Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] have [adv] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The suggestion of a ‘ social contract ’ between States had already been made in the first half of the seventeenth century by Grotius . |
| 2 | However , the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland has increasingly been able to give some very substantial grants towards churches , ensuring that churches faced with closure because of a repairs crisis have been able to continue in use . |
| 3 | The Forest of Dean has long been used as a dustbin . |
| 4 | Criticisms of Germany had hitherto been largely implicit in the philhellenic perspective . |
| 5 | Poor widows in Barking and Dagenham parishes in the Forest of Hainault had formerly been allowed one load of wood yearly from the ‘ King 's woods ’ : the disafforesting Act of 1851 provided that an equivalent sum should be invested in Consols , and the income applied to a distribution of coal at Christmas to the widows . |
| 6 | ‘ The Port of Larne has always been in the forefront of development and modernisation . |
| 7 | One almost complete skeleton of Crassigyrinus had previously been known from only one skull fragment . |
| 8 | The Battle of Jutland has often been judged a ‘ draw ’ ; but in warfare there is really no such thing . |
| 9 | My one criticism of SansAmp has always been the harshness of the top end ; the GX-7 certainly has less odd harmonics and so produces a distortion sound which is more pleasing to the ear . |
| 10 | Man Of Ross has just been chosen as a demonstration farm by an organization called LEAF … |
| 11 | These included the restoration of Scottish peerages forfeited after the rebellion of '45 , the continuation of the Scottish currency , and — to me most dramatic and romantic of all — his discovering in a locked box in Edinburgh Castle the ancient regalia of Scotland ; the crown and sceptre and sword of state with which the kings of Scotland had always been crowned , and which had last been used at the coronation of Charles II at Scone . |
| 12 | It is true that much of England had already been enclosed by 1760 , but in some areas , notably in the south and east Midlands in counties like Northamptonshire , Cambridge and Oxfordshire , more than half of enclosures took place after 1760 under acts of parliament . |
| 13 | The man in the north of England had clearly been a nutcase . |
| 14 | The news of the Young Pretender 's invasion of England had initially been received in London with complacency , which gave way to concern and then serious alarm . |
| 15 | ‘ The Old Halls , Farm Houses and Cottages of the North of England have long been admired for their elegant pecularity reg=peculiarity of design , and , aided by accidental additions and delapidations , and by combinations of the richest woods , and back-grounds of rocks and mountains , are , in their kind , finer objects for study than any others to be met with in the island . |
| 16 | ‘ Establishment ’ today means very little outside the sphere of the purely formal and ceremonial and the devotion of the time of Parliament to the tedious and time-consuming task of regulating the affairs of the Church of England has long been recognised as anachronistic . |
| 17 | Will the Secretary of State confirm that fully two thirds of the costs of Trident have already been spent or contractually committed by the present Government ? |
| 18 | At Split in Yugoslavia the Porta Aurea in the Palace of Diocletian has already been referred to ( 138 ) , and in Spain at Alcántara , the Roman bridge still possesses its portal over the central pier ( 167 ) . |
| 19 | It was his own spiritual change which made possible after the poems of the early twenties a more affectionate view of London , but we should not assume that the owner of Down the Silver Stream of Thames had ever been totally blind to the beauty of the city . |
| 20 | It is significant that the union which represents the employed workers of Cartón has never been on strike . |
| 21 | As kite-makers and everyday enthusiasts for kite flying , the Peacock family of St.Albans had also been the winners over the first two years of the Kite Society 's Rokkaku Challenge . |
| 22 | Whole sera , IgG fractions and Fab fractions of IgG have all been used ( 25 ) . |
| 23 | At that time hardly anyone but Winters would have named Williams in the same breath as Eliot , and it is characteristic of Winters 's perversity ( or his independence ) that thirty years later , when it had become usual to set Williams up against Eliot , Winters 's opinion of Williams had long been much less favourable . |
| 24 | Capital and corporal punishment , to which majorities in the House of Commons had consistently been opposed , long remained at or near to the top of the short but touchy list of policy issues separating Conservative Ministers from their party followers . |
| 25 | These remarks of Chomsky have often been quoted , and adduced more often than not , almost gleefully at times , as evidence in support of the view that linguistics has no relevance to language teaching and that therefore applied linguistics , as it relates to pedagogy at least , is vacuous . |
| 26 | The history of Venice has long been bound up with a pageant of ships . |
| 27 | The loyalists now had the grounds they needed to be able to argue that the executive was undemocratic : the people of Ulster had finally been given a chance to vote on the issue and 50.8 per cent of them were opposed to power-sharing . |
| 28 | Until that moment the sons of Aethelfrith had possibly been in alliance with the British leader . |
| 29 | Soviet relations with the largest of its neighbours , the People 's Republic of China have also been difficult and at times have broken down altogether . |
| 30 | For this reason , they feel that the siege of Londonderry has never been lifted and they are prepared to die to defend that heritage . |