Example sentences of "have been [prep] [noun] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |
| 2 | Advertising manager Peter Matthews confirmed the review , which he says has been under way for some time . |
| 3 | Usthinks the company doth protest too much : despite the fact that the countdown to its flotation has been under way for some weeks now , and Quality Software Products Plc has finally formally announced that ‘ following last week 's successful launch of Universal OLAS ’ it ‘ has decided to begin the process of seeking a listing on the London Stock Exchange , ’ it still says that ‘ no final decision will be taken for some time , ’ making it sound as if the company is signalling frantically that it would prefer to be acquired if only someone would come forward offering more money than it could raise in a public flotation . |
| 4 | She herself has been under attack in several ways already and needs our prayers daily . |
| 5 | Here , he defends the workings of Westminster 's controversial lobby system which has been under attack from several newspapers , including The Independent and The Guardian . |
| 6 | One man who has been with science for many years now — and his experience certainly tells — is Mick Rhodes , whose new series of QED began last week . |
| 7 | It does not mean that the Holy Spirit can not work on men of other faiths and draw their inner longings to Christ.John Taylor , in The Go-Between God , says rightly , ‘ The eternal Spirit has been at world in all ages and all cultures making men aware and evoking their response , and always the one to whom he was pointing and bearing witness was the Logos , the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world . |
| 8 | The ship has been at Rosyth for some weeks and work should have started on 1 March . |
| 9 | His coaching and help at nets has been of benefit to all our players . ’ |
| 10 | Anyone who has been in receipt of this form of grant aid from the Sports Council has already received guidance notes and application forms direct from that Council . |
| 11 | And so the incredible growth of government throughout this century has been in response to all kinds of problems : economic insecurity , unemployment , declining industries , poverty , natural monopolies , external costs , pollution , inflation . |
| 12 | In Germany the nature of the educational system has been in tune with both the needs of industry and prevailing social values [ Locke , 1984 ] . |
| 13 | The Village Trust is a respected body which has been in existence for many years . |
| 14 | Lyn de Alwis , Director of the Sri Lanka National Parks , had a secret weapon , although it is debatable whether you can call a facility that has been in existence for several thousand years ‘ secret ’ . |
| 15 | Although it has been in existence for some considerable time , train operation for passengers has been provided by battery-electric power . |
| 16 | Knighton has been in contact with several businessmen from the Manchester area in attempts to get wider backing for his £20m bid , which has hit financial snags . |
| 17 | June Bascome has been in contact with several areas and Kent , Essex , Surrey and London have each promised to supply the manning power for one of the days . |
| 18 | The WISE Vehicle Programme has been in operation for many years now , following the launch of the original WISE I bus in WISE Year 1984 . |
| 19 | However , where a discriminatory practice has been in operation for some time it may be easier for the Commission for Racial Equality to produce evidence in support of an allegation . |
| 20 | ‘ Although the calcinating plant has been in operation for some years now , it is the most modern of its type in the industry , ’ commented senior mill manager Graham Jones , ‘ and while it may not be attractive to the eye , it does produce beautiful materials . ’ |
| 21 | A standard Northern Ireland training package has been in operation for some time including intensive urban and rural patrolling , riot control techniques , shooting at fleeting targets , powers of arrest , orders for opening fire , bomb and weapon recognition . |
| 22 | The stop has been in position for many years and is provided for within the parking arrangements and controls within the area . |
| 23 | If we consider the environment in the broadest sense , much monitoring of it has been in progress for many years and by an enormous diversity of organizations in the UK ; these include the DoE , the Forestry Commission , the Nature Conservancy , the Health and Safety Executive , local authorities , the component members of the Natural Environment Research Council ( such as the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology and the British Antarctic Survey ) , individuals or research groups in academia , the CEGB , the Friends of the Earth , and UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development ( CEED ) ( 1989 ) . |
| 24 | The most significant increase , however , has been in registrations on those modules from fields classified as ‘ applied ’ , i.e. those on which the degree student can also achieve professional recognition . |
| 25 | In particular , who in the nine months has been in charge of this section and shown great dedication and commitment . |
| 26 | But until changes in the registration of women 's occupation were introduced in 1986 there was a major difference between men and women : ‘ At the registration of the death of a child … the instructions to the registrars specify that the occupation … of a woman should not be recorded unless she has been in employment for most of her adult life . ’ |
| 27 | A furniture shop which has been in business for more than a century is closing down . |
| 28 | The disputes procedure , that has been in place for some time , and enables us to resolve disputes locally , if they can not be resolved locally , then they are referred up through the management systems . |
| 29 | It has been in implementation of this principle that states have agreed on specific treaty obligations banning chemical and gas weapons , culminating in the 1925 Geneva Protocol banning Asphyxiating , Poisonous or other Gases and Bacteriological Methods of Warfare . |
| 30 | One such system , telex , has been in use for many years . |