Example sentences of "the [noun] have been [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | But already the decision has been given all party support in the House of Lords . |
| 2 | The sun 's been shining all week over Hereford : United are on a high , five goals against Colchester was the best news there 's been for years at Edgar Street . |
| 3 | Within hours of this US response , which Iraq 's ruling Revolution Command Council denounced as " disgraceful " , the Soviet Union tried to rescue its peace initiative by announcing that Aziz ( who was still in Moscow ) had agreed to a revised six-point peace plan whereby ( i ) Iraq would agree to comply with Resolution 660 ; ( ii ) withdrawal from Kuwait would begin the day after a ceasefire ; ( iii ) the withdrawal would be completed within 21 days , including withdrawal from Kuwait City within four days ; ( iv ) once the withdrawal had been completed all relevant UN Security Council resolutions would lapse ; ( v ) all prisoners of war would be released three days after a ceasefire ; and ( vi ) monitoring of the ceasefire would be carried out by observers or peacekeeping forces as determined by the UN Security Council . |
| 4 | In brief , the four regions of the South have been absorbing all the ( admittedly rather limited ) national increase in population and have been pulling in people from the rest of Britain . |
| 5 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
| 6 | It would be b because the straw , the thatch had been pulled all straight it would flowing down , and then they used to er they used to th throw it over , it would be throwing the water away from the stack had been built like an egg you know . |
| 7 | But this time the door had been closed all the way , and she could n't make out what was being said . |
| 8 | And McDonald 's UK president , Paul Preston , said : ‘ The restaurant has been packed all morning . |
| 9 | One approach to the problem has been to list all the various kinds of non-business organizations , pointing out their political , economic , and social differences , and then build the accounting theories from there . |
| 10 | The pair had been drinking all day and Jones downed more than 10 pints , while Miss Smith , 29 , drank six or seven pints of cider , Nottingham Crown Court was told yesterday . |