Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenkins has been in the job for about ten days , so she can be forgiven for forgetting a lot of names , but she does have a long history of dealing with elderly people . |
| 2 | Since it began using the gas phase process in 1979 , ICI has been at the forefront of process control and development and has succeeded in covering the whole product range with this new technology . |
| 3 | ICI has been in the polypropylene business since the early 1960s and currently has capacity for 300 kt per year , part at Wilton in the UK , part at Rozenburg in Holland . |
| 4 | ICI has been in the polyethylene terephthalate business since the 1940s when it began to develop the material as a fibre — ‘ Terylene ’ — following its invention by two British chemists . |
| 5 | LM It is very easy in the kind of society Czechoslovakia has been in the past twenty years to lose a more general perspective on events . |
| 6 | Felix has been on the scheme for nine months , Gerald for two years . |
| 7 | Ian has been with the company for four years as a qualified Textile Technologist and Garry is learning the skills during his first year . |
| 8 | What the district around Takrit was to Saddam , Oltenia has been to the Ceauşescus . |
| 9 | Ben has been in the home since the beginning of the year when , while appearing as the Sheriff of Nottingham in a panto in Whitchurch , he was taken ill in his digs . |
| 10 | Living rough : Stewart has been on the streets in Edinburgh for three years , sleeping wherever he can find shelter and surviving on a mixture of benefits and begging . |
| 11 | Also , my share of the Lothians has been in the care of my cousin the Bishop of Alba . |
| 12 | Communities Against the Bidston Incinerator has been at the forefront of the fight to ensure that the controversial plant is not built . |
| 13 | Richard Jones , currently with Anglesey side Cemaes Bay , was formerly on Bangor City 's books and together with club-mate Simon Flowers has been at the Racecourse this week . |
| 14 | Scott has been around the rock and blues circuit in Ireland for some time and has played with many of the top musicians here . |
| 15 | About four-fifths of housing constructed in the LDDC has been for the owner-occupied sector . |
| 16 | ‘ I am convinced that much of the success achieved by the Arsenal has been through the team quickly sensing a weakness in the opposition , ’ Chapman commented . |
| 17 | Mr Crosby has been at the centre of that romance , reviving the club 's fortunes almost immediately after taking over from Denis Smith at Christmas and then inspiring the sort of Cup run last enjoyed by the passionate Roker supporters in the days of Bob Stokoe . |
| 18 | Jefferson has been in the business a long time and is no fool , is he ? ’ |
| 19 | Colin Calderwood has been with the club since their fourth division days , but has yet to sign a new contract for next season . |
| 20 | It was only when everyone rose to their feet , shook hands and made a beeline for the cooking tent — where , it emerged , Balvinder Singh had been for the last half-hour — that I realized that the ceremony was over . |
| 21 | Stanley Spencer had been through the war ; he had experienced the horror , the vulgarity , of war . |
| 22 | Ari found it was strangely comforting to be told how confused Ewan had been at the time he 'd turned his back on his family . |
| 23 | Veronica had been to the flat : was n't it possible she might have left something behind which Loretta could claim to have found ? |
| 24 | At seven-twenty that same morning , Scott had been at the site of an unusual hit-and-run story : two older men had been killed and another injured by a police patrol car . |
| 25 | A mole working inside Cranborne School had supplied them with a mailing-list of all Muslim parents whose children had been rejected by ‘ This is a Christian Country ’ Gyles , the Junior School headmaster , and Robert and Maisie had been through the telephone directory , picking out anyone with a Muslim-sounding name . |
| 26 | Angus had been to the town and he made his way back to his cottage along the shore . |
| 27 | Ken had been at the auditions that Michael Codron organized , when he was looking for a feed for Williams . |
| 28 | However , the allegation that Hazelwood had been under the influence of alcohol at the time of the disaster was contradicted by a number of witnesses at his trial , which opened in Anchorage , Alaska , on Jan. 29 , 1990 , after a six-month delay . |
| 29 | Bécherel had been under the command of one of his retainers , and another had been Constable of Saint-Sauveur , though in all probability he had not been involved in its surrender . |
| 30 | Lennox-Boyd had been in the post for five years and had asked to retire for family business reasons . |