Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [be] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Harrington brothers had been feed by Warwick , and their father had been feed by Salisbury . |
| 2 | The Harrington brothers had been feed by Warwick , and their father had been feed by Salisbury . |
| 3 | The Prussians had been allies of Britain at Waterloo , and preindustrial , Biedermeier , Germany was very attractive to many Britons . |
| 4 | If other readers have been victims of con tricks why not pass on a warning to others through our Letters Page ? |
| 5 | Typical potential savings have been 5% on debtor levels , 2% on energy costs and 25% on payroll preparation . |
| 6 | In the past such animals have been models of cleanliness , always asking to go outside before defecating , or confining themselves to a modern litter tray . |
| 7 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the problem faced by the United Nations in recent decades has been entanglement in east-west confrontation and that at this stage of its development it does not need to embark on an extremely controversial and difficult period of structural reform but should make greater use not only of the United Nations charter but of the existing United Nations machinery ? |
| 8 | The mineralogical modification of the clays has been montmorillonite to illite , kaolinite to illite below about 3000 m , and illite to sericite and chlorite at greater depths . |
| 9 | Petite Forlarty which is a castle in the middle , just on the outskirts of Florence er and e for some reason I mean the c the Italians have been colourists for yonks . |
| 10 | Consequently the basic concepts have been division of labour , organisational structure , job descriptions , but above all — hierarchy . |
| 11 | Our families have been friends for years . ’ |
| 12 | These are almost always the same men , the ones who own the guns and the best-trained dogs , whose families have been hunters for years , passing their knowledge and experience down through the generations until it 's almost in the blood . |
| 13 | Its most obvious difficulties have been lack of scale and disappointing growth . |
| 14 | The increased output achieved on assisted farms has been 14% in cattle numbers and 27% in sheep numbers(23) . |
| 15 | ‘ Registrations are running about 300 up on last year ; average prices have been £300 to £500 up on the previous year ; and our commercial customers have been taking top prices for finished Limousin crosses at markets through the UK . |
| 16 | Secondly the deliveries of the equipment from the equipment suppliers who had been selected er generally fell behind the promises which they had made , so the main reason for the technical delays has been lack of equipment of the correct standard to proceed with the integration programme erm the erm the problems which beset the programme in nineteen ninety two after the German minister started questioning its future clearly had a direct bearing on that because many of the equipment suppliers , particularly those in Germany , suddenly began to think hey this programme is not going anywhere , why should we invest a lot of effort and and money into it and they slowed down so that has had a knock on effect in in terms of delaying the total programme and erm the result of all of that has been that the current development programme schedule which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running . |
| 17 | Mr Palumbo said he was delighted with the decision , and that the cost of delays has been £1million per day . |
| 18 | For the East Germans the Poles had been objects of contempt for most of Prussian history , and the loss of land to them was an insult that was not to be swallowed , but would instead produce a festering sense of indignity , shame and anger . |
| 19 | His ancestors had been MPs for Liverpool on and off since 1307 , and his father served in the Parliament of 1625 , besides being sheriff of Lancashire in 1620 . |
| 20 | A jury swore in 1266 that John son of Nigel and his ancestors had been foresters of fee of Bernwood Forest ‘ from the Conquest of England ’ : another jury declared that the ancestors of William son of Adam had been granted the manor of Hutton-in-the Forest by Henry I , to hold by the serjeanty of keeping the bailiwick of Plumpton in Inglewood Forest . |
| 21 | And given that humans have been predators of prairie dogs for at least 150 years , the researchers argue that they are perfectly legitimate to use in such a test . |
| 22 | The Merseyside Crime Survey found , for example , that 44 per cent of interviewees had been victims of crime in the last twelve months , and a quarter had been victimized twice or more . |
| 23 | In a famous essay , H. J. Laski recorded that between 1832 and 1906 , out of 139 judges appointed , 80 were Members of the House of Commons at the time of their nomination and 11 others had been candidates for Parliament ; that , of the 80 , 63 were appointed by their own party while in office ; and 33 of them had been either Attorney-General or Solicitor-General . |
| 24 | One factor inhibiting the spread of written documents had been fear of forgery . |
| 25 | The better ones have been amalgamations of Gibson and Fender features with the Paul Reed Smith topping the heap . |
| 26 | Local authorities have been subject of budget cuts , rate cutting and unfortunately redundancies over the last dozen years or more . |
| 27 | These houses have been homes to squattors for the past 4 years . |
| 28 | It is hard to escape the feeling that this proven hazard would not have been allowed to continue , poisoning children and adults , if the victims had been residents of Weybridge or Sloane Square rather than the Gorbals . |
| 29 | Among the civilian victims have been members of peasant communities and rural cooperatives who refused to join or support Sendero Luminoso . |