Example sentences of "have [been] [noun] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 As far as local government is concerned the extent and direction of change to which it has been subject since the 1960s are difficult to explain mainly in terms of the state itself .
2 There has been acrimony between the two men ever since .
3 What keeps dancers fresh is new work to dance , and by that reckoning Russian ballet has been moribund since the 1917 revolution .
4 It is extremely probable that nine days later they would have been part of the 1000 Bomber Raid on Cologne .
5 He described his co-workers as ‘ the people who would have been poets in the sixties and they 're looking at computers as their medium of expression rather than language ’ ( Jobs , 1984 : 18 ) .
6 The outcome fuelled speculation about possible realignments on the left in Greek politics , where the KKE was the major element in the Coalition of the Left and Progress ( Synaspismos , of which Florakis was president ) since its formation in 1989 , and had been part of the two government coalitions in power from July 1989 until February 1990 [ see pp. 36738-39 ; 37050-51 ; 37263-64 ] .
7 He had been Housemaster since the 1920s of then East , now Warren ; officer commanding the ATC from 1944 until 1955 ; tennis-player , golfer , and wicketkeeper ; and a hiker of some distinction .
8 There have been attempts since the 1970s to limit the money which US parties spend campaigning , to outlaw very large donations , and to top up money raised from small contributors with state funding .
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