Example sentences of "have been [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | there 's been a lot of people that have been on that level for a long while . |
| 2 | I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane |
| 3 | A disgruntled father whose two sons have been on several skiing fortnights feels school trips are run primarily for the teachers ' convenience . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | ‘ Look , we have been on this world a matter of a few days . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I have been at this job long enough , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , to know in advance what the different phases will be . |
| 11 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |
| 12 | However , those who are unemployed , especially if they have been for some time , may find it is more important to send out as many letters as possible , in the hope of getting some response . |
| 13 | I am much slimmer and a better shape than I have been for some time ( or for months , years , etc. ) and I am going to get even slimmer and achieve an even better figure — a figure I never thought I could have . |
| 14 | ‘ I think you do follow us , ’ Cranston replied , ‘ and have been for some time . |
| 15 | Well , we have been for some time . |
| 16 | To live in a beautiful country , and to enure myself as much as possible to the labour of the field , have been for this year past my dream of the day , my sigh at midnight . |
| 17 | To live in a beautiful country & to inure myself as much as possible to the labors of the field , have been for this year past my dream of the day , my Sigh at midnight — but to enjoy these blessings near you , to see you daily , to tell you all my thoughts in their first birth , and to hear your 's , to be mingling identities with you , as it were ; — the vision-weaving Fancy has indeed often pictured such things , but Hope never dared whisper a promise ! ’ |
| 18 | On each occasion the items stolen have been of little value , but the thefts are a continual thorn in the side of the cricket club committee . |
| 19 | It is interesting to note that other countries are now copying our know-how funds because they have been of such help to the former Soviet Union and other eastern European countries . |
| 20 | The rich picture should include all the important hard ‘ facts ’ of the organisational situation , and the examples given have been of this nature . |
| 21 | Variations of the theme , e.g. with different boundary conditions or with internal heating replacing heating from below , have been of some interest ; but all the specific results in this chapter will relate to the conditions above . |
| 22 | Strictly speaking , marriage does not contribute directly to population change , but , because of its association with the legitimacy of births in most countries , marriage rates have been of some interest . |
| 23 | Though he survived and prospered , there have been times this season when the chances of Mr Stringer lasting as Norwich manager until FA Cup semi-final day seemed remote . |
| 24 | We have been without this issue as she is still receiving the last of her treatment from Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 25 | Most essential of all for the future assessment of public finance , we must establish a truly independent source of economic statistics to ensure that judgments are not distorted — as they have been under this Government , by political interference in their collection or presentation . |
| 26 | … in recent weeks , Bush and Major have been under some pressure from the families of people who died at Lockerbie . |
| 27 | It is he whose father was rebel Conservative MP Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler standing as a Lib Dem in East Anglia but we have been down that road enough . |
| 28 | WE have been down this road before . |
| 29 | I mean I have been into this window frame business . |
| 30 | House prices will not rise in the same way and consumers who have been through that experience have been hard bitten by it . |