Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party of young Australians had been out for a meal , and had stopped to take photographs , when Roermond 's market square echoed to gunfire . |
| 2 | Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work . |
| 3 | Local teams have been out on the River Wye at Hereford this week for a final training session before the big race . |
| 4 | Local teams have been out on the River Wye at Hereford this week for a final training session before the big race . |
| 5 | It rained for the first time since we arrived in Sian today ; There has been a drought all winter , and the townsfolk have been out into the countryside to help water the crops . |
| 6 | Protesters have been out in force as the council makes its second attempt to set its annual budget . |
| 7 | The Masters had been out to dinner and were well mellowed , wide awake and disposed to chat , but sitting in their quarry-tiled kitchen-diner , with thousands of pounds ' worth of elegant cabinet work and expensive machinery around him , McLeish managed to extract a coherent story . |
| 8 | Some exercises they perform sitting on chairs or using them for support , but floor exercises have been out of the question . |
| 9 | I said all along , once you 've got a staff of twenty odd , we 've had a lot of injuries which we have n't carped on too much , but senior players have been out with injury but it 's given young players an opportunity . |
| 10 | Terrorism , from whatever source , is the enemy of democracy and its evil forces have been out in strength in recent days . |
| 11 | Hence , the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases have been out of the mainstream of public health . |
| 12 | The youngest children had been out in the playground ; some of them survived . |
| 13 | Sir Keith Joseph offers a flexi-time history according to which , in the same speech where he entertained the spectacular belief that Britain 's streets had been plunged into insecurity ‘ for the first time in a century and a half ’ , he also conjured with a more modest timescale whereby ‘ such words as good and evil , such stress on self-discipline and standards have been out of favour since the war ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Pickles have been out of step with consumers ’ changing eating patterns in recent years , ’ says Hind . |
| 15 | The official factory view is that you can not but as the vehicles have been out of production for thirty years , testing by the factory has not been carried out . |
| 16 | Also , the American and Japanese economies have been out of kilter . |
| 17 | However , the Prime Minister , Petre Roman , admitted that the miners at times had been out of control and had committed violence against innocent people , although he supported their mobilization to aid the government . |
| 18 | The boys had been out on their bikes with a friend when they saw two men shooting into the brook . |
| 19 | Counsel for the ‘ Seventeen Towns ’ , claimed by Finch to be within the forest bounds , produced in rebuttal the perambulations of 1298 and 1300 , and their confirmation by Act of Parliament in 1336 , urging also that these towns had been out of the forest by ‘ the long and constant Usage ever since . |
| 20 | Others had been out of business for a while now . |
| 21 | In the meantime the others had been out on the track and found the footprints of the Friar and the distinctive mark of his staff . |
| 22 | And one effect of the recession has been , I 've got to say , that a lot of the old that er house-builders have operated on , which are good for selling , which sites will sell well , etcetera a lot of those rules have been out of the window . |
| 23 | For the last three days ten novice sailors have been out in the Western Approaches , sailing in winds of 40 knots or more through occasional sleet showers . |