Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [be] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often the emphasis on shared values has been at its greatest in time of war or other national crisis . |
| 2 | Ever since then , China in its many and varied aspects has been in my mind , and I believe it was on that Saturday morning in Aunt Janie 's potato patch that I first became interested in the Orient . |
| 3 | The teenagers had been on their way home from a party just after the outbreak of hostilities and , according to one military policeman , had tried to crash the road block , almost running down one of the MPs . |
| 4 | ‘ It is not very much , ’ concedes Anna Perry , ‘ which makes me wonder why so many of these porters had been with us for so long . |
| 5 | Now , if any of your other readers have been with you that length of time then , like me , they will have seen many changes in the magazine in terms of staff , reviews , layout and style . |
| 6 | ‘ I further assert that these spores have been with us since the birth of mankind . |
| 7 | ‘ You mean those kids have been by themselves all the afternoon — just for the sake of a tea — or curling ? ’ |
| 8 | Electric cars have been with us as milk floats for many years . |
| 9 | The Shah , according to Afshar , replied that the British and American ambassadors had been against it ; they thought it was better to have a quiet man like Azhari who could discuss problems with mullahs leading the revolutionary ferment . |
| 10 | The rats had been at it , the body is already half-gnawed . ’ |
| 11 | As though the mice had been at it . |
| 12 | Cos my feet have been in them now , can you put these like that ? |
| 13 | Laura 's parents have been with her since she was flown to the US on May 30 . |
| 14 | The only visible damage over the years has been to its statuary . |
| 15 | The leadership change was widely seen as an attempt to rejuvenate the party , whose fortunes had been at their lowest since it first came to power in 1981 . |
| 16 | In particular , booksellers have been among my greatest supporters . |
| 17 | I suspect that tensions concerning rights , freedoms and responsibilities have been with us since the earliest days of humanity . |
| 18 | The greatest fear the airmen have is of what could happen to the people of Somalia after the international forces leave . |
| 19 | All his dealings had been with himself and that larger self of family which had been thrown together by marriage or accident : he had never been able to go out from his shell of self . |
| 20 | Apples have been with us since the dawn of time , in countless varieties of colour , shape and size . |
| 21 | Er , we have been in er organising these new seats , about the same time as the Labour government took in nineteen seventy eight , er I said that when I intervened upon him and I say it again it 's worth paying on the records , exactly the same pressures have been on us as were as on them . |
| 22 | Admiral Scowcroft 's visit at the head of a senior delegation including the Deputy Secretary of State , Mr Lawrence Eagleburger , seemed to offer China 's leadership a face saving way to patch up its rift with Washington , with whom China 's relations have been at their lowest ebb since Mr Nixon 's trail-blazing 1972 trip to Beijing . |
| 23 | Individual properties and relations have been with us since Aristotle , and have had the support of such diverse philosophers as Peirce and Stout , but they have not always got a good name . |
| 24 | The tears had been for himself , for Arabella and for a child who would never be born . |
| 25 | At the same time , some women in the older generation believed that they were a less significant source of advice and support for their daughters than their own mothers had been for them , and all were concerned to ensure that their support did not amount to ‘ interference ’ ( Blaxter and Paterson , 1982 , especially pp. 174–9 ) . |
| 26 | Probably the whole house had been cosy and well-run when these ladies had been in their prime . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | The identification of the extra meanings mentioned above can only take place once the initial sentences have been in themselves understood . |
| 29 | Quinn might have had a hat-trick and added : ‘ The last two games have been among my best performances here . |
| 30 | One minute Patsy 's hands had been by his side , the next moment Mike 's nose was split and the blood was gushing down his face and flooding the back of his throat . |