Example sentences of "have been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 But many of the studies have been on non-diabetic subjects and the hypoglycaemic stimulus was not always identical .
4 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 .
5 there 's been a lot of people that have been on that level for a long while .
6 I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 It is now recognized that people who have been on weight-reducing diets subsequently have a lower calorie requirement than they previously had .
11 A disgruntled father whose two sons have been on several skiing fortnights feels school trips are run primarily for the teachers ' convenience .
12 Is she , where , is she actually proposing that these should be located ? in , in the countryside , in , in towns ? because they 're sens sensitivities o on that particular on the siting of that er particular activity and er we 're seen it elsewhere , er , those of us who have been on this committee for some time will know the concern that there are about the location of waste recycling facilities and er as I say I would hate that we would have a list of sites across the county which would just start paying us money and quite frankly should never be started .
13 A lady who suffers with a hiatus hernia wrote , ‘ I have had to take Rennies after meals for years but since I have been on this diet I have n't had a Rennie for five weeks !
14 ‘ Look , we have been on this world a matter of a few days .
15 All four have been on unconditional bail since October last year .
16 Since then they have been on active duty in Aden , Persian Gulf , Malaya , Borneo , Northern Ireland , and Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf .
17 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 .
18 They have been at each others ' throats .
19 They have been at each others ' throats .
20 They have been at each others ' throats .
21 Supporters of gun control are in a stronger position now than they have been at any time since 1968 , after the shootings of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy .
22 Because of the repayments that were made of borrowing during that period , in the midst of a recession we are now in a better position to borrow prudently — than we have been at any stage in the past : to borrow prudently and to maintain our commitment to a balanced budget in the medium term .
23 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 .
24 The range of decorative techniques which have been at some time applied to metalwork is a subject for many books , not just a few pages .
25 American bond yields have been at 20-year lows , and shares are expensive .
26 Fire crews have been at full stretch dealing with flooded houses mainly in the Cotswolds .
27 I have been at this job long enough , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , to know in advance what the different phases will be .
28 If those who have been to Arab feasts ever wonder what happens to all that food and ‘ tut-tut ’ over the waste , forget it .
29 Foreigners are flooding the market — in the last three weeks alone , six Norwegians have been to Premier League clubs on trial .
30 ‘ We have been to other schools .
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