Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] have been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This original small port and fishing village had been down on the marshes adjoining the Rother , not far from Rye , and given to Fécamp Abbey by Cnut . |
| 2 | And as the boat station had been there before nineteen sixty six , probably a hundred years before nineteen sixty six , it was then claimed that this person had adverse possession , which in short , is squatter 's rights . |
| 3 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 4 | As Labov and Sankoff point out ( 1980 : xi ) , the emphasis in recent years arising naturally from the maturing of sociolinguistics as a research area has been less on purely methodological concerns such as measurement techniques and the presentation of correlational relationships between linguistic and social structure . |
| 5 | ‘ Since its launch in 1989 , Drayton Asia 's investment performance has been significantly below that of Dragon , ’ the letter stated . |
| 6 | The night of Mandy Kelly 's murder George had been out on one of his walks . |
| 7 | The landmark structure has been out of action for two years but is now expected to be back in service in July . |
| 8 | The doorstep talk has been mostly of the economy ; Willesden County Court , has dealt with the second highest number of repossessions in the country . |
| 9 | ‘ There are many instances where UK investment and product costs have been up to twenty per cent below other European countries , but the investment has still been located on the continent because of unfair political pressures and highly discriminatory practices , ’ he added to gasps of pained surprise . |
| 10 | The British people have not been allowed to express their views through a referendum , although the trend in opinion as measured by opinion polls has been firmly against a Federalist structure . |
| 11 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 12 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 13 | Consequently , he ruled , the Education Ministry had been perfectly within its rights to ban the book . |
| 14 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 15 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 16 | Whatever the outcome , CRII-RAD are highly critical of CEA in the affair and say that the official CEA figures have been well below the real plutonium levels at the site . |
| 17 | That morning Sara had been up with the dawn to walk for the last time in the castle grounds to say goodbye to her doves , her servants , her horses and her hounds , the last of which seemed to sense what was happening and started howling as soon as she had departed . |
| 18 | Like Doreen had always been putting the food on the table , like the old dog Oswald had been there for as long as they could recall . |
| 19 | He was sure they knew something , some trick that that idle , rascally District Chief had been up to . |
| 20 | The TUC General Council made history by failing to urge members to vote Labour , and a march in Birmingham yesterday headed by Bill Jordan , president of the AEU , and Mr Lyons was one of the rare occasions when trade union support has been out in force on the streets . |
| 21 | Despite differences of emphasis between different unions , union policies have been overwhelmingly in favour of technological change , while at the same time seeking increased involvement in the process of change to " maximise the benefits and minimise the costs " of such changes . |
| 22 | Many of Rosemary Cook 's respondents in the Rhondda , who had given birth to children during the inter-war years , said that birth control had been out of the question despite the fact that the birth rate for the Rhondda fell dramatically during the inter-war period . |
| 23 | He noticed that when local church leaders had been away for Bible School training , they ceased to tell stories in their preaching . |
| 24 | Some exercises they perform sitting on chairs or using them for support , but floor exercises have been out of the question . |
| 25 | Road pricing has been up for discussion for some time as a possible way of alleviating the high levels of traffic congestion in many city centres . |
| 26 | Exactly one week after the IRA firebombed a shopping centre police have been back to the scene looking for possible witnesses . |
| 27 | The cricket pitch has been there for thirty five years . |
| 28 | Approaches to hydrological model building have been either via physical hydrology , which is the investigation of the components of the hydrological cycle to achieve a full understanding of the mechanisms and interactions involved , or by systems synthesis investigations , which attempted a complete simulation of drainage basin operation by adjusting the components and the parameters of the model until outputs from the model agreed with empirical results from known inputs . |
| 29 | Pension funds have been around for a century or more , but their modern form was set in 1950 when Charles Wilson , then president of General Motors , set up a fund for his workers . |
| 30 | Talking of exotic locations , our lucky fashion department have been off to colourful Morocco , to see how they got on turn to page 37 . |