Example sentences of "have [be] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of the contracts have been awarded to Northern Ireland institutions and where they have been with other institutions it has been the policy of the Panel to encourage the employment of junior Northern Ireland based researchers on the projects . |
| 2 | But many of the studies have been on non-diabetic subjects and the hypoglycaemic stimulus was not always identical . |
| 3 | Erm and we would point out that er since the nineteen sixties there have been something like two hundred new stations opened erm on the rail network , the vast majority of these have been on Regional Railways . |
| 4 | It is sad when sisters and brothers who have been on good terms quarrel about who gets what , whether the reasons for wanting a particular item are commercial or sentimental . |
| 5 | That is precisely where we have been , which is why so many of the decisions reached in the past two days have been on British initiatives that have been accepted across the whole of Europe . |
| 6 | But where other churches have owned their own schools , as does the Church of Ireland in the South , a similar position has been adopted , though the reasons for the position have been on different grounds . |
| 7 | It is now recognized that people who have been on weight-reducing diets subsequently have a lower calorie requirement than they previously had . |
| 8 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
| 9 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 10 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 11 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 12 | I have been at those dinners where the merits of our contemporaries are discussed , and where Du Camp , as each new name was suggested , would with infinite urbanity correct the general view . |
| 13 | American bond yields have been at 20-year lows , and shares are expensive . |
| 14 | If those who have been to Arab feasts ever wonder what happens to all that food and ‘ tut-tut ’ over the waste , forget it . |
| 15 | ‘ We have been to other schools . |
| 16 | Furthermore , people vary in their tolerance from day to day , and it is not safe to assume that because you have been to 15,000 feet or so without oxygen before , you will be able to do it again . |
| 17 | I have been to both places and can assure you , there is a great difference . |
| 18 | In the 1990s the Bar likes to proclaim that all that has changed , that it is no longer dominated by men who have been to public schools followed by Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 19 | The item below that is the shortfall in planning application fees , this is application fees for er mineral extraction applications which are , these are set as a statutory charge erm we 've picked up in the budget monitoring reports which have been to previous committees that the from this source has been falling off , as a few words explain that in this paragraph . |
| 20 | The Faroe Islands are self-governing , but have been for many years a colony of Denmark , and still rely on the government of the old mother country for international representation . |
| 21 | Many are extremely tense , not only since the infarct , but have been for many years , and it is possible that the inward tension that they suffer has been a contributory factor to their disease . |
| 22 | These will be concerns for his successor as David will take his leave of the Education Department at the end of July and his immediate plans are more leisurely now than they have been for many years . |
| 23 | Erm , please , appalling and have been for many years and er the whole of the road needs to be done . |
| 24 | ‘ House repossessions are at no higher rate than they have been for many years , ’ he says . |
| 25 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 26 | The majority of systems that have been developed have been for restricted domains and small grammars . |
| 27 | My children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 28 | My children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 29 | Yes my children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 30 | Yes my children do go to school oh I was going to say , have been for some months now . |