Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ETA is passionately campaigning and investigating to try and maintain the total ban ; a ban that has been in place barely enough time for a baby elephant to have been conceived and born . |
| 2 | ETA is passionately campaigning and investigating to try and maintain the total ban ; a ban that has been in place barely enough time for a baby elephant to have been conceived and born . |
| 3 | Simply expressed , the accountability , or responsibility , of single-party government to the people a responsibility that has been of the very essence of our system of parliamentary democracy-would be rendered less likely with proportional representation . |
| 4 | Yes a figure that 's been around that anyway , yes . |
| 5 | No they have n't , they 'd been bought a car that had been like , that it sort of been written off and rebuilt or something like that . |
| 6 | Patrick had seen the chance to ask a question that had been on his mind a long time . |
| 7 | Scott LJ ( with whom Butler-Sloss and Purchas LJJ agreed ) said that the appeal raised a question that had been before the court on a number of occasions in the past 10 years . |
| 8 | It was a longing that had been in her for always . |
| 9 | SongWright 5.1 is the latest version of a package that has been on the market for several years . |
| 10 | Lower School was opposite the Chapel and here , under the dark oaken beams and arches , I was taught in a classroom that had been in continuous use as such since 1443 . |
| 11 | For one thing , Kelly 's very happily involved in a relationship and has been for some time , so I 'm quite convinced her eyes wo n't stray towards any ski-bums , no matter how handsome . ’ |
| 12 | Lyn de Alwis , Director of the Sri Lanka National Parks , had a secret weapon , although it is debatable whether you can call a facility that has been in existence for several thousand years ‘ secret ’ . |
| 13 | Equality of opportunity — the idea that everybody should have a fair chance of doing themselves justice — is a notion that has been at the basis of public provision of education and indeed of much educational charity for a long time indeed . |
| 14 | Zabaleta , 39 , known in ETA as Waldo , had been involved with ETA since he was a teenager and had been in charge of its itinerant commandos since 1984 . |
| 15 | The amateur actor was born with only a third of a kidney and has been on dialysis for the past four years . |
| 16 | Sales in the product 's first year of deliveries amounted to only $1m , a drop in the bucket for a firm that 's been through two rounds of venture capital totalling $7.5m provided by Aspen Partners , Menlo Ventures and Matrix . |
| 17 | A government that has been in office for 13 years is bound to be judged overwhelmingly on its record . |
| 18 | ‘ Hopkins 's sister is a widow and has been for many a year , ’ the fellow replied . |
| 19 | She waited and waited , the feeling of living a nightmare that had been with her ever since Thursday intensifying . |
| 20 | This readiness to see a company that has been in state hands since 1922 pass into private , maybe foreign , ownership is rare . |
| 21 | It became possible to standardize the matériel and develop strategy in a way that had been beyond Muscovy 's capabilities . |
| 22 | Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember . |
| 23 | raises yet again a problem that has been before the Court of Appeal on a number of occasions over the past 10 years or so . |
| 24 | A marvellous opportunity to visit a forge that has been in the same family for five generations to see a working blacksmith . |
| 25 | Police think the man — who attacked a young woman in Brighton — is a transvestite or had been to a fancy dress party . |
| 26 | look , look you 're you 're you 're a guy that 's been through a lot . |
| 27 | During the same month the Young Republicans barricaded themselves into a house in Harvey Street to resist the eviction of a family that had been on the housing list for eighteen years . |
| 28 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
| 29 | ( FCA ) of who had been found to be in breach of Bye-law 76(b) and liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( ii ) in that he in London between 8 November 1990 and 3 March 1992 failed to deal properly and promptly with professional enquiries from chartered accountants in respect of a client and having been in breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) in that he in London between 7 January 1992 and 3 February 1992 failed to provide information required of him by the Investigation Committee on 7 January 1992 in exercise of its powers under Bye-law 80(a) concerning professional enquiries made by chartered accountants was reprimanded , fined £750 and ordered to pay £500 by way of costs . |