Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most dramatic increase has been in the former Soviet Union , where the area of land under forest rose by 70 million hectares — three times the size of Britain — over the past 25 years . |
| 2 | ‘ This place has been in the same family for over a hundred years , and it was going strong before that time . |
| 3 | A marvellous opportunity to visit a forge that has been in the same family for five generations to see a working blacksmith . |
| 4 | If your cash has been in the same account for some time , make sure it has n't been closed to new customers . |
| 5 | Has been in the same bank all the time . |
| 6 | Just five minutes walk from the centre of Bavaria 's leading resort , this first-class hotel has been in the same family for more than 300 years . |
| 7 | I suggested that help might come from friends who 'd been through the same scenario , or from genuinely sympathetic relatives ( but not critical ones ! ) . |
| 8 | It would encourage newcomers ; especially if they 'd been on a few walks and seen the problems . |
| 9 | We 'd been in the same form for two terms without really speaking because we had separate friends and in any case at St Edward 's you were seated according to your exam results at the end of the previous term , so it was n't likely we 'd be close . |
| 10 | Singer Richard Fairbrass , stormed at the duo at No.12 with Magic Friend : ‘ They could n't have been at the same show . |
| 11 | Or would it have been about the same ? |
| 12 | If I had n't been ‘ discovered ’ , as I suppose I must describe it , then I would have been on the same old path , up at Low Birk Hatt and miserable . |
| 13 | It would not come although it must have been on the same day as the trip to the cathedral and her aunt had undoubtedly been with her . |
| 14 | Effectively this means that the previous dealings must have been on the same terms and a consistent procedure must have been followed . |
| 15 | If it had n't been a yorker I 'd have looked an absolute idiot , I would n't have been in the same street , let alone cricket ground . |
| 16 | In the machine shop , without Victor Wilcox to escort her , Robyn was as conspicuous in her high-fashion boots , her cord breeches and her cream-coloured quilted jacket , as some rare animal , a white doe or a unicorn , would have been in the same place . |
| 17 | Amelia may not have been in the same league as the great adventurers who scale mountain peaks , cross oceans and the icy wastes of the Antarctic and Arctic or shoot the white water rapids of unnavigable rivers , but she was a real traveller , ranked among those who actually get up and go , sacrificing security and facing the cold disdain of their bank managers . |
| 18 | Little John Tomlins should have been in the same room . |
| 19 | I could have been in the same room with the murderer back at Livingstone Manor . |
| 20 | She groaned and turned over , hoping she would fall asleep again , but her brain insisted on relaying pictures of her twin , so vividly that Dana could have been in the same room . |
| 21 | Eventually ( it would later be established it must have been within a few minutes of six-thirty ) the car slowed to a halt . |
| 22 | Of course he understood , having been through the same gruesome ordeal . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't think it does anyone any good to have been on the same patch of ground for five hundred years . |
| 24 | Anthony Morris , QC , told Manchester Crown Court that Mr Foster died because he had the ‘ misfortune ’ to have been at the same secondary school as the gunman and had known him well for four years . |
| 25 | Thirdly , it is often impossible to tell from the inventory whether a person was poor or whether he was living in comfortable retirement , having already passed on most of his estate to his children ; a yeoman with very few possessions is likely to have been in the latter category . |
| 26 | If John had been of the same family as Jesus , moreover , his ‘ seal of approval ’ would have carried the additional authority of a royal warrant . |
| 27 | Tolonen had been of the same generation as the T'ang and they shared the same unspoken values . |
| 28 | In essence those statutory provisions had been to the same effect . |
| 29 | There was also what was to become a recurrent feature of Gilkes 's reports — as indeed it had been for a half a century already — regret at the parents ' lack of faith or courage , which resulted in boys leaving early and not going on to University . |
| 30 | Fosdyke was all alone , had been for a few days since I had dinner with him in fact . ’ |