Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seismic operations have been underway since late 1990 with more than 4,000 km recorded so far . |
| 2 | For the last fortnight some prisoners have been here in person . |
| 3 | Such policies have been directly against the interests of disabled people , whose economic position and need for housing with particular physical characteristics mean that the private sector has little to offer . |
| 4 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 5 | After all , the leading ministers had been continuously in office for the past ten years , and had achieved many of their declared objectives . |
| 6 | The Jordanians are doing a magnificent job , keeping , keeping the show going erm people in those camps in many cases have been there for 4,5 or 7 days . |
| 7 | For instance , many firms have been perpetually on the brink of buying up a broker but brokers are often quick to deny it . |
| 8 | Those papers have been there for more than a century . |
| 9 | 50 officers are involved in the hunt for the man 's attackers ; scenes of crime and forensic experts have been here for most of the day . |
| 10 | English fans feel that the emphasis on fast bowling in the last fifteen years has been greatly to the game 's detriment , leading to the continuing decline of the spinner , a lack of variety , slow over rates , broken bones and a situation where batting is more about courage than skill . |
| 11 | As a result , the major dividing lines have been less between the craft and industrial unionism dimensions than between , on the one hand , secular and confessional ( generally Catholic ) unionism , and reform-oriented ( mainly socialist ) or revolutionary ( communist or syndicalist ) unionism on the other ( Windmüller , 1974 ) . |
| 12 | The marketing drive is their latest attempt to commercialise space and earn hard currency , Until now any deals have been largely through the Soviet Space Agency , Glvacosmos . |
| 13 | Since World War Two only four other Westerners have been here before you . " |
| 14 | This criticism is strengthened to some extent by the observation that much creative work in this genre in recent years has been precisely in the elaboration of dependent development in the countries of the semiperiphery . |
| 15 | Another witness of the charter to St Wandrille dated 1033 is King Henry I of France , who is known from other sources to have been briefly in exile with Robert at Fécamp , and according Edward the title " king of the English " would presumably have done Robert 's prestige no harm at all , as he would thus have been entertaining two exiled monarchs at the same time . |
| 16 | When the rest got back to the pageant carts , local Guildsmen had been there before them . |
| 17 | As in Wigston , few of the families that put down roots in the parish of Myddle during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had been there in earlier times ; the turnover of names between the 1370s poll tax returns and the subsidies levied in the reign of Henry VIII was equally remarkable in both parishes . |
| 18 | The question of royal finances had been particularly in the public eye following the confirmation by Peter Brooke , the National Heritage Secretary , on Nov. 23 that the government would meet the costs of restoration of substantial portions of Windsor Castle which had been partly destroyed by fire on Nov. 20 . |