Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been with " in BNC.
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| 1 | We at Halpern and Woolf believe the recession has been with us for some months already ; the C B I takes the same view and they 're pressing for interest rate reductions now to restore business confidence . |
| 2 | Ray 's only other acting experience has been with his school plays . |
| 3 | ‘ The liaison has been with all of the functional groups within the computer centre : analysis and programming , operations , user services , communications and technical support and data preparation . |
| 4 | If this card had been with either North or South the slam would have been a 75-per-cent chance . |
| 5 | One evening , when Sorrel had been with us for about five years , Sally and I got ready to take her for her usual walk . |
| 6 | ‘ All the servants at the hacienda have been with the count for years , some since he was a child . ’ |
| 7 | One new development in our educational work has been with schools and community organisations . |
| 8 | Quite a number of experiments leading to such identification have been with small aspect ratio Bénard convection ( Sections 22.1 , 22.4 ) [ 87 , 181 , 246 ] ; small in this context means not much greater than unity . |
| 9 | Fashion and make-up have been with us for a very long time indeed — there are make-up palettes surviving from ancient Egypt — and although men in certain times and cultures may devote a lot of effort to their appearance , it has remained chiefly a feminine domain . |
| 10 | Chris Patrick , from Hertford , reckons the force of England 's batting has been with Chewbacca , the South African at Hampshire , who bears resemblance to Robin Smith , grunting goody in Star Wars . |
| 11 | Indeed , with the beginnings of credit unions in this country , one group that has shown considerable interest in this development has been this group of lenders whose business has been with poor people . |
| 12 | The closest that the prewar colonel had come to a political affiliation had been with progressive , Christian anti-fascists . |
| 13 | George Wing had been with Hay ever since they met at 1660 Heavy Bomber Conversion Unit . |
| 14 | Many of the present team have been with the organisation at least since 1974 when Mr d'Ancona , an assistant secretary with the Department of Energy at the time , was asked to implement a political decision to transfer the headquarters of the fledgling organisation from London to Glasgow . |
| 15 | John Innes and peat have been with us ever since . |
| 16 | Defamation , blasphemy and sedition have been with us for centuries , but in recent years new rods have been fashioned and old ones polished for editorial backs : breach of confidence , contempt of court , official secrecy , " D " notices , incitement to disaffection , prevention of terrorism , copyright — the grounds for censorship are legion . |
| 17 | … atmospheric pollution has been with us since the creation ; it became much worse … with the Garden of Eden and infinitely worse following the mechanical ingenuity of James Watt . |
| 18 | For the present let me put it on record that the main hold-up has been with me , in setting up the Journal for printing . |
| 19 | Clinical presentation has been with acute nephritis , nephrotic syndrome , or renal failure . |
| 20 | Manager Douglas Scott has considerable experience in catering having been with CCG for almost 10 years . |
| 21 | A thick weekend , McLeish decided , trying to think how best to establish what Yeo 's relationship had been with the dead girl . |
| 22 | She wanted to know — as I suspect you do — what my relationship had been with her late sister . |
| 23 | Kevin Beasant , representative within the London area has been with LDP ( UK ) for the last two years . |
| 24 | Victor Vince , the Company 's General Manager has been with the firm for the past twenty years , Victor served five years in the RAF as an Aircraft Electrician tending to the needs of Bomber Command 's Halifaxes and Lancasters . |
| 25 | Newspaper journalists came up with the information that the pachinko barons had been just as liberal with their cash as the Recruit corporation had been with political donations and cheap shares not long before . |
| 26 | He told the man that one woman had been with the nurse when she died , and had heard some secret from her . |
| 27 | Her third main concern has been with the educational implications of her work , and here the influence of developmentalists such as Bruner is apparent . |
| 28 | The preoccupation in the past has been with the total size of the health service budget , how it is shared out at the macro level , and how much activity it funds . |
| 29 | Of course the phenomenological approach has been with us for a long time , and has been the primary source of evidence in the psychoanalytic tradition . |
| 30 | The old man had been with her in the shop that morning , the same as ever , gossiping about the business , about the vagaries of their customers , the oddities of town councillors and the perverseness of families — all with a humour that was wickedly spiced . |