Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] have be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's initial position of support for Cramra had been to all intents and purposes relinquished by the end of the meeting . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , strike partner While there has been no doubting the high regard Beardsley is held in around Everton , many had begun to question Mo Johnston , whose future at Goodison had been in doubt after two months in the cold , looks to have earned a temporary reprieve following his equaliser against Liverpool . |
| 3 | The junior leader training at the Army Apprentice College at Harrogate had been on weekend leave and was due back at 11pm on Sunday . |
| 4 | The project build on considerable experience of applied GIS : the School of Geography at the University of Leeds has been at the forefront of international developments in applied geographical modelling and through GMAP ( Geographical Modelling and Planning ) Ltd. is now applying its unique state of the art approach in many varied business and planning environments . |
| 5 | As lack of resources has been a perennial problem since the beginning the boost given to the financial status of the BDA by the patronage of The Princess of Wales has been of incalculable value . |
| 6 | He used the occasion to inform the public that his decision to withdraw from the campaign in July had been in response to a Republican dirty tricks campaign which had included a plan to smear his daughter through manufactured photographs and to disrupt her forthcoming wedding . |
| 7 | Paul Gascoigne 's career and his hugely expensive transfer to Lazio had been in doubt ever since his disastrous knee injury in last year 's FA Cup Final , but the night club fracas which brought about a further fracture made a successful recovery look still less likely . |
| 8 | The idea of a move into Europe has been under consideration since at least 1989 , the year when Darty was first approached by Kingfisher . |
| 9 | Recycling of paper and cardboard in Europe has been on the increase since 1989 . |
| 10 | They said that an AI group from Austria had been in touch with them with help and support , and that people from all over the world were pressing for his release . |
| 11 | In Japan , the role of MITI has been of particular importance in vertically co-ordinating enterprises in the achievement of longer-term , macro-economic , industry-wide planning ( Dore , 1986 ) . |
| 12 | The opposition MPs who opposed the Government move claimed that only one small bookmaker in Edinburgh had been in favour of late opening . |
| 13 | Not only that but Bates , in a period when the game in Britain has been at its lowest ebb , has won 16 of his 27 singles , 10 out of 17 in live rubbers , and 6 of his 11 doubles . |
| 14 | The Carrock Fell mine in Cumbria has been in intermittent , small-scale production since 1901 . |
| 15 | Climate Changer is an intriguing choice , since its business to date has been developing applications for the air-conditioning industry — its previous link to OCT had been as a large user of the machines . |
| 16 | Reed Canoes & Camping of Cambridge have been amongst the retailers having a difficult time of late . |
| 17 | Silver Buck , now eleven , had won four of his five races during the 1982–3 season but had been beaten in the King George by Wayward Lad , who had not run since and whose participation at Cheltenham had been in doubt until a searching gallop had proved his readiness . |
| 18 | Until the early 1980s , unemployment in Sheffield had been below the national average for the whole of the post-war period . |
| 19 | The local press in Dyfed have been in no doubt that the bank were to blame to ruining a business of the type desperately needed in the area . |
| 20 | The Judaization of Jerusalem had been under way since the Israelis occupied the whole city in 1967 , but this was the first occasion on which Jews had moved into the Christian Quarter . |
| 21 | Since 1909 the House of Lords has been under attack , and whilst one objection which has been taken has been to the undemocratic nature of the House , that is not the whole story . |
| 22 | His first impression of Galvone had been of a mobster , but Newman had met other reasonably honest Americans holding high positions who had made the same initial impression . |
| 23 | There had been heated argument in the Supreme Soviet about the method of electing a President , and for over a week members of the opposition Democratic Party of Tadjikistan had been on hunger strike in support of popular elections . |
| 24 | The most recent public execution in Albania had been in 1986 . |
| 25 | After last year 's franchise battle and now this takeover most of the interest in ITV has been behind the scenes , not on the screens . |
| 26 | My visit to Harrogate had been to gee me on . |
| 27 | Dragging him away from the house at Harlaching had been like drawing teeth , and on the drive to the airfield he had stopped the car to pick wild flowers , in the name of God ! |
| 28 | Most of the new employment creation around York has been in the northern sector , not in the southern sector . |