Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [vb base] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reed Canoes & Camping of Cambridge have been amongst the retailers having a difficult time of late . |
| 2 | Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work . |
| 3 | Shareholders in Unisys have been through so much misery , the fear that the IBM mainframe blight will soon infect the company is so great that no reasonable offer for the company is likely to be refused — and while the Unisys debt burden is now manageable , it is still onerous for a company of Unisys ' size , but AT&T 's credit remains almost as good as gold . |
| 4 | Would the Prime Minister confirm that today 's figures show the biggest rise in long-term unemployment in 10 years , that 1.3 million people in Britain have been without work for more than six months and that 750,000 of those have been without work for more than a year ? |
| 5 | For much of this century , the mines in Cornwall have been in the doldrums . |
| 6 | Women in Cheltenham have been among the first to try out the NORPLANT contraceptive . |
| 7 | The local press in Dyfed have been in no doubt that the bank were to blame to ruining a business of the type desperately needed in the area . |
| 8 | Dozens of Maxwell pensioners from Oxfordshire have been at Westminster as part of a national lobby about their lost pensions . |
| 9 | Kim 's parents from Oxfordshire have been in court to hear three days of evidence . |
| 10 | Dire though the attacks on Belfast have been during the past two months , it is a sign of just how successful economic development has been that the IRA should have felt it necessary to retaliate in the way that it has . |