Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best moments of my life have been with music . ’ |
| 2 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 3 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 4 | As most of their expansion had been in transport sectors , it was a natural step for them to try switching production from trucks to tanks . |
| 5 | His last sight of her reliquary had been at morning Mass . |
| 6 | All day long he insisted that they already knew who the fellow-Communists of his branch had been in the Forties and that he did not want to ‘ crawl through the mud for no purpose ’ . |
| 7 | But even in the 1820s some of his work had been on electricity and magnetism , which would now be thought of as physics ; and in the 1830s he moved decidedly in this direction . |
| 8 | If one of his family had been in the same position surely he 'd expect a stiffer sentence than the one given today |
| 9 | Which MP claimed to be the first in a thousand generations of his family to have been to university ? |
| 10 | Finally this study has given me a good idea of what life has been for people living in the past in America , where as before , I would n't have had a clue and it 's also taught me that no matter how many times you read a book , you 'll always find new links and connections . |
| 11 | The fourth way in which the underclass is immobilized at the bottom of our society has been through the spread of means-tested assistance , which has a devastating effect on the initiative of people on low incomes . |
| 12 | Much of our assistance has been in the form of contributions through the multilateral institutions the European community programmes , the European bank of reconstruction and developing , the world bank . |
| 13 | The experience has already been invaluable , as proved in the recent World Cup when the backbone of our team had been to the 1990 CANZ series where we lost all four matches ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Others of our group have been in court on trespass before and the Invermoriston address has been accepted . ’ |
| 15 | People were cruel , like her father had been before the divorce , like Miss Shaw and Miss Rist were to Miss Malabedeely . |
| 16 | While such world-famous names as BSA and Triumph were modestly adjusting and ‘ tarting up ’ models which in their day had been in front , the Japanese and particularly Honda looked at the situation through new eyes . |
| 17 | Dr Mardell said the last distribution of aid in Srebrenica before his arrival had been on 12 December and had provided four kilos of flour per family — enough for about one week . |
| 18 | A substantial contingent of men from his abbey had been among Louis the Pious 's forces in Aquitaine since the previous autumn , and when they returned to Ferrières in July 840 , they brought first-hand news of Gerard 's appointment as commander of Charles 's garrison at Limoges . |
| 19 | Usthinks the company doth protest too much : despite the fact that the countdown to its flotation has been under way for some weeks now , and Quality Software Products Plc has finally formally announced that ‘ following last week 's successful launch of Universal OLAS ’ it ‘ has decided to begin the process of seeking a listing on the London Stock Exchange , ’ it still says that ‘ no final decision will be taken for some time , ’ making it sound as if the company is signalling frantically that it would prefer to be acquired if only someone would come forward offering more money than it could raise in a public flotation . |