Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] have [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great deal of diversification has been of a conglomerate , ‘ unrelated ’ nature , but it seems hard to find any justification for unrelated diversification . |
| 2 | Pre-Windscale , he recalled , two Secretaries of State had been on a collision course . |
| 3 | If Laura dropped in conversation that a piece of furniture had been in the family for generations , who was to argue ? |
| 4 | The Department of Energy has been under pressure to expand its efforts on renewable energy after a report by departmental advisers concluded that Britain could generate half its electricity from natural sources within 20 years , a point also made by several environmental groups . |
| 5 | We followed up the representations that were made by the hon. Lady and by others on that point , and the regional offices of the Department of Employment have been in negotiation with TECs to try to establish the extent to which they need additional resources to meet the YT guarantee . |
| 6 | Dividing the colony will merely make its members more vulnerable , they argue , while previous efforts to breed rhinos in captivity have been at best unreliable . |
| 7 | She had wanted to speak to Debbie after the others had left , and all the talk over lunch had been of the trip to the Tate . |
| 8 | The transition from symbol to politician was to be far more protracted and painful than the transition from soldier to symbol had been in 1940 . |
| 9 | Conversely Newco may be entitled to deductions of VAT if the change of use has been from exempt use to taxable use . |
| 10 | Erm most of the i involvement I 've ever had in any kind of job has been by accident . |
| 11 | The ideology of respectability had been in the process of articulation throughout the century . |
| 12 | My baptism of fire had been with Leon Brittan who was Chief Secretary until the 1983 general election . |
| 13 | As I said before , the unity of Judaism had been in question since the time of Alexander . |
| 14 | The clearest opposition to the achievement of a measure of integration has been from the Roman catholic church . |
| 15 | The main areas of growth have been in inter-bank deposits , certificates of deposit and the foreign currency markets . |
| 16 | Within these phenomena four main areas of study have been of interest to rural geographers ; first , and most enduring of all , the study of rural population change ; second , and more recent in its concern , the study of rural communities ; third , and of more general relevance to other chapters in this book , the classification and definition of rural areas by both their population and employment characteristics ; and fourth , the study of employment in rural areas . |
| 17 | During this time I was able to develop some understanding of the sorts of backgrounds my interviewees came from , what their hopes , fears , values and experiences of life had been like before they joined the movement and how these might have changed since . |
| 18 | The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity have been at Bartestree Convent in Herefordshire for 130 years . |
| 19 | The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity have been at Bartestree Convent in Herefordshire for 130 years . |
| 20 | It is well known that the plastic used on original Fenders used to fade from white to a sort of greenish grey , and this type of scratchplate has been on offer as a cosmetic retro-fit for some time . |
| 21 | To quote Bethe : ‘ It is difficult to describe to a non-scientist the novelty of the new concept … it was to me , who had been rather closely associated with the programme , about as surprising as the discovery of fission had been to physicists in 1939 . ’ |
| 22 | Most of their work to date has been with blue-chip companies , but they have also handled assignments from leading merchant banks and fashion retail houses . |
| 23 | A second focus for integration has been through the design of materials based on one subject discipline but specifically planned to feed across the curriculum . |
| 24 | Other than that , the main focus of attention has been on whether corporatist state administration is bureaucratic ( Etzioni-Halevy 1983 , pp. 69–71 ) . |
| 25 | The most systematic use of this sort of approach has been in the study of the coinage of the last century of the Roman Republic . |
| 26 | To do this he must assure himself that , on the day he is nominated as a candidate , he is 21 years of age or over , a British subject or a citizen of the Irish Republic and either that his name is on the register of electors in the local government area for which he intends to stand as a candidate , or that he has resided in the area ( or , in the case of a parish or community , within three miles of the area ) for a period of one year , or that he has occupied as owner or tenant land in the area for one year , or that his principal or only place of work has been in the area for one year . |
| 27 | The camp was a most as noisy as the point of work had been during the day . |
| 28 | The Treaty of Rome contained no specific references to the need for the Community to develop an Industrial Policy , consequently the main focus towards industry has been on competition policy , and on the creation of the SEM . |
| 29 | Here , the appropriate leader of change had been in some doubt . |
| 30 | The prohibition of cannabis is no more effective now than the prohibition of alcohol has been in the past . |