Example sentences of "been [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Jane Starkie , she , she would have been in the frame had it not been for penalty points during the cross country course , for being a wee bit too slow . |
2 | Until now , Mr Major 's biggest fear has been of revenge attacks on the 2,400 British troops . |
3 | Although once most usually seen in winter , nearly all records since 1938 have been of passage birds at the coast . |
4 | Up to now , distribution has been via system integrators to the Federal and commercial markets , but it is now lowering retail prices for all its ViewStation FX Series of X terminals by 30% to 50% when it sells them direct . |
5 | This readiness to see a company that has been in state hands since 1922 pass into private , maybe foreign , ownership is rare . |
6 | And then er a and then after they had been in hay ricks for a long time they were brought up to the farm and built into a bigger stack , a bigger thing . |
7 | I have n't been in office systems for all that time . |
8 | The wild card in the race , Ross Perot , sent out word that he had no regrets about his longshot bid for the White House , which has been in Republican hands for 12 years . |
9 | We 've got a number of good pension funds that ordinary working people can join , but the issue that has come about since compulsory competitive tendering privatization is those members that 've been in pension funds for maybe twenty , twenty five years now they 're out on the open job market with the wonderful privatized world that we live in , with a free market , and they ca n't afford to make adequate pension provision for themselves . |
10 | Unfortunately , there are too few reliable records to indicate how centralised the authority of this family might have been over Zealot contingents throughout the Holy Land . |
11 | So I was in at , at er Southwell when the job came on community affairs , I 've been on community affairs for the last four years . |