Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun prp] have be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 " Yes , " said Clara , beginning to understand the nature of her mother 's satisfaction ; the lack of telephone of Mrs Hanney had been for some years a subject for discourse in a vein of amazed contempt .
2 Considering how long the formation of Deacon Gray had been in the pipeline , the eventual timing might seem strange .
3 The work of Norman Shneidman has been of some value in highlighting the way in which sport in Soviet society is ‘ directed towards the all-round development of the human individual ’ ( 1979 , p.7 ) .
4 LM It is very easy in the kind of society Czechoslovakia has been in the past twenty years to lose a more general perspective on events .
5 Speaking in the wake of an 86-hour bombing blitz which is expected to run to almost £30m — nearly a third of the total compensation bill for the past 12 months — he conceded the people of Northern Ireland had been through ‘ a harsh time ’ .
6 Our experience generally in North Yorkshire 's been over the last ten years that overall , there have been exceptions , but generally overall , there 's not been a problem about local plans drying up and then allocations drying up over the period , generally .
7 Bruce Harris and the 200 strong team from Casa Alianza have been at the forefront in the fight to protect the street children of Guatemala .
8 What would happen , we asked , if new information in ten years ' time showed that the people working inside Hinkley C had been in even greater danger ?
9 For generations , printers in Fleet Street have been among the highest-paid industrial workers in Britain .
10 US Budweiser and the firm in Ceske Budejovice have been at loggerheads for almost a century , exchanging writs over the use of the Budweiser name .
11 Twenty one year old Wayne O'Hora , also from Ecton Brook had been in custody since the killing , but Northampton magistrates granted him conditional bail until next month .
12 It is noticeable that though Derrida is a philosopher , albeit one interested in literature , and has always worked in an academic-philosophical context , even if on the margins of the subject , his major impact in North America has been in literature departments .
13 While unemployment figures in Northern Ireland have been on the increase , they have not accelerated at anything like the rate in the usually prosperous south-east of England .
14 All this activity left little time for photography but , even after returning to the States to continue his work for the FSA , Delano never lost sight of the fact that his introduction to Puerto Rico had been through a camera .
15 The restrictions on imports from and exports to South Africa have been in place since 1985 .
16 The restrictions on imports from and exports to South Africa have been in place since 1985 .
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