Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [vb base] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contract discussions have been under way since early this year , according to West German sources . |
| 2 | At the rally Chief Buthelezi called on the ANC leader , Nelson Mandela , to ‘ stop posturing ’ and join him at a series of public meetings to eradicate violence in areas where ANC and Inkatha supporters have been at war . |
| 3 | but fifty seven of you out of sixty three car owners have been in an accident , is that , yes |
| 4 | Some public sector organizations have been through the debate over an agonizing number of years : local authorities in the UK did so at the turn of the century and generally concluded that ‘ receipts and payments ’ was not sufficient . |
| 5 | Fortunately , not all recent pub refurbishments have been in this vein . |
| 6 | Two groups of council officials have been in London pleading for more money from the government . |
| 7 | Strictly speaking , marriage does not contribute directly to population change , but , because of its association with the legitimacy of births in most countries , marriage rates have been of some interest . |
| 8 | Disputes between planners and private sector developers have been over matters of detail . |
| 9 | Managers have not , on the whole , been predisposed to numerically oriented analysis , clinicians have not pushed for cost or outcome data preferring to focus upon patient care processes and cash inputs have been on the basis of fairly crude recurring allocations . |
| 10 | The most complex and prolonged human/dolphin associations have been with bottlenose dolphins , but Doak thinks that they are by no means limited to this species . |
| 11 | Accident investigators have been at the scene this morning trying to piece together what happened . |
| 12 | Accident investigators have been at the scene this morning trying to piece together what happened . |
| 13 | And if it does , will the task-force leaders become in time what the product managers have been at Proctor & Gamble : the basic units of management and the company 's field officers ? |
| 14 | Less than 5 per cent of the Ansett and Australian Airlines fleets have been in the air , using management pilots in a skeleton service supplemented by Royal Australian Air Force planes and overseas airlines . |
| 15 | Many of these people , training providers , employers and job seekers have been in touch to tell us how worthwhile the events were . |
| 16 | Traditional peg tiles have been in great demand since the storms of the past few years , so for Tenterden tile makers Spicer , the clouds had a silver lining . |
| 17 | Although employment protection provisions have been in place for 18 years now , all too often reports of unfair dismissal cases are variations on the same theme : companies trying to get rid of pregnant employees in an effort to avoid extra expense and disruption to the working routine . |
| 18 | Speaking at the opening of the event on a misty morning NSA Wales and Borders chairman Andrew Jones said : ‘ We as sheep farmers have been in the mist for some time , but lets hope that the outlook is much better and that there are better days to come . ’ |
| 19 | Mr Kinnock , however , has moved Labour back to the centre and since 1987 the two former Alliance parties have been in disarray . |
| 20 | American bond yields have been at 20-year lows , and shares are expensive . |
| 21 | It is difficult to assess exactly how important such credit effects have been in this recession . |
| 22 | ‘ Hot metal ’ glue guns have been on the d-i-y market for some time . |
| 23 | Hundreds of staff at polytechnic and further education colleges have been on strike in a protest over pay . |
| 24 | However , the most striking developments in welfare services have been on the delivery side rather than the personal counselling aspect . |
| 25 | But not all station encampments have been of rail travellers . |
| 26 | In Ireland , credit unions have been in existence for a decade longer than in Britain , but there are now over 450 unions , with a membership exceeding three-quarters of a million . |
| 27 | Irvin and Martin 's assessment techniques have been in great demand abroad , even as the British science establishment closes ranks against it . |
| 28 | Joint consultative committees and joint care planning teams have been in place since the 1974 reorganisation of the NHS , but joint finance of community care projects on any significant scale dates from 1976 . |
| 29 | Exchange rate changes have been at times suggested as a justifiable response to productivity growth rate differentials . |
| 30 | THE league tables of school exam results have been in the local and the national papers , and have been featured on the television . |