Example sentences of "[noun sg] [art] [noun] have been [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In his first schoolboy poetry the theme had been of love withered and decayed — practically the last lines he ever wrote were of " the certainty of love unchanging " .
2 Both suggest that in the area of sexual morality the change has been towards less restraint , less control and more choice .
3 Throughout most of this period the focus has been on government records and then mainly at a national level , although in rare instances the issues have been addressed at a more local level .
4 The Corporation may cancel this Policy by sending seven days notice by registered letter to the Policyholder at his last known address and in such event will return to the Policyholder the premium less the pro rata portion thereof for the period the Policy has been in force or the Policy may be cancelled at any time by the Policyholder on seven days notice and ( provided no claim has arisen during the then current period of insurance ( subject to the relative International Motor Insurance Card ( Green Card ) being returned to the Corporation the Policyholder shall be entitled to a return of the premium less premium at the Corporations short period rates for the time the Policy has been in force calculated from the date upon which such Card is received by the Corporation .
5 But even on a cursory examination the doctor had been in no doubt .
6 This has become something of a cause célèbre in rock press folklore , but in truth the NME had been in worse scrapes before and no doubt has many more ahead .
7 I explained how by chance the Mantela had been in Sydney for a refit .
8 If one looks at the figures presented at Budget time for the previous financial year , for the financial year 1967/1968 , it is pretty clear in broad terms on what scale the process had been in operation .
9 On the other hand the path has been from empirical field investigations towards continental or global patterns and this may be one important direction which must continue to be followed because large-scale soil erosion as in China , large-scale deforestation as in the Amazon , atmospheric pollution or global climatic change inspired by changes of carbon dioxide are all contemporary environmental processes on a scale which has not attracted sufficient physical geographers .
10 In the English civil wars of the mid-thirteenth century the cavalry had been in command ; but fifty years later , things were beginning to change .
11 So far in this discussion the emphasis has been on the voluntary nature of the ‘ obligations ’ of the active citizen , which is to be encouraged through the educational system and in other ways about which , it must be said , there is fairly broad agreement across the political spectrum .
12 There was a lot of reluctance to take the action they have , at the same time the scheme has been in being since 1946 .
13 It is not the first time the council has been at the centre of a disagreement over charges for collection of waste .
14 And the National Rivers Authority has pledged to introduce 200,000 salmon a year for the next four years into the cleaned-up River Tees the first time the fish have been in the river in any numbers in the last 30 years .
15 The Corporation may cancel this Policy by sending seven days notice by registered letter to the Policyholder at his last known address and in such event will return to the Policyholder the premium less the pro rata portion thereof for the period the Policy has been in force or the Policy may be cancelled at any time by the Policyholder on seven days notice and ( provided no claim has arisen during the then current period of insurance ( subject to the relative International Motor Insurance Card ( Green Card ) being returned to the Corporation the Policyholder shall be entitled to a return of the premium less premium at the Corporations short period rates for the time the Policy has been in force calculated from the date upon which such Card is received by the Corporation .
16 The fact the player has been at Tamba Bay Rowdies , and has an agent , clouded my judgement . ’
17 Within the German Social Democratic Party the issue had been in dispute for some time .
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