Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Lotus Notes has been on the market for some time , and is already being used by many of the world 's largest companies .
2 However , by and large , the audience split between the commercial and non-commercial sectors has been in the 40:60 ratio ( or vice versa ) and , therefore , within acceptable limits .
3 The traditional approach to the training and selection of headteachers has been on the basis of technical competence reinforced by practical experience .
4 With all eyes having been on the Government , Labour can get away with one conference like this one .
5 The average age of single deck vehicles was 10.3 years , while the county 's 88 more recently introduced mini-buses had been on the roads an average of 5.3 years .
6 Brian and I recounted the awful journey , but , of course , all the Yanks had been through the same ordeal .
7 It was then revealed that the two brothers had been on the brink of a merger with a hotel group , a highly respectable one with over fifty good solid hotels in the provinces .
8 Whenever there was something amiss in the district she wondered where her brothers had been at the time , and as she had been making her way to Sainsbury 's this thought had yet again crossed her mind .
9 In the whole region , perhaps 800,000 animals had been on the move , and about 20,000 were thought to have been killed by the hunters .
10 The training of the vernacular clergy had been in the hands of Arthur Dilworth , the first time that a missionary had been completely set aside for this important task .
11 The kids had been in the car and there was a water pistol on the shelf under the dash .
12 Previously , allocation of funds had been on a per capita student basis , but this changed to a research project grant system .
13 The Reconciled Dominions had been under the control of Yzordderrex 's Autarch for over a century , and every time Godolphin returned from a trip he had new signs of unrest to report .
14 When Mr Patel had passed , the previous evening and that morning , the man 's head and shoulders had been underneath the car , and no , he had not come into the shop at all .
15 They 're keen bird-watchers and their best sightings have been from the laboratory windows which overlook very special conservation areas .
16 Sugar 's last 46 trips have been with an RAAF Squadron .
17 Since August 1992 , all Workplace Assessed Units have been in the new format .
18 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 .
19 The bogs have been in the main part destroyed by forestry development and commercial peat cutting for horticulture .
20 But otherwise I just reckon there will be something around — or if the locusts have been at the fridge , well , I can always go out . ’
21 A great deal has been said and written , and food manufacturers have been in a hurry to extol the virtues of their food based on its fibre content .
22 WHILE most British eyes have been on the election of a new Westminster parliament , a 500-member pensioner 's parliament from all 12 countries of the European Community has called for better pensions throughout the EC .
23 The polytechnics have been under a similar financial strain .
24 The total losses have been of the order of 25,000 , but the fact remains that there are still more than 140,000 people directly involved in the defence industry and more than 120,000 indirectly involved .
25 The main losses have been in the relations between staff and the prisoners .
26 Much of the blame must be laid at the door of the disorganised America 's Cup Organising Committee , who for the past 10 months have been on the brink of bankruptcy .
27 Does the Minister recognise that the question of loan sharks has been on the agenda for the past 12 years , but that nothing positive has occurred other than the report to which he referred ?
28 The crucial difference , especially in recent years , between the two countries has been in the timing of their respective economic cycles .
29 Similarly , the emphasis in large-scale Japanese companies has been on the creation of organisation-oriented , bureaucratic policies ( emphasising job security , seniority-based promotion , incremental pay scales , etc . ) .
30 In making the change , the Church effectively admitted that on these points the Reformers had been in the right .
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