Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in Wigston , few of the families that put down roots in the parish of Myddle during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had been there in earlier times ; the turnover of names between the 1370s poll tax returns and the subsidies levied in the reign of Henry VIII was equally remarkable in both parishes . |
| 2 | He linked the freedom of the foreign-owned press in Africa to the general principle of press freedom , but remarked that its effects had been far from encouraging : the press had done things that he personally was very unhappy about . |
| 3 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 4 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 5 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 6 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 7 | The Americans have been here since 1950 . |
| 8 | ‘ The pits are so dramatic , and there 's so many of them , that we feel someone would have noticed if the whales had been there in such numbers in previous years . ’ |
| 9 | Ever since 1983 the general mood in the territories had been consistently against Jordanian representation of the Palestinians , even as part of a joint team . |
| 10 | Four of the committee members are from developing countries , and the experience of several of the others has been mostly in these countries . |
| 11 | Those papers have been there for more than a century . |
| 12 | Seismic operations have been underway since late 1990 with more than 4,000 km recorded so far . |
| 13 | The Jordanians are doing a magnificent job , keeping , keeping the show going erm people in those camps in many cases have been there for 4,5 or 7 days . |
| 14 | 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 . |