Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun sg] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council economic development convener , George Hood , said yesterday that its commitment had been on the basis of the original development , which had never materialised . |
| 2 | Local opinion was outraged ; Price was brought to trial and would have been convicted by the jury if the judge had not insisted that his offence had been against morals and not against the law . |
| 3 | the burgeoning suspicion that his commitment has been in vain , must , as Anita Mason depicts , have been an appalling psychological torment . |
| 4 | A day later he claimed that he had been the victim of a dirty tricks campaign , saying that his house had been under surveillance and that a carefully organized smear campaign had been waged against him , apparently concerning loans alleged to have been made to his petfood company several years previously . |
| 5 | In almost the same moment Alexei recalled that his father had been at the same briefing . |
| 6 | She would go back to Sea House and tell Stephen that his father had been on a train at the time of his mother 's death . |
| 7 | Denis had had to reveal it when applying to join — they 'd have found out anyway that his father had been in the RIC . |
| 8 | He says that when he first learned that his father had been in prison he expected the crime to be something on a grand scale , something melodramatic , like murder , something novelistic , like ruining in bankruptcy thousands of trusting small investors , as the Town & County Bank had done in Cranford , or Mr. Frothingham in The Whirlpool or Ponderovo [ sic ] in Tono - Bungay . |
| 9 | As fast as he undid them I did them up again , so that when he got to my waist and sighed he recoiled with indignation and astonishment to find that his labour had been in vain . |
| 10 | The boy told us that his dog had been at the head of the pack from the start , biting the boar 's heels and almost bringing it down . |
| 11 | It is of great comfort to know that John had so many friends and that our family has been in the thoughts and prayers of so many people . |
| 12 | Although our prediction had been for around 100 validations , based on the transfer of old courses , we will actually be involved in closer to 320 validations . |
| 13 | We travel back and forth all the time between Canada and England , and my husband has been in nearly every country of the world on business . |
| 14 | Jim there 's a Despatches programme on Channel Four next week where some of the work that we 've done on B S E is fea featured and my colleague 's been through it as well . |
| 15 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |
| 16 | If my son had been on medication at the end of last year he would not have made an unprovoked attack on his father in November , nor attempted to share his New Year 's Eve lunch with the lions . |
| 17 | One of the main tasks of the SCAWD and its Secretary has been as an educational resource for conferences , congregations and local church groups , working mainly on international justice and peace issues and solidarity concerns . |
| 18 | Glycosylated haemoglobin is also a product of a nonenzymatic post-translational reaction , and its measurement has been of use in patients with diabetes mellitus as an indicator of the degree of hyperglycaemia during the preceding 8 weeks . |
| 19 | Well then her mother died last Feb. with some awful cancer and her daughter had been beside her when she died and probably learnt then about the secret which must have burdened her poor mother 's life for so many years . |
| 20 | She and her family had been in the States over a year now , and had moved from Boston to New York . |
| 21 | In view of the conclusion which their Lordships have reached , namely , that the defendant 's conviction should be quashed and that it must be for the Court of Appeal in Jamaica to say whether a new trial should be ordered , their Lordships consider that it is unnecessary , and indeed undesirable in the interests of justice , to examine the rival contentions and the facts to which they relate with the same particularity as their Lordships would have felt bound to do if their recommendation had been in favour of dismissing the appeal . |
| 22 | A customer asked Sarah if her brother had been near Guernica in Spain when bombs were dropped on it from aeroplanes . |
| 23 | Richard Lamb , managing director of SMP Playgrounds , is an expert when it comes to designing playgrounds and his company has been in the business for over 30 years . |
| 24 | If we do , we now have a model and can say that he and his family have been through it and have borne it with great fortitude , resilience and courage — as has been said , only through their deep religious faith — and that that has been a great lesson to us all . |
| 25 | We now have our own ducks and they have nested and hatched their eggs , and a male moorhen and his family have been in residence for a couple of years . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , ’ she agreed softly , and wondered if her mother and his father had been among them . |
| 27 | Mr Toghill has a degree in English Literature , and his career has been in PR and marketing , and latterly in careers work and the promotion of membership for the AAT . |
| 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 | If your cash has been in the same account for some time , make sure it has n't been closed to new customers . |
| 30 | You and your body have been through a lot of stressful experiences , both good and bad , and it could be as long as two weeks before you feel like doing anything except the most gently of runs . |