Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun prp] have be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kim 's parents from Oxfordshire have been in court to hear three days of evidence . |
| 2 | Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work . |
| 3 | Dire though the attacks on Belfast have been during the past two months , it is a sign of just how successful economic development has been that the IRA should have felt it necessary to retaliate in the way that it has . |
| 4 | Some of the very earliest composing machines in Britain had been in use in Edinburgh in the 1860s . |
| 5 | The many part-time farmers in Germany had been under the same economic pressures as their counterparts in the UK in recent years . |
| 6 | For much of this century , the mines in Cornwall have been in the doldrums . |
| 7 | Shareholders in Unisys have been through so much misery , the fear that the IBM mainframe blight will soon infect the company is so great that no reasonable offer for the company is likely to be refused — and while the Unisys debt burden is now manageable , it is still onerous for a company of Unisys ' size , but AT&T 's credit remains almost as good as gold . |
| 8 | The man leading the hunt for the killer , Det Chief Insp Barry Hill , said forensic experts from Wetherby had been to the scene . |
| 9 | However , the Court did conclude that the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan had been in violation of international law . |
| 10 | In fact the earliest exports to Australia had been in 1820 but the breed did not become established for another 30 years . |
| 11 | Dozens of Maxwell pensioners from Oxfordshire have been at Westminster as part of a national lobby about their lost pensions . |
| 12 | " All men fought ; all men in England had been to India for the duration of the last war , leaving behind them a country of women . |
| 13 | Women in Cheltenham have been among the first to try out the NORPLANT contraceptive . |