Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] have be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alex , who had given me the cigarettes , was Scottish and had been at Lille for three days ; he had deserted from the Military Police in Germany , and thought that French food was nowhere as good as Glaswegian . |
| 2 | Walker , who has turned 30 and has been at Tynecastle for over three years , will get his full international grounding at a time when goalkeeping problems abound for the national coach . |
| 3 | Hugh was 62 years ' old and had been with Douglas Reyburn for 28 years . |
| 4 | He was 6 years old and had been at the school for three terms when the head , knowing that I was a neighbour and friend of Balbinder 's mother , invited me to go with Mrs Singh to a meeting with the educational psychologist . |
| 5 | But she 's about forty and has been with the company ages . ’ |
| 6 | Sally is 22 and has been with her current boyfriend for three years . |
| 7 | 5. of , a firm having been found to be in breach of Investment Business Regulation 1.50 in that in Stockbridge between 1 June 1991 and 3 March 1992 the firm failed to pay its Investment Business Authorisation Fee for the year ending 31 December 1991 and having been in breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) as applied by Investment Business Regulation 6.09 in that the firm at Stockbridge between 19 December 1991 and 28 January 1992 failed to provide information required of it by the Investigation Committee on 19 December 1991 in exercise of its powers under Bye-law 80(a) concerning the payment of its Investment Business Authorisation Fee for the year ending 31 December 1991 was reprimanded and ordered to pay £l , 000 by way of costs . |
| 8 | Erm , please , appalling and have been for many years and er the whole of the road needs to be done . |
| 9 | My suit case was ready packed and had been for the last week . |
| 10 | In fact , the tea 's all set in the dining-room as usual and has been for … let me see ’ — she put her head on one side — ‘ how many years ? ’ |
| 11 | Vu Oanh , 67 , and Le Phuoc Tho , 64 , were both elected to the secretariat in 1986 and had been in charge of mass mobilization and agriculture , respectively ; Pham Van Kai , 58 , the Soviet-trained Chair of the State Commission for Planning , was one of five southerners in the new politburo and a former mayor of Ho Chi Minh City ; Bui Thien Ngo , 62 , was Permanent Vice-Minister of the Interior ; Nong Duc Manh , 51 , a member of the Tay ethnic group and the first minority leader to be elected to the politburo , was head of the central committee 's commission for nationalities ; Pham The Duyet , 55 , was secretary of the Hanoi party committee and a former trade union leader ; Nguyen Duc Binh , 64 , was director of the Nguyen Duc Binh Institute for training party cadres ; Vo Tran Chi , 64 , was secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City party committee . |
| 12 | Joan 's husband suffers from motor neurone disease , is very weak and has been in a wheelchair for the last nine years , almost totally dependent on her for physical care . |
| 13 | The Wingti government also claimed that the army 's advance was largely unresisted and had been in response to the invitation of local chiefs . |
| 14 | According to the Guinness Book of Records , the oldest archery company in Britain is the Society of Archers of Yorkshire which was not formed until 1673 but has been in being since then . |
| 15 | She was very tidy and had been as a child , she said ‘ I 'm obssessive ’ . |
| 16 | Born in 1896 , he joined Purdey 's in 1918 and has been with them ever since . |
| 17 | The employee was married and had been with a savings bank in a small town for more than 26 years . |
| 18 | After spending some time at 's at Mundford , transferred to Eagle Mill in the early '70s and has been with us ever since . |
| 19 | We think this exercise is very important and have been among a small handful of organisations in Wales who have been consulted so far . |
| 20 | There is a parallel with the BCR here : Which preserved narrow gauge railway was opened in 1876 , declared bankrupt in 1877 , abandoned in 1912 and has been in the hands of private operators since 1915 ? |
| 21 | Exchange control was introduced in 1930 and has been in force ever since , but subject to the provisions of exchange control it was a basic tenet of pre-communist Hungarian law that foreigners had the same rights as Hungarians in all respects ( but for some professions and performing public functions Hungarian citizenship was necessary ) . |
| 22 | All the drawings were published in a magisterial catalogue by Peter Fuhring in 1987 and have been with Hazlitt for the last eighteen months . |
| 23 | The show was commissioned by the Rochdale Art Gallery in 1987 , staged there in '89 and has been on the road since then . |
| 24 | The man was a fellow-American and had been on a tour of European branches for the previous three days . |
| 25 | Both men are American and have been among the best-paid executives of a British quoted company since the merger three years ago of SmithKline , an American drug company , and Beecham . |
| 26 | She started ‘ working ’ at the age of 14 and has been on the streets for five years . |
| 27 | For this purpose a new statutory pre-notification procedure was introduced by the Companies Act 1989 and has been in effect since April 1990 . |
| 28 | The resulting report was most constructive and has been of significant value in defining the Group 's plan of action in relation to HS&E initiatives . |
| 29 | Spectators are there in thousands and have been since the previous day , before the roads were closed for the Tour 's progress . |
| 30 | Of the sixteen women in their survey who were currently working-class and had been in institutional care , ten had premarital pregnancies . |