Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb base] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | blah , blah , blah , recommended that interview have been in both directions despite in this difficult across , and I could n't say when you could do that at midday , but the implication is you have to do it when you |
| 2 | The total losses have been of the order of 25,000 , but the fact remains that there are still more than 140,000 people directly involved in the defence industry and more than 120,000 indirectly involved . |
| 3 | Such an approach is , of course , not exclusively suited for " outsiders " analysing another community 's talk : in fact , most studies of this kind have been by monolinguals studying conversations in their own or related dialects . |
| 4 | The two children in this story have been through very bad experiences . |
| 5 | WHILE most British eyes have been on the election of a new Westminster parliament , a 500-member pensioner 's parliament from all 12 countries of the European Community has called for better pensions throughout the EC . |
| 6 | More than 300 workers have been on strike since 29 January over a dispute about enforced lay-offs . |
| 7 | First of all British troops have been in in Northern Ireland for a hundred and ninety five years since eighteen hundred . |
| 8 | Does he appreciate that for every single day that he and his right hon. Friend have been in office in Whitehall place , we have similarly lost 25 farm workers and 14 farmers ? |
| 9 | Some people have been in hospital for 34 years and have never had their independence . |
| 10 | Some decks have been in production virtually unchanged for two decades ( the sublime Linn Sondek , for instance ) . |
| 11 | All my examples this month have been in Fair Isle . |
| 12 | Black artists , photographers , film makers and cultural critics have been in the forefront of demands and attempts to break the bounds of an aesthetic of ‘ positive images ’ . |
| 13 | Of these , coatings and electronic materials have been under pressure due to the recession in user industries such as cars , computers and construction . |
| 14 | So that when Greg Hocking , after an evening marking essays , came in at nine-fifteen for a good night pint , his friend the landlord said : ‘ Your old girls have been at it today . ’ |
| 15 | In my experience most people who suffer a myocardial infarct have been under pressure with associated exhaustion and fatigue for a prolonged period . |
| 16 | And I agree with Theresa , all of my surgery cases in this matter have been from wives saying , I can not live on the maintenance which my husband is not paying me |
| 17 | Today , many people who might earlier this century have been in hospital are now living in a residential home . |
| 18 | President , Congress , since nineteen seventy nine local authorities and public services have been under attack from the Tory government . |
| 19 | The US electronic industries have been in recession for about four years , and Morton 's business in this area is driven by computers , telecommunications and consumer electronics including components for cars , all of which have been hit . |
| 20 | The rapidity of Japan 's economic and political transformation and the enduring influence of Tokugawa practices and ideas into this century mean that in Japan , as in other late industrializers such as the USSR , agricultural issues and the impact of the rural sector have been of crucial importance throughout the past 150 years . |
| 21 | The reasons for this decentralising movement towards the growth of workplace bargaining activity in Western European countries have been in part economic , as a result of generally high employment and continuous economic growth in the post-war years to the mid-1970s along with a varying capacity to pay of separate employers . |
| 22 | Such reactions have been at best unhelpful and at worst extremely damaging . |
| 23 | Where such contracts have been in force for 3 years or longer , but are not for a specific undertaking eg building a house , claims are admissible under the policy . |
| 24 | The hon. Member for Linlithgow is only too well aware of how successful the central institutions have been in working with the expertise in the Scottish Office . |
| 25 | In parts of southern Africa individual units have been in use for over 20 years . |
| 26 | Foreigners are flooding the market — in the last three weeks alone , six Norwegians have been to Premier League clubs on trial . |
| 27 | Much of the blame must be laid at the door of the disorganised America 's Cup Organising Committee , who for the past 10 months have been on the brink of bankruptcy . |
| 28 | Quite a number of experiments leading to such identification have been with small aspect ratio Bénard convection ( Sections 22.1 , 22.4 ) [ 87 , 181 , 246 ] ; small in this context means not much greater than unity . |
| 29 | Similar provisions have been in force since 1980 . |
| 30 | 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 . |