Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This generalisation conceals wide variation , however , the heaviest losses having been in Merseyside , Manchester , Cleveland and parts of Scotland . |
| 2 | One former member of the Royal Corps of Signals had been to Hong Kong preventing the ‘ illegal entry of persons ’ , which would have come in handy for protecting intruders at Goldfinger 's headquarters . |
| 3 | Most of his full-scale skirmishes had been in NoGos or Urban Blight areas . |
| 4 | Recent trips have been to Arran , Bute , Aberfoyle and along various cycle tracks in Ayrshire . |
| 5 | How grateful the Jews have been to God and how sorely treated by God the Jews have been . |
| 6 | It emerged much later that the first casualties had been on Thursday night — Konserven , one at Gleiwitz , six at Hohnlinden — who had been dressed as Polish soldiers and shot . |
| 7 | Neither of Jo 's parents had been to Europe since her father returned from the war . |
| 8 | All the previous imports had been from Germany , but one of the most influential imports of the early 1960s was made by the Elsdens , who looked to Holland for their import . |
| 9 | The culture is named after a village away from the lake , though the better finds have been at Sesto Calende , the town at the end of the lakebound autostrada that heads north from Milan . |
| 10 | Much of the major investment in this country 's telecommunications infrastructure in recent years has been from BT , which has made a much bigger contribution to the Exchequer than it did in the 1970s , as it is more efficient , more productive , sells more services , makes more money and pays more tax . |
| 11 | ‘ I mean , if this six weeks had been with U2 or Faith No More , we 'd obviously be doing better than we are . |
| 12 | Jimmy Moon is an independent builder and repairer whose workshops have been in Glasgow since 1985 and before that on the Isle of Arran , off the West coast of Scotland . |
| 13 | Two groups of council officials have been in London pleading for more money from the government . |
| 14 | All her feelings had been for Gerry , with the coal-pitted hands , who had never harmed a soul . |
| 15 | All her fears had been of Adam dead , Adam never waking from his trance , Adam turned into an automaton . |
| 16 | Several of the deals had been with Bill Coleby : ‘ Got 2/6 off Coleby for Yugoslav note worth 1s ’ was one which Peter did not remember . |
| 17 | The party was controlled by a small group of Soviet-trained communists ; a few leading figures had been in Yenan . |
| 18 | And if it does , will the task-force leaders become in time what the product managers have been at Proctor & Gamble : the basic units of management and the company 's field officers ? |
| 19 | Key managers have been on Dale Carnegie courses , and all staff are invited to take any training course at company expense . |
| 20 | Previous issues from November 1990 to the last edition show that the major features have been on Gabby and Steffi , Zvereva and Martina and Monica , Capriati and Monica , Anke , Jana Novotna and Arantxa respectively , evidence of a fair and even representation of all women players by Tennis World . |
| 21 | ‘ What would Paul 's relations have been with Canon Wheeler ? ’ |
| 22 | The legal dispute over the relics has been between Mr John Claridge , who excavated them in 1931 , and his niece , Mrs Georgina Smith , the daughter of his brother , Geoffrey , who died in 1986 . |
| 23 | His early connections had been with Henry de Lacy . |
| 24 | Birmingham and the Fitzwilliam 's watercolours have been to Japan , the Victoria and Albert 's to East Germany , and the British Museum 's to Cleveland and North Carolina , a tour which resulted in the book under review . |
| 25 | The visiting players have been in England for some days , and all four are becoming understandable twitchy as the time to make the first moves approaches . |
| 26 | and the table tennis festival bounces on this weekend with the English Open Championship in Birmingham … skills of a different kind now … some of the country 's top hockey players have been in Swindon battling it out in the National Indoor Championship … these were the qualifying rounds … the action though worthy of the finals … here 's Erika Barnes |
| 27 | ‘ Our only defeat in four internationals has been against England and we deserved a place in the World Cup , ’ said Mills , who gained 13 Welsh caps between 1975–79 . |
| 28 | The fact that both men had been at Livingstone Manor intrigued him . |
| 29 | SWAPO says its men had been in Namibia all along . |
| 30 | The reports differed , however , as to whether the clashes had been between Uzbeks and Armenians , Tadjiks and Armenians , or Uzbeks and Tadjiks . |