Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been through " in BNC.

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1 The most long-standing method of training church musicians has been through apprenticeship .
2 Brian and I recounted the awful journey , but , of course , all the Yanks had been through the same ordeal .
3 But as some of the books had been through more than one library , the actual figures that emerged were 260 books from 292 libraries .
4 Some public sector organizations have been through the debate over an agonizing number of years : local authorities in the UK did so at the turn of the century and generally concluded that ‘ receipts and payments ’ was not sufficient .
5 ‘ Previously the losses have been through voluntary redundancies or retirements , losing some of our most experienced officers .
6 In between the time the dustbins are put out and the truck arrives , the pickers have been through the contents of the bins .
7 Fifty thousand Palestinians have been through the prisons since the intifada began ; scores of Arab children have been shot dead .
8 Fifty thousand Palestinians have been through the prisons since the intifada began ; scores of Arab children have been shot dead .
9 The conference heard that out of 732 post-mortem examinations — on victims of the Air India Boeing which crashed into the Atlantic near Cork , Zeebrugge , Piper Alpha , Lockerbie and Kegworth — 80.22 per cent of identifications had been through dentistry records .
10 Well , I suppose the police have been through the place already .
11 Around 730,000 of the new registrations have been through the Share Information Office and the rest with the many Share Shops set up by banks , building societies and other financial firms .
12 All our volunteers have been through it themselves .
13 This is the time of life at which friends and acquaintances begin to die ; women have been through the menopause and men can no longer deny that their virility is diminishing .
14 Their opponents have been through the mangle recently , going out of two cup competitions courtesy of Bangor and seeing their lead at the top of the table cut to a slender one point .
15 To date , three cases have been through this process .
16 It should be observed that the most significant contribution to compensation for injured workmen has been through insurance rather than the tort system .
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