Example sentences of "have been [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the limited resources available at our disposal we have not been able to build too many expert systems and most of these have been on a small scale . |
| 2 | The teams have been on a rigorous training schedule for the hundred mile long test of skill and stamina . |
| 3 | The teams have been on a rigorous training schedule for the hundred mile long test of skill and stamina . |
| 4 | Of these four have been on a surgical waiting list for a median f 9.5 months ( range five to 14 ) . |
| 5 | We have been on a high speed , yeah . |
| 6 | We were there , too , as we have been on the first weekend of June in each of the past four years ; the roistering boys whose fever for drink and song has been jaded , ever so slightly , by contemplation of middle age and the fingering of indigestion tablets . |
| 7 | On the other hand , though , it has to be said that some of the local urban excitements have been on the tame side recently : a swimming pool murder , an outbreak of cholesterol war between rival pizza outlets , the car that drove into the non-drive-in dry cleaners , and so on . |
| 8 | Mr V.P. Singh outwitted them all with his choice of the mufti , a gesture of reconciliation to the nation 's 100million Muslims , who have been on the receiving end of bloody communal violence in north India . |
| 9 | Kirk Douglas 's reputation for being difficult has , in recent years , become something of a joke , even for those who have been on the receiving end of his temperament . |
| 10 | Recently , however , two small-scale studies have been completed which take on board the perceptions and experiences of parents who have been on the receiving end of child protection interventions . |
| 11 | A large number of places , particularly the smaller cities and towns of southern England , have been on the receiving end of all three major migration streams , while at the other extreme the large cities , particularly those in northern England and Scotland ( the ‘ urban north ’ ) , have acted as the main reservoir from which these flows have been drawn . |
| 12 | Members who have been on the Public Accounts Committee , as I have , will know all about virement , which is not a recondite issue but a practical one . |
| 13 | In addition , the proximity of the Survey to the University ( they have been on the same site since 1975 ) led to contacts between their respective staffs , with a cross-fertilisation of ideas . |
| 14 | When we have been on the losing side in county or Test cricket nothing has been said . |
| 15 | Traditional budgets have been on an annual time-scale . |
| 16 | For nominal Christians it is perhaps only the third time they have been at a religious service ; the other two being their baptism and marriage . |
| 17 | Technological developments have been at a fast pace since the 1950s . |
| 18 | The conservatives who have been the most vocal advocates of alliance with the US and opponents of communist totalitarianism , have been at the same time among the most strident supporters of Japanese rearmament and the revival of ‘ traditional values ’ . |
| 19 | Delegates are still addressed as brother , sister , or comrade , but this year there are electronic signs in the hall giving the speaker 's name — as there have been at the Conservative conference for quite a while . |
| 20 | For it was the procedures and practices that have been at the very core of racing tradition for generations that were on trial here , and there was little realistic chance that they should have been found wanting . |
| 21 | I have been to every Metropolitan police station , from Islington in the north to Bow Street in the west . |
| 22 | I have been to a large number of conferences and met many general practitioners , including many from my hon. Friend 's district . |
| 23 | ‘ These good people have been to an enormous amount of trouble on my behalf , and I am sure I shall be quite unable to do justice to their generous provision . ’ |
| 24 | Whether you do n't know an opera at all or whether it is an old friend , you will still enjoy the show all the more if you have been to the pre-performance talk . |
| 25 | ‘ You have been to the Russian baths ? ’ |
| 26 | I have been to the Over-Sixties Club where they have some very good concerts and I go to services at Cotherstone Methodist Chapel whenever I can . |
| 27 | I have been to the Holy Land twice this year and have seen the appalling conditions Palestinians are living under . |
| 28 | Her students , she says , are well prepared for Europe , and have been for a long time . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , most buildings built for the purposes of ‘ agriculture ’ have been for a long time exempt from such planning control as can be exercised by local planning authorities . |
| 30 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |