Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] have been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the day after Holly had been up to London to apply from the Consulate for a visa there had been the telephone call at Letterworth Engineering . |
| 2 | In Ivory Coast the transfer of ownership has been essentially from the foreign private investor to the local private investor : government remains the owner of 50 per cent of corporate capital ( as it has been since the 1960s ) and the foreign investors ' share has been reduced to 30 per cent , with the local private sector taking the remainder . |
| 3 | After the Portuguese mission left Abyssinia , Lebna Dengel found himself increasingly faced by the threat from the Muslim states of Ifat and of Adal , which included Harar , with which ever since the fourteenth century the Emperors of Abyssinia had been intermittently at war ; these states were forever encroaching on the eastern borders of the empire in a war of raid and counter-raid . |
| 4 | Since 1987 an extensive programme of restoration has been underway on the fresco cycle by Masolino in the chapel of Saint Catherine in the upper church . |
| 5 | Wilson , who made a quiet yet effective impact in the 2–0 midweek World Cup defeat of Latvia has been around in the game with spells at Derby County , Ipswich , Chelsea and his present club where he is happy but would consider a move to a higher grade of football if possible . |
| 6 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 7 | All I have ever known of love has been here in this house . |
| 8 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 9 | The engagement with Marxism has been largely through contact with structuralist traditions and in particular with the work of Althusser as mediated through Castells ( 1977 ) . |
| 10 | MORE than one in five of the 2,329 young people seeking jobs and training in Hampshire have been out of work for more than six months . |
| 11 | Already teams from GCHQ have been out to America to be trained in the use of the new equipment . |
| 12 | On the one hand , ethnic minorities currently settled in Britain have been here for a relatively short period of time , and it seems that circumstances of migration and initial settlement are conditions under which support between siblings assumes greater significance than it might otherwise do — a point illustrated by the patterns of chain migration and of joint households which I discussed earlier in this chapter . |
| 13 | Absenteeism and lack of reverence in church had been far from unknown before the Reformation ; indeed such charges were the most frequent cause of appearances before the Suffolk ecclesiastical courts in the fifteenth century . |
| 14 | New developments in filtration have been mainly in the direction of improving performance and lengthening the times between backwashing . |
| 15 | Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time . |
| 16 | The mill has been I do n't ken how long there 's been a mill on the site there but the mill as it stands at present 's been there from eighteen sixty . |
| 17 | However , the Prime Minister , Petre Roman , admitted that the miners at times had been out of control and had committed violence against innocent people , although he supported their mobilization to aid the government . |
| 18 | The cheap attempt at humour had been too like a treacherous repudiation of Timmy whom he loved . |