conservatives have been in Government , either alone or in coalitions dominated by their party , for sixty-seven of the past 100 years , and their share of the vote at general elections has rarely fallen below 40 per cent . |
| 23 | Listening to the Minister today , it was hard to appreciate that the Conservatives have been in government for 13 years . |
| 24 | During the period in which the Conservatives have been in power it was said , first , that we needed only one terminal , Waterloo . |
| 25 | The Conservatives have been in control of Hereford and Worcester through the chairman 's casting vote . |
| 26 | ‘ Tory Party smoke screens a week before the General Election can not obscure the fact that crime has increased while the Conservatives have been in power . ’ |
| 27 | In South East Thames Regional Health Authority about 0.96% of the NHS spend is on research and development , of which only 0.03% is recorded as for primary care . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The workers have been on duty for the same amount of time whenever measurements are made . |
| 30 | For the past six weeks at Bristol Crown Court three companies involved in the manufacture or supply of the gantry have been on trail . |