Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [prep] [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
| 2 | Let's have a look back and see how successful you have been in the past . |
| 3 | We would like to point out that many people at the centre told us that the attitudes we had encountered were less prevalent now than they had been in the past , and would continue to diminish . |
| 4 | At a media briefing in the House of Commons , the five main polling organisations — Gallup , Harris , ICM , NOP and MORI — reminded political editors and other interested journalists how accurate they had been in the past . |
| 5 | But the fly in the ointment , from the princes ' point of view , lay in the fact that their advantages were now more widely shared than they had been in the past . |
| 6 | Henceforward , at least in theory , the highest echelons of society were less likely to be permeated by gifted but landless bureaucrats than they had been in the past . |
| 7 | The removal of entry quotas encouraged young people who had been denied access to universities in the last years of Nicholas to enter them under Alexander , with the result that students tended to be older and more politically engaged than they had been in the past . |
| 8 | In no circumstances was the bulk of the Labour Party prepared to be allied with groups which were clearly not as influential as they had been in the past . |
| 9 | What they have been in the past , in the face of their grim working lives , is resilient . |
| 10 | Both the American and British governments are cloaking these new operations in a shroud of secrecy though it is unlikely any politician has the slightest idea what the two agencies are planning to do or that they even care if laws are broken as they have been in the past . |
| 11 | Homosexuality between consenting adults aged 21 or over , and abortion during a certain period of pregnancy , are not criminal offences at present , although they have been in the past . |
| 12 | As a generalization , competitors are more open with each other that they have been in the past and there is much more information available . |
| 13 | We pay attention to those salient features which are constitutive of the type of genre , and expect that the peripheral features will be as they have been in the past . |
| 14 | If these twin policies are to have any effect in reducing geographical inequalities , they need to be pursued more vigorously than they have been in the past . |
| 15 | For their part , ministers are accountable to Parliament , so ministers are the vital link in the chain between the civil service and Parliament and , indeed , they have been in the past not merely a link but a barrier . |
| 16 | A thorough overhaul of the educational process will ensure that standards remain as high in the future as they have been in the past . |
| 17 | And erm so I do n't think the issues of affordable supply are quite the same as they have been in the past and I think it 's a very relevant consideration for this particular structure plan . |
| 18 | We need to recognise that some letters will take longer to answer that public loos will not be as fully attended as they have been in the past . |
| 19 | ‘ It seems to me that everyone thinks he 's ill merely because he is less rude and rather more bearable than he has been in the past , ’ the head said irritably . |
| 20 | That is how it has been in the past , we have never been friends , and perhaps it has been altogether my fault . |
| 21 | ‘ Piss ’ is one of several four-letter words less acceptable today than it has been in the past . |
| 22 | But I hope Graham will look at my bowling this winter in a different light to the way it has been in the past by England . |
| 23 | It seems that it is of continuing importance for women to be able to call upon relatives to assist them with child care , and that this still is a key element in women 's organization of their daily lives , as it has been in the past ( see for example Roberts , 1984 ) . |
| 24 | Child support will therefore not necessarily be any more reliable or regular in the future than it has been in the past . |
| 25 | It is likely that under those agreements extradition within Europe would in future be easier than it has been in the past , which I think the hon. Gentleman would welcome . |
| 26 | In other words not to provide for a continuing level of migration as it has been in the past . |
| 27 | I think the key to it has been in the past that if we can establish a platform with the front five and get our back row really involved with the support play that they can produce , Bath going backwards certainly do n't look as strong as when they are coming at us . |
| 28 | Yes , the going will be slow tonight but erm not as slow as it has been in the past erm so it should be good . |
| 29 | Nevertheless it seems that the eleventh-century history of princely houses was more mundane , more businesslike , than it had been in the past . |
| 30 | Edward IV and Henry VII made land revenue far more important than it had been in the past , until by 1509 it slightly exceeded the yield from customs . |