Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |
| 2 | But performances have been consistently below par for too long and drastic action needs to be taken . |
| 3 | The contributions to this issue have been mainly from the London staff but this should be more balanced next issue as I 'll be chasing you lot in Canterbury for contributions . |
| 4 | " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin . |
| 5 | As a result , the major dividing lines have been less between the craft and industrial unionism dimensions than between , on the one hand , secular and confessional ( generally Catholic ) unionism , and reform-oriented ( mainly socialist ) or revolutionary ( communist or syndicalist ) unionism on the other ( Windmüller , 1974 ) . |
| 6 | As far as health and safety is concerned , Les Bell , Scottish region director and head of the UK professional and financial division of Sedgwick , said , ‘ directors have been personally in the firing line for some time ’ . |
| 7 | The French team have been together since Sunday — and even that was not enough for Fouroux . |
| 8 | The 18 months that Del Amitri have been away from the spotlight have n't been wasted and they 've come up with some belting songs to prove it . |
| 9 | With a brass section that cheerfully joined in any chorus they could remember complete with formation instrument swaying and excellent drums , double bass and guitar , it was easy to see that this band have been all over the world together . |
| 10 | At the same time problems have been much in evidence . |
| 11 | The changes have been entirely on the asset side of the balance sheet . |
| 12 | But in recent years his plays have been more about the paradoxical nature of dissidence itself : the emotional turbulence of the authority given the individual as a public spokesman , and about the fact that one of the worst features of any totalitarian system is the need to conform to other people 's expectations . |
| 13 | The marketing drive is their latest attempt to commercialise space and earn hard currency , Until now any deals have been largely through the Soviet Space Agency , Glvacosmos . |
| 14 | On other occasions committees have been generally in support of government action but have urged that it be undertaken more vigorously : the Defence Committee has been critical of the Ministry of Defence when it has spent less than the sums provided in the annual estimates . |
| 15 | Erm the n the net movements between Cleveland and North Yorkshire as a whole have been respectively for nineteen eighty eight , four hundred and fifty five persons , for nineteen eighty nine , two hundred and twenty nine persons , er for nineteen ninety , two hundred and forty persons , nineteen ninety one , three hundred and thirty seven persons , and for nineteen ninety three , because I missed the figures for ninety two for some reason , they 're not there , er five hundred and ninety nine . |
| 16 | For instance , many firms have been perpetually on the brink of buying up a broker but brokers are often quick to deny it . |
| 17 | Whatever the outcome , CRII-RAD are highly critical of CEA in the affair and say that the official CEA figures have been well below the real plutonium levels at the site . |
| 18 | For many years , urban finance has been a system with which very few practitioners or academics have been totally at ease and procedures governing local-government funding have become more convoluted in the 1980s . |
| 19 | You think of the people , I mean , these people have been there for all those years |
| 20 | Indeed , all the staff have been away on courses on this . |
| 21 | Some of the staff have been here for twenty years . |
| 22 | Aerospatiale and Socata have been there since 1911 and will probably be there for the next 80 years , whether they buy Piper or not . |
| 23 | Drummer Larry , bassman Adam and guitarist The Edge have been together with Bono since schooldays . |
| 24 | On the one hand , ethnic minorities currently settled in Britain have been here for a relatively short period of time , and it seems that circumstances of migration and initial settlement are conditions under which support between siblings assumes greater significance than it might otherwise do — a point illustrated by the patterns of chain migration and of joint households which I discussed earlier in this chapter . |
| 25 | In other fields — most notably those concerned with computers — both France and Britain have been far from successful . |
| 26 | The Muses have been traditionally at war with Christ , ever since the period of late classical antiquity , when Jerome and Augustine both viewed literary excellence with the gravest suspicion . |
| 27 | Previous investments in Eastern Europe have been mainly in the form of joint ventures . |
| 28 | Hole have been right up front with the anger thanks to newly pregnant Mrs Cobain , Courtney Love . |
| 29 | The Americans have been here since 1950 . |
| 30 | Moreover , there is a coincidence between centres of dispersal and enclaves of diversity among Amazonian languages and the plant and animal ‘ refugia ’ , but humans have been there for perhaps only 6000 years . |