Example sentences of "have been [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The alleged conspirators had been under surveillance by customs officers for some time before arrest . |
| 32 | Connolly denied the charges but the court heard that swabs taken from his hands indicated he had been in contact with explosives and that he was found in possession of a key to the front door of the second house . |
| 33 | Whilst in Russia he had been in contact with representatives of the Russian Bible Society , and through them had learned of the monitorial system of schoolteaching pioneered by Lancaster and Bell in Britain . |
| 34 | The camp and many others like it had been in existence for years . |
| 35 | He had been in charge of situations for the previous half century , since he had commanded guns on the Barham at the Battle of Jutland , as a midshipman , in the First World War . |
| 36 | You 've been at school for years and what have you achieved ? |
| 37 | But I said , that they 've been in bathrooms for years like ! |
| 38 | And er video camera and lighting among them and er they look as if they 've been in place for hours . |
| 39 | Yet every child care establishment I have worked in I have been of benefit to children , especially boys , who have had insufficient experience of a positive role model . |
| 40 | Traditional beer and pubs have been under threat for decades — and remain so today . |
| 41 | Nor do they always distinguish Turks who have been in Germany for years from recent ‘ economic migrants ’ . |
| 42 | Others have been in existence for years , yet seem to hold out little hope of attracting new recruits . |
| 43 | ( It is interesting to note that the Jeffery family have been in Donhead for centuries as The Visitation of Wilts 1565 records that the first wife of Alderman Thomas Pople of Salisbury , was ‘ Katherine , daughter to John Jeffery of Doned Marie , Dorset ’ . ) |
| 44 | As was intimated earlier , less formal approaches to the inflationary biases which may be endemic within certain systems of industrial relations have been in circulation among Keynesians for many decades . |
| 45 | People who have been in trouble with repayments to another creditor in the past may have a County Court Judgement ( CCJ ) against them . |
| 46 | It 's been under wraps for weeks , but now the political biography everyone 's talking about has finally arrived . |
| 47 | There are 80 organic wines on his list ( ‘ no chemicals so less chance of a hangover ’ ) and he 's been to loads of vineyards to make sure production is as natural as possible without actually treading the grapes . |
| 48 | It 's been for sale for ages has n't it ? |
| 49 | He plays Jeremy Conway , a spy who 's been in Britain for years achieving a powerful position with a large London bank . |