Example sentences of "[verb] be [prep] the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jackson must 've been under the effects of the anaesthetic after a nose job to come out with something so bad . |
| 2 | Dr Williams has been through the ranks of the order and now holds the post of County Surgeon for County Durham . |
| 3 | Beyond the fringe Nicky Mason , who has been on the fringes of England 's best men 's team for 30 years , showed during England 's outstanding 5-1 victory that he can still … |
| 4 | She started ‘ working ’ at the age of 14 and has been on the streets for five years . |
| 5 | Living rough : Stewart has been on the streets in Edinburgh for three years , sleeping wherever he can find shelter and surviving on a mixture of benefits and begging . |
| 6 | Though its timing caught out the markets , the krona/ecu link has been on the cards for some months . |
| 7 | The merger has been on the cards for some time and of course makes perfect sense . |
| 8 | Our marriage has been on the cards from day one , and there 's not a damned thing either of us can do about it . ’ |
| 9 | Also , much of the money for the campaign has come from the community itself , and where outside groups have provided assistance , either financially or otherwise , it has been on the terms of the YCCC rather than anyone else . |
| 10 | Until an hour or two ago I certainly did n't know that this problem had arisen , but the date April has been on the lips of my er Honourable Friend er and of the Noble Minister er I used to represent part of the City of Leeds and Honourable er a and Noble Lord you 'll have heard recently of behaviour at Elland Road Football Ground on the death of Sir Matt Busby and one can only wonder what sort of people er we 're dealing with , but many of them arrive at Leeds City Station on the day of a match and they come early and they have then to get their way to Elland Road and there are often real problems . |
| 11 | He has been with the police for 19 years , and has served at Colchester , Chelmsford , police HQ and for two years worked for Scotland Yard in conjunction with Interpol . |
| 12 | Whether it 's petty cash , invoicing , or conference organising , 's your person ! has been at the maltings for just over a year and takes care of all those time consuming , but essential , administration services , appreciated by us all . |
| 13 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 14 | The more the institutions of representative government demand technical efficiency from administrative organizations , the more those organizations have found it necessary to employ specialists and the more difficult it has been for the judgements of the career officials to be resisted . |
| 15 | Since its foundation in 1943 , the Norwegian School of management ( NSM — Handeslhøyskolen BI ) has been among the leaders in developing innovative programs for both Norwegian and international students . |
| 16 | Each has been among the leaders in positive action and now welcomes an examination of impediments to change . |
| 17 | ‘ Nicky has been round the houses at club level and that helps . ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps the nearest the British have got to a building like this has been in the pages of The Eagle . |
| 19 | The Union has been in the interests of both this country and Scotland for many years , and it remains so . |
| 20 | The numbers unemployed and in education rose but a bigger change has been in the numbers on the Youth Training Scheme which was set up in 1983 . |
| 21 | The troubled 1986 ICL start-up housing the Distributed Array Processing , DAP , technology — built on the single instruction multiple data technique of massively parallel processing — has been in the hands of the receiver , Price Waterhouse , since June 16 . |
| 22 | The company , which has been in the hands of receivers since February , faces the prospect of its production lines halting after a judge refused to rule that a crucial supplier , to whom it owes large sums of money , was legally obliged to continue providing vital components . |
| 23 | The unique collection , assembled over the past twenty-five years by Lavalin 's ex-chief Bernard Lamarre and corporate curator Leo Rosshandler , has been in the hands of an international consortium of eight creditor banks since Lavalin 's failure last year . |
| 24 | It has been in the hands of the Maitland family for more than 400 years since its creation by John Maitland , Chancellor of Scotland , and later enlargement by the Duke of Lauderdale . |
| 25 | There is a parallel with the BCR here : Which preserved narrow gauge railway was opened in 1876 , declared bankrupt in 1877 , abandoned in 1912 and has been in the hands of private operators since 1915 ? |
| 26 | Saatchi has been in the doldrums since late 1987 . |
| 27 | Scotland has been in the doldrums of international competition for years , only able to raise its game in occasional moments of glorious defeat as in the last European Championship . |
| 28 | The mortgage market has been in the doldrums for three years and lending is shrinking steadily , partly because there is only a trickle of new customers and partly because existing customers are paying off at least part of their mortgages when they can . |
| 29 | The market has been in the doldrums in the wake of the suppression of the pro-democracy movement in China this summer and a decision by an arm of the Chinese Government to make an investment of the size being planned by CITIC is likely to have a considerable impact . |
| 30 | Nimslo will also give no firm figures for sales in the US where the system has been in the shops for a year . |