Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [be] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second major contextual change has been shifts in government policy , operating in the context of large scale youth unemployment . |
| 2 | For more than forty years American football has been symbol of patriotism at the Upper Heyford airbase . |
| 3 | Hammer has been Director of Miller Nordenhake , the Cologne amalgam of Burnet Miller of Los Angeles and Galerie Nordenhake of Stockholm since April 1991 . |
| 4 | Whereas Guy had only arrived in the Middle East in 1180 and at the time of his defeat had been King of Jerusalem for less than a year , Saladin had ruled Egypt since 1169 and Syria since 1176 . |
| 5 | ‘ What a pleasure it has been , and an honour to have been MP for Winchester for 13 years , ’ he said , thanking those who had supported him in the past year . |
| 6 | Before Rope Thrower subdued the Great Chief Manuelito — among whose lieutenants was Hawk 's many-times-great grandfather Armijo — the Navaho had been herders of horses and cattle , cultivators of corn , pumpkins , wheat and melons and famous for their groves of peach trees . |
| 7 | Gore , who had made an impressive if unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 , was the product of a patrician southern family , his father having been Senator for Tennessee . |
| 8 | Volume of total gastric juice in basal and under pentagastrin infusion was calculated as the sum of four 15 minute samples in each period ( Table ) and the hourly output of each substance ( platelet activating factor : pg/hr ; lyso platelet activating factor : µg/hr ; AAGPC : µg/hr ; acid : mmol/hr ; pepsin : pepsin unit UP/hr ; NANA : µg/hr ; choline : µg/hr ) was calculated as the sum of four 15 minute rates of secretion ; each 15 minute rate having been determiend by multiplication of concentration by the volume of gastric juice aspirated during 15 minutes . |
| 9 | The Harrington brothers had been feed by Warwick , and their father had been feed by Salisbury . |
| 10 | The Harrington brothers had been feed by Warwick , and their father had been feed by Salisbury . |
| 11 | She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years . |
| 12 | Also at this scale has been research on precipitation areas which has shown that the vertical air motion responsible and the areas themselves are organized into a hierarchy according to the horizontal size . |
| 13 | Now , that is something , that one would find difficult to accept normally , erm , but seeing as our Councillor has been chair of transportation , I believe in the past and also leader of the County Council , that then it it does make one wonder about erm , bud bud budgeting and raising expectations of people around the county unnecessarily . |
| 14 | Dixie 's free-taking and Jim 's pace have been features of Maghery 's progress to date but the Lough shore men know that Clans represent a massive hurdle . |
| 15 | But the main items of most concern have been grants for surface cultivation ( ploughing and rotovation ) , drainage and fertilisers , whether paid under Development Plans or as one-off capital aids ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 16 | Mr Heseltine who 's a millionaire has been MP for Henley since 1974 . |
| 17 | Most of the transmission had been pictures of malai soldiers back home in malai-land , strumming guitars in their uniforms , singing with their arms round each other , carrying kids , helping old ladies . |
| 18 | The Irish Industry Minister , Des O'Malley , stressed that a key factor in winning the project had been availability of computer scientists . |
| 19 | Measures which other researchers have described as corresponding to subjective risk have been changes in heart rate or GSR and subjective estimates of the chances of being involved in a near miss ( Watts & Quimby , 1980 ) . |
| 20 | The main problem has been lack of support , both in attendance and especially help . |
| 21 | Most recently to date have been experiments on ammonia gas resonantly pumped by CO2 lasers , in which good modulation , and chaos , have been observed in a system which comes close to Ikeda 's original proposal { 18 , 19 } . |
| 22 | Although this policy may have been viewed as a ‘ reasonable ’ intervention in the free market for private housing , there might in any case have been problems of enforcement of restrictions on resale . |
| 23 | This year it could well be the turn of the talented nine year old whose main target has been glory at Aintree . |
| 24 | The gun had been handbuilt by Holland & Holland of London , perfectly balanced and beautifully engraved . |
| 25 | The case aroused public disquiet as demonstrating that Evans 's conviction and execution had been miscarriages of justice ; there were two inquiries , and after the second Evans was granted a posthumous free pardon . |
| 26 | In his autobiography he claimed that the family had been farmers at Long Eaton , Derbyshire , since the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | , Peter ( 1806–1883 ) , industrial chemist and alum manufacturer , was born 19 February 1806 in Brechin , Forfarshire , Scotland , the son of a hand-loom weaver of Brechin , and his wife , whose family had been farmers for generations . |
| 28 | The Churchward family had been squires of Stoke Gabriel from the end of the fifteenth century . |
| 29 | His family had been landowners in Wales and Shropshire . |
| 30 | The weather had been kind for Boz 's wedding but it was less so for Tom and Dolly . |