Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [be] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that those centuries had been times of uninterrupted peace . |
| 2 | It was also established that the Jews had been friends of the inhabitants of Pergamum in the time of Abraham ( Ant . |
| 3 | The Prussians had been allies of Britain at Waterloo , and preindustrial , Biedermeier , Germany was very attractive to many Britons . |
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| 5 | In the past such animals have been models of cleanliness , always asking to go outside before defecating , or confining themselves to a modern litter tray . |
| 6 | Both of her grandmothers had been ladies-in-waiting to the Queen Mother . |
| 7 | Though most enterprises in developing countries have been by-standers in many rounds , more are now coming forward to play their part for the future . |
| 8 | In the seven cases where no specific primary carer was named as participating , four social workers had been aides by unspecified ‘ others ’ , and the remaining three had completed the form with the cooperation of the young person ( 16–18 year old ) alone . |
| 9 | Those woundings had been steps on the path that brought her to Santa de Nogueira , she realized . |
| 10 | So did Kiffin Rockwell , the twenty-one-year-old medical student from North Carolina , both of whose grandfathers had been officers in the Confederate Army . |
| 11 | The show was worthy of the Cambridge Footlights , and I have no doubt that some of the participants had been members of that renowned dramatic society . |
| 12 | The government on July 18 took direct control of the State Property Agency ( SPA ) , whose officials had been members of the former communist government , and a week later announced that the head of the SPA , Istvan Tompe , would be replaced by Lajos Crepi ( former vice-president of the old post office ) . |
| 13 | The major exceptions have been counties in the mining areas where there has been a basis for Labour support . |
| 14 | Petite Forlarty which is a castle in the middle , just on the outskirts of Florence er and e for some reason I mean the c the Italians have been colourists for yonks . |
| 15 | Our families have been friends for years . ’ |
| 16 | These are almost always the same men , the ones who own the guns and the best-trained dogs , whose families have been hunters for years , passing their knowledge and experience down through the generations until it 's almost in the blood . |
| 17 | Many of the external referrals have been exclusions from other schools . |
| 18 | The Kurds have been victims of particularly intense repression : there have been fresh attempts to destroy the Kurdish autonomy movement , with the result that a host of Kurdish guerrilla groups now fight with Iran against the Baghdad government . |
| 19 | Many of these teachers had been learners in the original literacy campaign . |
| 20 | For the East Germans the Poles had been objects of contempt for most of Prussian history , and the loss of land to them was an insult that was not to be swallowed , but would instead produce a festering sense of indignity , shame and anger . |
| 21 | Six foot two when he stood up , he dominated any room and any stage ; the latter was not surprising , for his forebears had been actors since the days of the early Georges . |
| 22 | J. R. Clynes , the new Lord Privy Seal , wrote picturesquely of ‘ the strange turn in Fortune 's wheel which had brought MacDonald the starveling clerk , Thomas the engine driver , Henderson the foundry labourer and Clynes the mill-hand , to this pinnacle beside the man whose forebears had been Kings for so many splendid generations . |
| 23 | A jury swore in 1266 that John son of Nigel and his ancestors had been foresters of fee of Bernwood Forest ‘ from the Conquest of England ’ : another jury declared that the ancestors of William son of Adam had been granted the manor of Hutton-in-the Forest by Henry I , to hold by the serjeanty of keeping the bailiwick of Plumpton in Inglewood Forest . |
| 24 | While in the 1930s the CEB men had been leaders in advocating larger-scale power generation , with the undertakings sometimes dragging their feet , by the time of nationalisation they pinned their faith more on the benefits of standardising on 30MW and 60MW sets as a means of both cutting costs and overcoming the capacity shortage ( see pp. 24–5 , above ) . |
| 25 | A recent study by the North London Polytechnic shows that about 27 per cent of men have been victims of some unwanted sexual contact before they are 18 , compared to over 50 per cent for women . |
| 26 | And given that humans have been predators of prairie dogs for at least 150 years , the researchers argue that they are perfectly legitimate to use in such a test . |
| 27 | About a dozen deputies had been members of the outgoing parliament ; the average age of the new members was 45 . |
| 28 | Could the others have been examples of the ‘ leasemongers ’ on whom so much opprobrium was heaped ? |
| 29 | The Richardson boys had been visitors to her house for a long time . |
| 30 | The Merseyside Crime Survey found , for example , that 44 per cent of interviewees had been victims of crime in the last twelve months , and a quarter had been victimized twice or more . |