Example sentences of "[noun] have been [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Lotus Notes has been on the market for some time , and is already being used by many of the world 's largest companies . |
| 2 | The channel tunnel rail link has been at the centre of my thoughts about my own urban concerns . |
| 3 | Indeed it has been a skill whose weakness has been at the root of many criticisms of GCSE papers where short answers are not deemed to be adequate foundation for A level . |
| 4 | Jenkins has been in the job for about ten days , so she can be forgiven for forgetting a lot of names , but she does have a long history of dealing with elderly people . |
| 5 | Bramham Park has been in the Lane Fox family for eight generations , since Robert Benson and the first Lord Bingley built the House and laid out the grounds in the manner of Versailles in 1698 and George Fox married his daughter . |
| 6 | The most important contextual change has been in the labour market . |
| 7 | Funding for research of this kind has been on a scale not approached by any other area of sociological enquiry . |
| 8 | The least coverage has been in the realm of news and current affairs , where until the recent AIDS and Clause 28 reportage gay stories have been given only very occasional attention . |
| 9 | Since it began using the gas phase process in 1979 , ICI has been at the forefront of process control and development and has succeeded in covering the whole product range with this new technology . |
| 10 | ICI has been in the polypropylene business since the early 1960s and currently has capacity for 300 kt per year , part at Wilton in the UK , part at Rozenburg in Holland . |
| 11 | ICI has been in the polyethylene terephthalate business since the 1940s when it began to develop the material as a fibre — ‘ Terylene ’ — following its invention by two British chemists . |
| 12 | Felix has been on the scheme for nine months , Gerald for two years . |
| 13 | Ian has been with the company for four years as a qualified Textile Technologist and Garry is learning the skills during his first year . |
| 14 | Ben has been in the home since the beginning of the year when , while appearing as the Sheriff of Nottingham in a panto in Whitchurch , he was taken ill in his digs . |
| 15 | How many times have you sat down at your machine and thought ‘ I do n't think I can cope with this ’ and within the next five minutes all the knitting has been on the floor ? |
| 16 | Apart from public education , my own field of interest and experience has been in the discourse analysis of language in the magistrates ' court , where I have played the roles of a bilingual interpreter and of a sociolinguist observing the language scene . |
| 17 | The ‘ Fury and the Spitfire has been to an airshow the previous day at Yeovilton , they had then flown to Humberside for another airshow and were on their way home . |
| 18 | For the last three years , N C V O has been at the centre of the critical debates . |
| 19 | While this struggle has been in the making , gay men in youth work have remained silent . |
| 20 | The Town and Country Planning Association has been in the forefront of plans to promote a change in government policy on the North-South Divide . |
| 21 | Also , my share of the Lothians has been in the care of my cousin the Bishop of Alba . |
| 22 | Communities Against the Bidston Incinerator has been at the forefront of the fight to ensure that the controversial plant is not built . |
| 23 | Richard Jones , currently with Anglesey side Cemaes Bay , was formerly on Bangor City 's books and together with club-mate Simon Flowers has been at the Racecourse this week . |
| 24 | Scott has been around the rock and blues circuit in Ireland for some time and has played with many of the top musicians here . |
| 25 | The man responsible for tackling Britain 's rising crime has been on the campaign trail in the region today . |
| 26 | The drawing has been in the patron 's family since that date and has never previously been exhibited or published . |
| 27 | Detailed seismic evidence indicates that the underthrusting has been at an angle of about 15° over a distance of about 300 km ; perhaps significantly this roughly corresponds to the average width of the Himalayas . |
| 28 | If your apprenticeship has been in the district where you intend to farm , so much the better , for you will have experience of local conditions and friends to help you look sensibly at whatever offers . |
| 29 | The traditional approach to the training and selection of headteachers has been on the basis of technical competence reinforced by practical experience . |
| 30 | ‘ I am convinced that much of the success achieved by the Arsenal has been through the team quickly sensing a weakness in the opposition , ’ Chapman commented . |