Example sentences of "[noun] have been [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top rated American TV programme has been beguiling children for the last 13 years . |
| 2 | One of the world 's greatest classical violinists has been surprising audiences at a top JAZZ club . |
| 3 | An additional complication to Rugby 's future has been legal writs for damages by Mal Malik , a former Coventry and Rugby flank-forward . |
| 4 | Given that our Association had been 75 years outside the wider Trade Union Movement , our Delegates were concerned at what type of reception they might receive from the Conference . |
| 5 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 6 | By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two . |
| 7 | Thereafter , their books have been follow-up studies of this second group of children . |
| 8 | The only bother he 's had in Lothian Road has been hostile looks from casuals in the Burnt Post bar . |
| 9 | She just knew that a basement room was for sitting in , a children 's ward for visiting , and railway stations had been prime targets for being bombed . |
| 10 | The Manchus had been full citizens with diplomatic privileges for more than thirty years now , but there still existed between them and other humans a coldness which could not be explained simply by xenophobia . |
| 11 | The Ypres salient , where since 1914 the Allies had been prime targets for the German guns , had been flattened , leaving only a small salient around Passchendaele itself . |
| 12 | ANDES 21 de junio ( Asociacion Nacional de Educadores Salvadorenos ) is a founder member of the BPR and openly expresses its support for the FDR-FMLN , while both the state and the Catholic universities have been consistent critics of the lack of democratic and civil liberties and have argued cogently for the need for social and economic reforms . |
| 13 | The Thatcher Years have been splendid ones for a goodly number of golf members throughout this Royal and Ancient land of ours . |
| 14 | The last two years have been uncertain ones for the Gloucestershire regiment . |
| 15 | And the past few years have been good years of course |
| 16 | Does not that answer prove that the past 13 years have been wasted years in terms of the Government 's commitment to the footwear industry ? |
| 17 | Members of trade unions and other grass roots organisations have been particular targets of killings and ‘ disappearances ’ by the armed forces , who have accused them of supporting the armed opposition Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) . |
| 18 | Hostility to wealth and demands for its redistribution have been normal features of British politics since the 1890s . |
| 19 | The event has been 9 months in the making . |
| 20 | Here , the manageress Giovanna has been welcoming guests for 30 years and prides herself on offering a simple , comfortable hotel and a good choice of menu . |
| 21 | Chroniclers and poets in their embittered criticism of papal initiatives for peace were scarcely less vehement than the lords and commons in parliament , and when at last , in 1378 , an Italian pope was elected , an Englishman at Rome rejoiced because ‘ Previous popes and their cardinals had been greater enemies of the kingdom of England than the king of France himself . ’ |
| 22 | The return of Chalmers to form and his ever-improving tactical maturity have been essential elements in the Scottish success this year . |
| 23 | The return of Chalmers to form and his ever-improving tactical maturity have been essential elements in the Scottish success this year |
| 24 | The progression of destructionn moves from affecting the capacity for a full range of emotional feelings and then into affecting intellectual processes and finally affecting physical health , although ther will of course have been many episodes of some damage to physical well-being throughout the progress of the disease . |
| 25 | Rob Wilson 's tackle shop in Brora has been welcoming anglers for more than fifty years . |
| 26 | The district has been national finalists in the Britain in Bloom contest in the last four years and this has been achieved by the magnificent floral displays which can be seen throughout the summer months in our area . |
| 27 | The show 's organisers and officials of the Canadian Hellenic Congress , an organisation of Greeks in Canada , say the exhibition has been five years in the making and that it reflects the excellent cultural ties between Greeks and Canadians . |
| 28 | These accusations were denied by the government , the BSP , and the Soviet ambassador , Viktor Sharapov , who at a press conference on Aug. 26 said that his only contacts with the government and the BSP had been official ones at which he had delivered the statement of the State Committee for the State of Emergency ( the Soviet coup leaders ) and Gorbachev 's subsequent repudiation of it , and had discussed the forthcoming visit to Moscow of a Bulgarian economic mission . |
| 29 | Fiscal stability and governmental co-operation have been two features of the tax regime in the past which have encouraged investment in the UK . ’ |
| 30 | Rangers have been entertaining crowds with a slick passing game that has rewarded them with only three defeats in their last 21 League matches . |