Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seismic operations have been underway since late 1990 with more than 4,000 km recorded so far . |
| 2 | After all , the leading ministers had been continuously in office for the past ten years , and had achieved many of their declared objectives . |
| 3 | 50 officers are involved in the hunt for the man 's attackers ; scenes of crime and forensic experts have been here for most of the day . |
| 4 | As a result , the major dividing lines have been less between the craft and industrial unionism dimensions than between , on the one hand , secular and confessional ( generally Catholic ) unionism , and reform-oriented ( mainly socialist ) or revolutionary ( communist or syndicalist ) unionism on the other ( Windmüller , 1974 ) . |
| 5 | Since World War Two only four other Westerners have been here before you . " |
| 6 | This criticism is strengthened to some extent by the observation that much creative work in this genre in recent years has been precisely in the elaboration of dependent development in the countries of the semiperiphery . |
| 7 | Another witness of the charter to St Wandrille dated 1033 is King Henry I of France , who is known from other sources to have been briefly in exile with Robert at Fécamp , and according Edward the title " king of the English " would presumably have done Robert 's prestige no harm at all , as he would thus have been entertaining two exiled monarchs at the same time . |
| 8 | When the rest got back to the pageant carts , local Guildsmen had been there before them . |
| 9 | The question of royal finances had been particularly in the public eye following the confirmation by Peter Brooke , the National Heritage Secretary , on Nov. 23 that the government would meet the costs of restoration of substantial portions of Windsor Castle which had been partly destroyed by fire on Nov. 20 . |