Example sentences of "have been [prep] [noun] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section four four onwards talks about erm the affecting the environmental and makes a point that will be we as officers have been with people on this and that is quite unusual er at this stage of the process . |
| 2 | Up in the desolate Arctic region of Vorkuta , site of perhaps Stalin 's most infamous Gulag camp , miners in nine of the area 's 13 pits have been on strike for more than a week against dismal living conditions , and the bureaucracy of the Communist Party and Soviet government . |
| 3 | Special task forces have been at work in each board to deal with the longest waiting lists and I have set aside an extra £1 million this year and in each of the next two years to support their work . |
| 4 | Most of the JMU visits so far have been to practices of this size . |
| 5 | These carvings have been off display for many years as it was discovered that atmospheric pollution , even within the museum , was eating away at the stone . |
| 6 | Would the Prime Minister confirm that today 's figures show the biggest rise in long-term unemployment in 10 years , that 1.3 million people in Britain have been without work for more than six months and that 750,000 of those have been without work for more than a year ? |
| 7 | Proposals for the development of a Taurus system have been under consideration for much of this decade . |
| 8 | The offences were of varying degrees of gravity and the appellants have been given different release dates under the statutory provisions which have been under examination in these appeals . |
| 9 | The visiting players have been in England for some days , and all four are becoming understandable twitchy as the time to make the first moves approaches . |
| 10 | OFFICIALS at Belfast City Airport have been in contact with another city-based UK airport after more than 100 people claimed fumes from a plane made them ill . |
| 11 | Group savings schemes and such like which have been in existence for many years . |
| 12 | The EGBT have been in existence for some years and have proved themselves a respectable and reliable organisation with several completed projects to their credit . |
| 13 | At present , horizontal presses of between 2,000 and 8,000 kilograms are allowed , but trials with larger machines have been in progress for several years . |
| 14 | ‘ We have been in favour of this objective since 1962 , ’ she said . |
| 15 | Stemming procedures have been in use for many years , mainly as a relatively cheap way of conflating terms which are morphologically similar in the hope that they are also semantically similar . |
| 16 | Our knowledge of graded tests comes from modern languages , where tests have been in use for more than a decade ; from mathematics , where two sets of tests are currently in use ; from science ; and from the long-established Associated Board Examinations in music , dancing , and spoken English , or recitation . |
| 17 | I HAVE been in business for many years operating a small company in the construction industry . |
| 18 | Many of the people who were targeted to move from hospital under the scheme have been in hospital for many years , many of them for more than 40 or 50 years . |