Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Contract discussions have been under way since early this year , according to West German sources . |
2 | but fifty seven of you out of sixty three car owners have been in an accident , is that , yes |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Fortunately , not all recent pub refurbishments have been in this vein . |
5 | Two groups of council officials have been in London pleading for more money from the government . |
6 | The impartiality and fairness with which he has carried out all tasks during many years on the school 's management team have been beyond reproach . |
7 | Strictly speaking , marriage does not contribute directly to population change , but , because of its association with the legitimacy of births in most countries , marriage rates have been of some interest . |
8 | Disputes between planners and private sector developers have been over matters of detail . |
9 | Managers have not , on the whole , been predisposed to numerically oriented analysis , clinicians have not pushed for cost or outcome data preferring to focus upon patient care processes and cash inputs have been on the basis of fairly crude recurring allocations . |
10 | The most complex and prolonged human/dolphin associations have been with bottlenose dolphins , but Doak thinks that they are by no means limited to this species . |
11 | Accident investigators have been at the scene this morning trying to piece together what happened . |
12 | Accident investigators have been at the scene this morning trying to piece together what happened . |
13 | 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 ? |
14 | Many of these people , training providers , employers and job seekers have been in touch to tell us how worthwhile the events were . |
15 | Bruce Harris and the 200 strong team from Casa Alianza have been at the forefront in the fight to protect the street children of Guatemala . |
16 | Traditional peg tiles have been in great demand since the storms of the past few years , so for Tenterden tile makers Spicer , the clouds had a silver lining . |
17 | Although employment protection provisions have been in place for 18 years now , all too often reports of unfair dismissal cases are variations on the same theme : companies trying to get rid of pregnant employees in an effort to avoid extra expense and disruption to the working routine . |
18 | Mr Kinnock , however , has moved Labour back to the centre and since 1987 the two former Alliance parties have been in disarray . |
19 | American bond yields have been at 20-year lows , and shares are expensive . |
20 | It is difficult to assess exactly how important such credit effects have been in this recession . |
21 | ‘ Hot metal ’ glue guns have been on the d-i-y market for some time . |
22 | Hundreds of staff at polytechnic and further education colleges have been on strike in a protest over pay . |
23 | However , the most striking developments in welfare services have been on the delivery side rather than the personal counselling aspect . |
24 | But not all station encampments have been of rail travellers . |
25 | In Ireland , credit unions have been in existence for a decade longer than in Britain , but there are now over 450 unions , with a membership exceeding three-quarters of a million . |
26 | Irvin and Martin 's assessment techniques have been in great demand abroad , even as the British science establishment closes ranks against it . |
27 | Might not Derek Pringle 's participation in the World cup final with the help of a cortisone injection have been at the risk of permanent damage to himself| ? |
28 | Joint consultative committees and joint care planning teams have been in place since the 1974 reorganisation of the NHS , but joint finance of community care projects on any significant scale dates from 1976 . |
29 | Exchange rate changes have been at times suggested as a justifiable response to productivity growth rate differentials . |
30 | We as a trade union have been in the forefront of campaigning and supporting the Labour Party , not just as , in its election battle , but in attempting to modernize the Party 's thinking , the Party administration , be it on the issue of quotas for women , on policy making , on finances and on the block vote . |