Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely that is what perestroika has been about these past five years ? |
| 2 | ‘ The liaison has been with all of the functional groups within the computer centre : analysis and programming , operations , user services , communications and technical support and data preparation . |
| 3 | Local Management of Schools has been to many of our schools . |
| 4 | For instance , Yadin Dudai in Jerusalem , amongst others , has exploited the behavioural and biochemical possibilities opened up by mutations amongst fruit flies ; for him and some other neurobiologists Drosophila has become as popular as it has been for most of this century for geneticists . |
| 5 | They are that the public expect Britain to be defended and want Labour to be what it has been for most of its history — a party prepared to provide resources commensurate with defending this country . |
| 6 | This assumption has been behind much of the conservative reaction to the ‘ Gorbachev phenomenon ’ . |
| 7 | For example , we all know that productivity growth in the UK has been inferior to West Germany 's over the post-war decades ; that product development has been behind that of Japan ; and that over many years the rates of growth of South Korea , Italy and East Germany were higher than the United Kingdom 's . |
| 8 | He has been like that for since he 's been with her he has |
| 9 | Brockbank said : ‘ It has been like that since day one , but many clubs are like that . ’ |
| 10 | He has been like this for around 10 months , and feeds normally . |
| 11 | I also understand that one of the street lights in Lower Dolphinholme is burning continuously and has been like this for some time . |
| 12 | Yesterday , he produced his second extraordinary escape act in succession by coming from behind to win 10-15 , 9-15 , 15-13 , 15-12 , 15-10 , against an opponent who has been in both of the last two world title-winning teams . |
| 13 | Getting him out of bed in the mornings in time for school became a real problem for his family when he 'd been up most of the night with pencil and note book . |
| 14 | That great audience assembled to hear a speaker quite unknown in the political world and the enthusiasm created was an eye-opener to me , and would have been to most of the Westminster hacks with whom I had previously associated public influence . ’ |
| 15 | The implications of that piece of grandiloquence would not have been at all to his taste , as anyone can see from reading a paragraph or two of any of his books . |
| 16 | This failure with this surprising machine would not have been at all like the failures of ordinary deterministic coin machines . |
| 17 | By a brilliant defence based on a clever choice of terrain that would have been beyond most of the other French generals at that time , de Castelnau saved the vital city of Nancy . |
| 18 | Tamsin , being half and half , could have been in any of them . |
| 19 | Arsenic was a common substance and could have been in some of the remedies Mrs Armstrong took . |
| 20 | Could the murderer have been from either of these ? ’ |
| 21 | He could have been behind any of the closed doors . |
| 22 | He added that disaffected factions within the BBC opposed to Mr Birt 's programme of reforms may have been behind some of the attempts to destabilise him . |
| 23 | It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana . |
| 24 | He 'd never have been like that in the old days . |
| 25 | They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more . |
| 26 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
| 27 | I had been up most of the night on surveillance and , dressed in ‘ raggies ’ in a seedy dockside pub outside my own police area , had posed as a ‘ driver ’ for a drug-dealer . |
| 28 | We talked about the possibility of his death , we talked about the possibility of him being permanently brain damaged , we talked about the happiness they had enjoyed together and how important it had been to both of them to find each other . |
| 29 | She had been to most of the early-morning markets as far as Hyères . |
| 30 | Duriez , who described himself as a pacifist , admitted that he had been to some of the raid locations . |