Example sentences of "have [be] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Having been exporters for decades , Japan 's car makers are at last becoming real multinationals , with factories all over the world . |
| 32 | Moreover , while they do show that official statistics tend to underestimate the amount of crime , it is likely that victim studies also under-record the amount — mostly because people can only report having been victims of crime if they know that they have been victimised . |
| 33 | Off Ian pedalled , to arrive at the pub a few seconds before Sally , but having been companions in adversity throughout the whole way , neither was going to claim outright victory , so agreed to declare a draw . |
| 34 | As the majority seem to have been charges on benefices , the two enjoyed by the rector of Marsh Gibbon were additional to his living and presumably from a different source . |
| 35 | The Collector had shown such enthusiasm for its hollow wonders that he himself had been tempted and misled ; he had allowed his own small stirrings of doubt , which he recognized now to have been stirrings of conscience , to be smothered . |
| 36 | Before the War , many large consumers had generated their own electricity ( 45 per cent of industrial electricity came from self-generation in 1938 ) , and some of the larger firms , such as ICI and Ford , had been pioneers in generation technology . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Before Rope Thrower subdued the Great Chief Manuelito — among whose lieutenants was Hawk 's many-times-great grandfather Armijo — the Navaho had been herders of horses and cattle , cultivators of corn , pumpkins , wheat and melons and famous for their groves of peach trees . |
| 39 | But here it is epigraphy which has added most strikingly to our knowledge : as early as Herodotus ' day there had been Persians with names like Megabates at Halikarnassus ( ML 32 ) , and new inscriptions from fourth-century Labraunda , a sanctuary in Persian-held Karia , attest the Iranian proper names Phrathethnes and Ariarames ( Inscriptions of Labraunda 77 ; 28 ) . |
| 40 | She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years . |
| 41 | She had been friends with Annie long enough to know when she was holding back on her . |
| 42 | The Davises had originally come from Grenada and the Carlsons had got to know them because their eldest child and Daryl had been friends at school . |
| 43 | Substantial parts of the urban population were better off in material terms and there had been changes in attitudes . |
| 44 | There had been changes in technology , in the workforce and in the class system . |
| 45 | There had been fears in Lithuania that Poland might claim part of its territory , including Vilnius . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | Even here , in this host , since Murray 's departure , there had been difficulties of command . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | In his autobiography he claimed that the family had been farmers at Long Eaton , Derbyshire , since the eighteenth century . |
| 51 | , Peter ( 1806–1883 ) , industrial chemist and alum manufacturer , was born 19 February 1806 in Brechin , Forfarshire , Scotland , the son of a hand-loom weaver of Brechin , and his wife , whose family had been farmers for generations . |
| 52 | In the event there had been complications during labour and the baby was born by caesarean section while she was under general anaesthetic . |
| 53 | The Churchward family had been squires of Stoke Gabriel from the end of the fifteenth century . |
| 54 | For the East Germans the Poles had been objects of contempt for most of Prussian history , and the loss of land to them was an insult that was not to be swallowed , but would instead produce a festering sense of indignity , shame and anger . |
| 55 | Then I heard Dan Rather saying there had been explosions in Israel . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | The case aroused public disquiet as demonstrating that Evans 's conviction and execution had been miscarriages of justice ; there were two inquiries , and after the second Evans was granted a posthumous free pardon . |
| 59 | Suffolk Wildlife Trust director Derek Moore said there had been reports of rabbits and other creatures being shot at by four-wheel drive enthusiasts as the vehicles moved around the ness . |
| 60 | 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 . |