Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been at [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last five years , plans for a road linking Spain and France have gone ahead , a ski resort has been built and the environment ministry has been at odds with local politicians over their attempts to implement hunting and traffic in areas thought crucial to the bear 's survival . |
| 2 | This process has been at work since the Industrial Revolution . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Khmer Rouge has been at war with the official Government since 1979 . |
| 5 | The pupil had been at Magdalen for a year , and then left to join the Army . |
| 6 | Albert and his young assistant had been at loggerheads for years now . |
| 7 | The contributors follow the modern theory that Christians need to discover the areas in which the Holy Spirit has been at work in heathen faiths . |
| 8 | It does not mean that the Holy Spirit can not work on men of other faiths and draw their inner longings to Christ.John Taylor , in The Go-Between God , says rightly , ‘ The eternal Spirit has been at world in all ages and all cultures making men aware and evoking their response , and always the one to whom he was pointing and bearing witness was the Logos , the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The ship has been at Rosyth for some weeks and work should have started on 1 March . |
| 11 | Laing has never felt that being a compassionate employer has been at odds with doing the right thing commercially . |
| 12 | 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 . |