Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff works in the dyehouse and has been with the company for ten years . |
| 2 | And then Rufus was asleep , his head turned on to the muscle of his upper arm , the fingers that had been on Adam 's shoulder retracting as they relaxed . |
| 3 | hold a position of responsibility within the industry and have been in such a post for at least two years |
| 4 | Oh it would be really nice you know , especially for the supporters that 's been behind us all season , so hopefully we can do it for them . |
| 5 | All the images that had been in Patrick 's mind while he drove up to the Barbican the previous morning formed again in his imagination . |
| 6 | Transracial adoption , the adoption of children by parents of different racial origin , developed in earnest in the mid-1960s and has been on the increase since then . |
| 7 | This project continues the work that has been in progress at the London Business School since 1965 . |
| 8 | The conduct had also to be intended to provoke a breach of the peace or to have been of such a nature as to have been likely to have occasioned such a breach . |
| 9 | Yeah , yeah you could certainly point out the areas that have been of interest to you and perhaps I could follow up with a phone call to er to Peter in the |
| 10 | Erm but you will be in that position , you may be so dedicated about something that you want to do like I did , I thoroughly enjoyed it it 's given me a great deal of pleasure , I 've worked with about a hundred different people over the years that have been in my dance group , all ages all personalities , we 've worked with some fantastic music which er erm we 've had to interpret . |
| 11 | He went into his bedroom , returned almost at once with the oil-lamp that had been on the table when we had dinner . |
| 12 | All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies . |
| 13 | The dunes that had been on the left were replaced by a sandstone ridge and the sand on that side of the road was now black . |
| 14 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
| 15 | The anger that had been in Creggan left him . |
| 16 | Whatever we may think of the future , we think of the past as having been in its time as determinate as the present now is . |
| 17 | ‘ This is the Government that has been in touch with the SNP in order to save themselves , but has not been in touch with the Dutch government in order to save Albion , ’ he said . |
| 18 | After a while she sat up and slowly began to undress to her camisole and her waist petticoat ; then , turning up the gas that had been on a low jet , she went across the room to the wash-hand stand and poured water from the jug into the basin . |
| 19 | Going to the local shops with her aunt one afternoon , she broached the subject that had been on her mind for days . |
| 20 | By the time the light was on , where was the man that had been in the bed ? |
| 21 | ‘ A friend of mine owned the studio and had been in the music industry a long time and was amazed that this 16-year-old had the whole production idea worked out in her head . ’ |
| 22 | Certainly those who came for a meal with Dorothy Mellings — while Alice was there , with Jasper — tended to come in ones or twos , mostly women , perhaps needing Dorothy 's advice , or even to borrow money ; divorced friends — so many of the couples that had been to the Mellings 's in the good days had split up . |
| 23 | I 'm not one to do double somersaults — I 'm not that acrobatic — but he 's one of the best in the country and has been for a long time . |
| 24 | This balance is particularly important for several of the industries that have been at the heart of the Japanese economic miracle like motor vehicles , electrical consumer goods , watches or cameras . |
| 25 | No , the fact remains that malaria is on the increase and has been for a number of years now . |
| 26 | First of all , there was the problem that had been at the root of France 's defeat in 1940 — the decay of the republican state , which had been so powerfully symbolized by the Third Republic 's abdication to Pétain in July 1940 . |
| 27 | The use has led to further commercialism of the land and has been to the detriment of the rural character of the area , they say . |
| 28 | It is in the system and has been for as long as I can recall . |
| 29 | I 'm the only girl in the family that 's been in prison . |
| 30 | In spelling out its arguments for the proposed pattern , the Council was once again reinterpreting the balance that had been at the centre of its concerns from the beginning : there was nothing in the Charter and Statutes ‘ which prevented greater recognition from being given to an institution 's own internal procedures where these could be shown to be rigorous and effective . |