Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inter-rater reliability was assessed across codes , individuals and data-points ; mean weighted occurrence/ non-occurrence reliability has been between 84 per cent and 95 per cent on each occasion . |
| 2 | It is currently considered that a House consisting of some 650 members is appropriate ; the figure has been between 600 and 650 for many decades although there is nothing magic about this particular size . |
| 3 | The major thrust of this recent research has been in four directions . |
| 4 | According to Mills , the United States had been through five epochs . |
| 5 | It was awkward , too , from the sales point of view , that Richard had been aboard one of these barges when he got knocked over the head . |
| 6 | ‘ I am thinking that maybe these gentlemen have been to one English Wine Shop , ’ said Dr Haidar , speaking in that slightly sanctimonious tone that Muslims sometimes adopt when discussing alcohol . |
| 7 | Dr Curtis had been in four times . |
| 8 | In July , Tilden Barham , the Battle relieving officer , was carried out of the parish as his Brede counterpart had been in 1830 , a fate shared with the officer at Willingdon , who was led out by jeering women and children . |
| 9 | The most recent public execution in Albania had been in 1986 . |
| 10 | In the post-war period , expenditure on the military has been between 5 and 10 per cent of GDP . |
| 11 | In contrast , the drop in the United Kingdom over the same period has been from 4.4 to 3.1 per 100,000 of the population — a reduction of 32 per cent . |
| 12 | My aim has been in one respect identical to Paley 's aim . |
| 13 | When Bigwig had spoken earlier of sounding out the Owsla , Hazel had been in two minds . |
| 14 | The first really large wave of Jewish immigrants had been in 1881 with the pogroms of Alexander III in Russia . |
| 15 | Inflation has been above 11.5 per cent since 1983 , and reached 18.6 per cent in 1986 . |
| 16 | The United Kingdom has been through 13 years in which unemployment has more than doubled , irreplaceable assets have been wasted , markets at home and abroad have been lost , manufacturing investment has fallen , poverty has increased , the crime rate has rocketed , and talents have been neglected . |
| 17 | ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend . |
| 18 | Liverpool have been without five of the powerful line-up Mr Souness selected for the first match against Portsmouth in the intervening League games . |
| 19 | Although the triple junctions identified in Africa , including those along the continental margin as well as those in the interior , have variously evolved by spreading along one , two or all three rift arms , the most common sequence has been for one arm to remain inactive and form an aulacogen , with spreading occurring along the other two ( Fig. 4.13 ) . |
| 20 | She carried their drinks into the living room and asked Ralph if he had managed to see his solicitor ; the appointment had been at 2 p.m . |
| 21 | In fact the earliest exports to Australia had been in 1820 but the breed did not become established for another 30 years . |
| 22 | John Baring 's father had been from 1882 senior partner in the merchant bank of Baring Brothers , and he himself joined the firm on leaving Cambridge , served his apprenticeship as a clerk , travelled widely in North and South America , and was made a full partner early in 1890 . |
| 23 | They had known they were on the knife edge , and interest rates had been at 8 per cent . |
| 24 | Thus , a government report in 1970 concluded that , for the period 1954–68 , ‘ the underlying upward trend in the percentage of the manual labour force on shifts in manufacturing has been about 1 per cent per annum . ’ |
| 25 | Ballistics experts proved the pellets had been from two air rifles found in Dines ' car . |
| 26 | I ordered Andrew one , Andrew has been after one for a long time . |
| 27 | The average audience has been between 200,000 and 250,000 . |
| 28 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the cumulative total of all taxes from North sea oil has been since 1979 in 1991-92 prices . |
| 29 | The last occasion upon which a Canadian Prime Minister had attempted to use the British monarch to alter the composition of the Senate had been in 1874 , when Queen Victoria had rejected a request from Alexander Mackenzie . |
| 30 | According to a friend Patricia had been to two fortune tellers recently . |