Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche has been in England since 1975 and most ordained people take either Kelsang or Gyatso in their names . |
| 2 | Timex has been in Dundee for 47 years . |
| 3 | The RAF has been at Abingdon since 1932 . |
| 4 | Pakistan has been in upheaval since May 26th , when the Supreme Court overturned President Ishaq 's dismissal of the government and gave Mr Sharif his job back . |
| 5 | Since her trial a year ago , which led to a six-year jail sentence , Winnie Mandela has been at liberty on bail , pending an appeal . |
| 6 | From an early age Haflor Ferdinandson has been in love with 4WD vehicles . |
| 7 | In spite of the fact that the Carews had been in Ireland since the middle of the seventeenth century , he still regarded himself as an expatriate living among a semi-barbarous people in a semi-barbarous land . |
| 8 | The PDC had been in opposition since leaving Endara 's government in April 1991 ; Arias had remained in the constitutional post of First Vice-President without attending Cabinet meetings . |
| 9 | The government were not reassured to learn that Branson had been in consultation with Robert Beckman , the New York lawyer who was fighting the anti-trust action on Laker 's behalf . |
| 10 | Mr Trelawney had been to sea before and knew enough to be useful , and one of the men , Israel Hands , was a careful and experienced seaman who was able to help with almost anything . |
| 11 | Miloš knew that Karadjordje had been in contact with the representatives of the Greek nationalist organisation Philike Hetairia ( Society of Friends ) , which was planning a general rising of all the sultan 's Christian subjects . |
| 12 | In the old days , he and his brother Josh had been in charge of the Punishment Squad . |
| 13 | He seemed to be suggesting that once Balbinder had been at Cedars for a while , he might be capable of re-entering mainstream education at middle school transfer . |
| 14 | We learn that Sister Chiang has been in prison for 3 weeks , but has not revealed a word about the guerrillas , in spite of torture . |
| 15 | Bob Hoskins ' co-star Dennis Hopper has been at loggerheads with Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton , demanding script rewrites . |
| 16 | But now Ellen the time I have long awaited has come and I write to tell you that an Italian maidservant by name of Gigia who is travelling home to Florence having been in Scotland with a family who are friends of the Brownings is to come to you to collect Oreste and take him to Liverpool where she will be joined by Mr Ogilvy and from whence they will sail for Italy . |
| 17 | Ireland had been in rebellion for eight years . |
| 18 | Ash had been in London for a programming interview with some big insurance company and had offered me a lift back home , or to Gallanach anyway , as I 'd exiled myself from Lochgair . |
| 19 | A customs officer involved in the case said Mr Bradburn had been under surveillance for weeks when he was arrested . |
| 20 | Hugh had been with NLS for some nine years but unfortunately developed a heart condition which left him unable to drive at work . |
| 21 | Dexter , 57 , was the first chairman to be paid when he took over in March 1989 after Peter May had been in charge for seven years . |
| 22 | In a national address on television on March 4 , Aylwin rejected the claims of Pinochet and his supporters that Chile had been in state of civil war and that human rights violations were an inevitable cost . |
| 23 | Detective Chief Inspector John Leicester Finch and Detective Constable Robert Turner had been on trial for eighteen days at Luton Crown Court . |
| 24 | Kayley had been under observation by Nurse Motley and Beverley Allitt , 24 , who denies murdering four child patients and attempting to murder nine others , including Kayley , at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in Lincolnshire in 1991 . |
| 25 | His father wrote a regular monthly letter and , after Frank had been at Rowden for two years , one of the letters told him that his grandmother Blanche Arbuthnot had died , and left him all her money and her house in Meath . |
| 26 | She 's in April , she and Anthony had been to Florence for four days . |
| 27 | Albert Sandison had been in Naples for three weeks and he was beginning to forget why he had come . |
| 28 | He used the occasion to inform the public that his decision to withdraw from the campaign in July had been in response to a Republican dirty tricks campaign which had included a plan to smear his daughter through manufactured photographs and to disrupt her forthcoming wedding . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , strike partner While there has been no doubting the high regard Beardsley is held in around Everton , many had begun to question Mo Johnston , whose future at Goodison had been in doubt after two months in the cold , looks to have earned a temporary reprieve following his equaliser against Liverpool . |
| 30 | Maldom Bada had been under arrest since the alleged coup attempt of October 1991 [ see p. 38519 ] and his inclusion therefore signified his political rehabilitation . |