Example sentences of "have [be] [noun pl] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly at the state of the talks with the T & G , we still have a long long way to go to reach this new goal and there 's a strong rumour that there has been discussions between Sir John Edmunds and Lord Bill Morris the name of the new union already and I think an apt title for the union at the moment would be Yugoslavia because we 're in ethnic groups , we are sections , we 've got the boiler makers who are still claiming things they lost ten years ago when they merged . |
| 2 | There 'd been services in St Simon and St Jude 's every day this week . |
| 3 | Because th th th th there , there 'd been statements from Mao until the end of nineteen forty five where he 's still talking about land to the tiller being some way off |
| 4 | So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do . |
| 5 | There were accusations of plagiarism , of cheating , of fabricating data ; there was name-calling in public as Fleischmann and Pons were called ‘ incompetent ’ and ‘ deluded ’ ; there were deep politics , paranoia and , by the end of the year , threats of writs being issued against the editor of a leading scientific journal and against one scientist whose experiments suggested that there had been errors in Pons ' laboratory . |
| 6 | She had been friends with Annie long enough to know when she was holding back on her . |
| 7 | There had been fears in Lithuania that Poland might claim part of its territory , including Vilnius . |
| 8 | There had been women in Pesth , some of them attractive even by Imperial standards , but they had been the wives or concubines of Burun 's officers , or else they had belonged to the Altun . |
| 9 | On 6 November I saw a delegation of small business men who had been customers of BCCI , and yesterday I saw representatives of the BCCI depositors protection association . |
| 10 | There had been calls for Belkheir 's resignation after the Algerian press pointed out that the " special intervention unit " charged with Boudiaf 's security came under Interior Ministry control . |
| 11 | In his autobiography he claimed that the family had been farmers at Long Eaton , Derbyshire , since the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | The Churchward family had been squires of Stoke Gabriel from the end of the fifteenth century . |
| 13 | Then I heard Dan Rather saying there had been explosions in Israel . |
| 14 | After the funeral , when they were eating the lunch he had arranged at the Black Lion in Wellingham High Street , Sara was approached by Mr. Crowther , Aunt Alicia 's solicitor and senior partner in Crowther , Boon and Crowther , who had been solicitors in Wellingham for three generations . |
| 15 | It is hard to escape the feeling that this proven hazard would not have been allowed to continue , poisoning children and adults , if the victims had been residents of Weybridge or Sloane Square rather than the Gorbals . |
| 16 | There had been reports on April 2 that a meeting to discuss the formation of a more representative government had broken down in disagreement between Crown Prince Saad and representatives of a coalition of merchant groups , Islamic parties and former members of parliament . |
| 17 | There had been reports on Feb. 16 that the Iranian government intended to renew its diplomatic peace initiatives following Iraq 's offer to withdraw from Kuwait . |
| 18 | There had been reports in October of intensified repression in Bhutan of ethnic Nepalese activists [ see p. 38534 ] . |
| 19 | I saw no trouble at the match , but I heard on TV afterwards that there had been fights in Waverly station before and after the match |
| 20 | Earlier , there had been disturbances in Snowdrop Street in the Kirkdale area of Liverpool where it is understood one of the youths being questioned was arrested . |
| 21 | True , they had been vassals of China for nine long centuries — but had n't their hearts " like iron and stone " enabled them at last to throw off the Chinese yoke when the Tang dynasty crumbled ? |
| 22 | All three had been supporters of Zhao Ziyang , the former party general secretary who had been held under house arrest since his dismissal in June 1989 . |
| 23 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 24 | A report on Russian radio of April 26 said that there had been clashes in Shusha and Agdam between Azerbaijani government troops and armed units of the Azerbaijani Popular Front . |
| 25 | In the years between the wars G. K. Chesterton and Evelyn Waugh had been converts to Rome . |
| 26 | Prior to this date there had been suggestions from London that the miners in the north had been acting more in their own interests than the society 's . |
| 27 | If the preceding analysis is correct , then Gundovald 's support can be seen to depend on three different groups : there were members of Childebert 's court , seemingly anxious to keep their options open until the king was recognized as being of an age to rule ; there were men who had been followers of Guntram , but whose positions had been compromised ; and finally there were military leaders who had been in the service of Chilperic , but who had been too far from court at the time of his murder to ensure their survival under Chlothar II , whose own succession could scarcely be taken for granted . |
| 28 | His family had been landowners in Wales and Shropshire . |
| 29 | The Prussians had been allies of Britain at Waterloo , and preindustrial , Biedermeier , Germany was very attractive to many Britons . |
| 30 | The reason I 'm here is I 've been friends with Jake ever since we met over a beer or three in Germany during my Jam days , I admire him as a lyricist and I think the group has a valid future . ’ |