Example sentences of "the [noun pl] have [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The Arbuthnots have been here for generations . |
2 | The changes have been entirely on the asset side of the balance sheet . |
3 | The Americans have been here since 1950 . |
4 | Only two of the masters had been there before the war . |
5 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
6 | The Muses have been traditionally at war with Christ , ever since the period of late classical antiquity , when Jerome and Augustine both viewed literary excellence with the gravest suspicion . |
7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
8 | 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 . |
9 | The horses have been here for a year but up until yesterday the doors have been closed to the fans … yesterday they were opened up and thousands rolled up . |
10 | Four of the committee members are from developing countries , and the experience of several of the others has been mostly in these countries . |