Example sentences of "[conj] have been [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 4 Phrases and words In Rex Stewart etc. v Parker [ 1988 ] IRLR 483 the court was asked to consider a non-solicitation clause which related to any person " … who to your knowledge is or has been during the period of your employment a customer of the company … |
| 2 | She tended to do it of late years by proxy , as it were : she was good — or had been before the advent of the Reverend Hereward Marr — at manning the tea-urn at the church social . |
| 3 | Or had been in the right . |
| 4 | ‘ There is a need for fish that has been on the market a couple of days . |
| 5 | He much prefers to drive something that has been on the market for two or three years , reasoning that most of the initial problems should have been ironed out . |
| 6 | SongWright 5.1 is the latest version of a package that has been on the market for several years . |
| 7 | Equality of opportunity — the idea that everybody should have a fair chance of doing themselves justice — is a notion that has been at the basis of public provision of education and indeed of much educational charity for a long time indeed . |
| 8 | She said I do n't know what your there 's a missing , so I it said Mr G , so dad said why does it say Mr and er , she said it 's a court order she said , court order , she said er that has been in the yard |
| 9 | As a general rule , it is sensible to select a large , well-known company that has been in the market for a long time . |
| 10 | raises yet again a problem that has been before the Court of Appeal on a number of occasions over the past 10 years or so . |
| 11 | In spelling out its arguments for the proposed pattern , the Council was once again reinterpreting the balance that had been at the centre of its concerns from the beginning : there was nothing in the Charter and Statutes ‘ which prevented greater recognition from being given to an institution 's own internal procedures where these could be shown to be rigorous and effective . |
| 12 | Only then did it strike me that there was indeed a role that a further staff member could crucially play here ; that it was , in fact , this very shortage that had been at the heart of all my recent troubles . |
| 13 | First of all , there was the problem that had been at the root of France 's defeat in 1940 — the decay of the republican state , which had been so powerfully symbolized by the Third Republic 's abdication to Pétain in July 1940 . |
| 14 | Marie , sick and trembling , overwhelmed with fear and guilt at her own actions , was already kneeling down with a dustpan and brush , sweeping up the broken glass from the tomato-sauce bottle that had been on the table . |
| 15 | He went into his bedroom , returned almost at once with the oil-lamp that had been on the table when we had dinner . |
| 16 | During the same month the Young Republicans barricaded themselves into a house in Harvey Street to resist the eviction of a family that had been on the housing list for eighteen years . |
| 17 | The were taken by limousine through the streets of Manhattan , observing with awe the eight magnificent structures that had been on the market for many months and which no one had wanted to buy . |
| 18 | But , when asked in 1947 to replace an old dirty power station that had been on the site since 1891 , he soon forgot such idealism and , like any architect , was glad to have the job . |
| 19 | But now he was n't making excuses , stating facts that had been under the surface all the time . |
| 20 | On one of the trials , Ray placed a popsock over the end of a pipe delivering water that had been through an Eradicator and , in 72 hours , collected a golf ball-sized piece of limescale from the mesh … in East Anglia , the water is so hard that it will give a kettle an internal fur coat in no time , and here was the proof . |
| 21 | that had been through the fire and they were taken out and you know whoever . |
| 22 | You would n't want one that had been in a smash anyway , it could |
| 23 | Only once had I feared the heat of Egypt and that had been in a waking dream . |
| 24 | By the time the light was on , where was the man that had been in the bed ? |
| 25 | But then she start putting my erm blouses on like , cos she probably seen somebody come in nice thinking oh dress up tomorrow and then I , in case he comes in and I used to think shit that had been in the wardrobe , alright I do n't wear them but I mean they 're still nice |
| 26 | Nigel went along on his own with a nice little pair of mother-of-pearl binoculars that had been in the family for generations . |
| 27 | He pulled the woollen cap that had been in the pocket of his overalls further down over his close-cut hair . |
| 28 | Scott LJ ( with whom Butler-Sloss and Purchas LJJ agreed ) said that the appeal raised a question that had been before the court on a number of occasions in the past 10 years . |
| 29 | Now , once again , the topic was timely as a substantial area of policy that had been within the ambit of the Royal Commission , but one which had not been pre-empted by Government intentions for legislation . |
| 30 | Erm certainly there are other er comments and statements that have been through the year which er should and has caused us to look at our procedures and to erm make changes where that is appropriate and I would hope that er we would continue to do so . |