Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [prep] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now in his third full season with the HB NSR , Bradl 's main change has been from Michelin to Dunlop tyres |
| 2 | The Brigade has been in Normandy since the 6th June in constant contact with the enemy until we reached the Seine . |
| 3 | His first action had been in Greece in late 1940 : ‘ We soon went to the border , and the Germans invaded from Bulgaria and Yugoslavia which they had romped through . |
| 4 | Now fantastic rumours started to circulate to the effect that the Virgin of Fatima might appear again — her last apparition had been in Portugal on 13 October 1927 . |
| 5 | The type has been in Ireland for at least 4,000 years , according to archaeological evidence , and it is within the same ancestral group as the White Park , the Welsh cattle and the old Scottish breeds , and also the European remnant breeds such as the Hérens of the Alps and the Camargue of southern France , to which the Kerry bears a noticeable likeness . |
| 6 | The original proposal had been for PR in the cities but this was opposed by Unionists who were concerned to protect the efficacy of the business vote ; Central Office also opposed the alternative vote when it was put forward in the debates , and the majority of Unionist MPs and the National Union never backed either system . |
| 7 | The business has been in Middlesborugh since 1936 . |
| 8 | The first meeting had been at York in 1831 ; thereafter the Association visited the university cities of Oxford , Cambridge , Edinburgh and Dublin , before in 1836 venturing to Bristol and subsequently to other large towns . |
| 9 | The elder has been in Normandy for four years now , Stephen can hardly count him as the staunch supporter he used to be . ’ |
| 10 | Manager Douglas Scott has considerable experience in catering having been with CCG for almost 10 years . |
| 11 | The pupil had been at Magdalen for a year , and then left to join the Army . |
| 12 | As part of the campaign , the Green 's Principal Speaker has been in Stroud in Gloucestershire , where the Greens have six local councillors . |
| 13 | Iran was now in a poor state in the war , and was about to be wiped out as the Russian Army had been at Tannenberg in 1914 : a disaster that had led to the rise of the Bolsheviks . |
| 14 | And why not ? — the British Army had been in Osnabrück since 1945 . |
| 15 | The ship has been at Rosyth for some weeks and work should have started on 1 March . |
| 16 | United are in the middle of the table — they need to win tomorrow but so too do Watford — their only win has been against Brentford in the coca cola cup |
| 17 | There have been many variants , but one of the most extensive and thorough applications of this principle has been at Bijlmermeer in south-east Amsterdam . |
| 18 | The breed has been in Britain since the eleventh century , when by William of Orange reputedly owner the first . |
| 19 | It is nonetheless likely that an export licence will be denied , to give a British institution the chance of raising the necessary matching funds to purchase the picture , as the Cook panel has been in England since 1863 ( in the Cook family since 1868 ) and as Messrs MacGregor and Rosenberg ( Director of the National Gallery and Curator of Paintings at the Louvre , respectively ) would agree , one can not have too many Antonellos . |
| 20 | A customer asked Sarah if her brother had been near Guernica in Spain when bombs were dropped on it from aeroplanes . |
| 21 | For every Palestinian who expressed doubts about the worth of returning , there were hundreds who would go back to what is now Israel if they had the opportunity to do so , people like David Damiani , a Christian whose family had been in Palestine since the time of the Crusades . |
| 22 | ‘ Mother 's been in Ireland since her first marriage . |
| 23 | ( It is interesting to note that the Jeffery family have been in Donhead for centuries as The Visitation of Wilts 1565 records that the first wife of Alderman Thomas Pople of Salisbury , was ‘ Katherine , daughter to John Jeffery of Doned Marie , Dorset ’ . ) |