Example sentences of "have [be] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I associate myself with the remarks made by hon. Members in all parts of the House about the hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , who has been through an ordeal that none of us would wish to share . |
| 2 | Middleton-St-George , near Darlington , has been without a rector since Martin King left last summer to become rural dean of Sedgefield . |
| 3 | Anyone who has been alongside a ship when he or she is in a small boat knows the way she towers over you at a dockside . |
| 4 | Allan Bland on his son who has been in a coma since the Hillsborough disaster . |
| 5 | They 'd been for a meal and they came to the flat and they rung us to say they were there . |
| 6 | and this is really sad , and he told me mum that he 'd been to a hairdressers and done it . |
| 7 | This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day . |
| 8 | It might have been in a fight or something ? |
| 9 | ‘ Gray would still have been in a job if we had won at Torquay , ’ said Corden , ‘ but it was a diabolical performance and we felt something had to be done . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Gray would still have been in a job if Darlington had won at Torquay . ’ |
| 11 | It may have been from a belief that deputies provide a less good service , although published research has shown high patient satisfaction with deputies . |
| 12 | The Press Box must have been like a morgue when David McCallan scored that goal against them in the Irish Cup quarter final . |
| 13 | So all of those people there or most of them are likely to have been on a list that the school have recommended . |
| 14 | It was funny , in a Lewis Carroll sort of way , and at least the result was passable , if only as a trade magazine , whereas the woman 's magazine had been beyond a joke and she could not bear to look at the end product . |
| 15 | Dynasticism was not dead ; for some rulers , promoting family interests was as important as it had been to a Tudor or a Valois . |
| 16 | Disputes about whether a reference had been to an expert or an arbitrator have produced many lawsuits . |
| 17 | There had been a recent incident involving my younger brother , Russell , who had been at a party and on his way home been accosted by a group of men that he knew , who were in a car . |
| 18 | His clothes suggested that he had been at a party and was anxious to get back to it . |
| 19 | The poor darling had been through a lot and could n't be expected to … well , she was sure Melissa would understand how he must be feeling . |
| 20 | On one of the trials , Ray placed a popsock over the end of a pipe delivering water that had been through an Eradicator and , in 72 hours , collected a golf ball-sized piece of limescale from the mesh … in East Anglia , the water is so hard that it will give a kettle an internal fur coat in no time , and here was the proof . |
| 21 | He had been like an animal when they found him . |
| 22 | The original answer had been from a woman and the French had baffled her . |
| 23 | If people had been in a building after we had been round testing it and seen it secure , they 'd come out and leave it open . |
| 24 | But if the comparison between those who had been in a home and others is confined to those for whom relatives , neighbours or friends were interviewed , there is still a difference : 31 per cent against 19 per cent . |
| 25 | His security had been in a family that was to lose its roots , and in a sister who was to lose her life . |
| 26 | If these new inputs had been in a form that small farmers in marginal areas could practically use , it could be hypothesised that the resulting extra incomes would encourage soil-conserving investments and would take the pressure off farmers to over-exploit the environment . |
| 27 | It had been in an accident and it was worthless . |
| 28 | Flook was arrested after he told his mother he had been in an accident and she contacted the police . |
| 29 | Or the desperate plight of a little girl who had been in an orphanage since she was a month old . |
| 30 | They 've been through a lot and want to put it behind them . |