Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] have be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For generations , ’ Benjamin 's voice rose , ‘ the lords of Templecombe have been members of the secret Templar organisation . ’ |
| 2 | The first was that , since the eleventh century , the kings of England had been lords of much of north-western France , an area extending from Normandy ( in the time of William the Conqueror ) through Maine , Anjou , Touraine , and Poitou to the duchy of Aquitaine which , a century later , Henry II had come to control through his marriage to the duchess , Eleanor , previously the wife of Louis VII of France . |
| 3 | However , the Bank of England has been party to the arrangements for placing gold and dollar reserves with the EMCF on a three-month temporary basis in exchange for ECUs . |
| 4 | The hamlet of Thornholme has been part of Burton Agnes parish since time immemorial . |
| 5 | By the time that Israel became part of the Roman empire , the idea was already widespread among the various religious sects that the ‘ End of the World ’ was at hand , although it was only for the Essenes of Qumran that this belief assumed a definite form ; that , whereas the First Judgement at the time of Noah had been destruction by water , the Last Judgement would be destruction by fire . |
| 6 | The traditional answer given as to the purpose of RE has been nurture within a particular faith . |
| 7 | The earlier duchy of Aquitaine had been part of the comté of Poitou , but the duchy of Gascony was an independent entity . |
| 8 | Surprisingly enough , the small island of Jersey has been host to about 5,000 Madeirans , many of them contract workers in the hotels for the season . |
| 9 | Jill Neville was , and is , a novelist , whose arrival in Britain had been part of an earlier 1960s Australian wave , more tied to bohemianism than to the music and the scene that sucked in Australians in the mid 1960s . |
| 10 | He said that family income in Wales had been 87pc of that in the IRC in 1976/77 , but had dropped to only 64pc by 1990/91 . |
| 11 | Torture of political detainees in Mauritania has been routine since 1986 , but it has never before been used on such a scale . |
| 12 | FOUR out of five shopkeepers in Dublin have been victims of crime , a new survey has revealed . |
| 13 | In February 1988 , says WG , Mr Carr told WG 's board that Alkar 's sales for the year to January had been £10.4m with a profit of £2.7m . |
| 14 | the impact of the Channel Tunnel on Wales has been subject of a recent House of Commons inquiry at which the Welsh Counties Committee argued that considerable benefits could accrue to the Principality if improved transport links with the Tunnel are provided . |