Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , we have hardly mentioned many conventional accompanimental ideas which have been used thousands of times and have been invaluable in their time . |
| 2 | His social and economic situation continues to be regulated by the kind of disciplines that have been familiar to successive generations of workers on the land — ; poverty , the lack of alternative employment opportunities , the intense localism , the dependency for jobs and housing on local farmers . |
| 3 | He built his shed which , made as it was of old floorboards from a couple of hovels that had been empty for years , resembled a shack . |
| 4 | In practice , however , progression has been difficult to achieve , and the rites of passage that have been such a feature of our educational organisation — at 11 plus , at the options stage at 14 , and again at 16 — have compounded the problem . |
| 5 | Despite all of these changes , the leaders of the change effort consciously supported and maintained those values and ways of work that had been productive in the past , such as joint consultation with the unions . |
| 6 | Catholic Caring Services is an approved adoption agency for the Diocese of Lancaster and has been involved in this work for 60 years . |
| 7 | The finalists of the 1981/82 and 1982/83 Competitions for the Prince of Wales Award for Industrial Innovation and Production provide a self-selected sample of firms that have been successful in innovation , ie in developing commercially viable new products . |
| 8 | It was characterized by a determined display of party unity , although this was tempered with a greater degree of realism than had been apparent in 1988 . |
| 9 | The efforts of Anthony Thompson and his friends , including contingents of willing helpers provided by the St Bede 's Link with Romania , have gone a long way towards enabling Lotsi to achieve his goal and the project has now reached the stage where it will benefit from a greater degree of organisation than has been necessary so far . |
| 10 | Mosley himself admired Lloyd George 's qualities of leadership and had been impressed by his energy and administrative skills at the Ministry of Munitions from 1915 to 1916 . |
| 11 | Jonathon is a graduate of the Northern College of Music and has been professional as a viola and violin player for 6 years . |
| 12 | Avoiding the copyright-protected names of bears that have been British National newspaper features for decades was quite easy for innovative owners of the new skydiving brood . |
| 13 | Section 11 of the Act authorises police officers to arrest anyone they suspect of being or having been involved in terrorist activity . |
| 14 | The threatening cloud of gloom that had been pea-sized when they 'd set out for Host Street grew to storm proportions . |
| 15 | I have omitted , with reluctance , references to a few natural features of interest that have been subject to abuse of privilege by a minority of visitors . |
| 16 | Parliament has thus recognised the unsatisfactory results of the common law privilege against self-incrimination and has been willing to abrogate or modify that privilege . |
| 17 | He had enjoyed a trial with Middlesbrough and had been impressed by the set-up . |
| 18 | We shall continue to put pressure on local authorities with stock that has been empty for more than a year . |
| 19 | In proposing hypotheses , people are guided by knowledge of past failures , by analogies with theories that have been successful in handling related subject matters ; Peirce 's ‘ affinity ’ between mind and nature is an allusion to something which is required to explain the speed of the growth of knowledge ; and testing theories is an intentional activity which appeals to general cognitive aims — to describe reality , anticipate experience , solve problems , produce elegant and simple formalisms , etc . |
| 20 | When applicable , these two sources of law provided shippers with benefits that had been unavailable under the Harter Act . |
| 21 | The trend towards equality of attainment is especially marked in schools that have been comprehensive for a long time . |
| 22 | of the directors of the company must be nationals of that member state ; ( b ) that the said legal owners and beneficial owners , charterers , managers , operators , shareholders and directors , as the case may be , must be resident and domiciled in that member state ; ( c ) that the vessel in question must be managed and its operations directed and controlled from within that member state ? ( ii ) Is the answer to question ( i ) above different where the power exists to dispense with the nationality requirement in respect of an individual in view of the length of time such individual has resided in the member state in question and has been involved in the fishing industry of that member state ? |
| 23 | His wood comes from forest that 's been coppiced . |
| 24 | Fatigue fractures , by their very nature , are more prevalent in structures that have been subject to stress over a long period of time . |
| 25 | The high-ups at Drury Lane are anxious to send whole companies — actresses as well as actors — in plays that have been popular London successes . ’ |
| 26 | For the past two years he has run Colnaghi 's representative office in Paris and has been responsible for business development in Europe , Japan and South America . |
| 27 | Only nineteen MPs were heirs to peerages and of these seven were from families that had been Liberal before 1886 and another five were new creations since then ; thirty-eight MPs were related to peers by blood and another forty by marriage . |
| 28 | Bill Mays was born and raised in California but has been resident in New York since the mid-1980s . |
| 29 | ( Sir ) Arthur Conan Doyle [ q.v. ] was a medical student in Edinburgh and had been impressed if not inspired by Dr Bell 's professional appearance — ‘ a tall , stately , kindly man , keen eyes and aquiline features contributing to his air of intent investigation . |
| 30 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |