Example sentences of "have been [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winter wheats are slightly backward because of cold weather , but the benefit of this has been disease-free crops with good root development . |
| 2 | As you will be aware there has been extensive discussions with NALGO in connection with the arrangements for the necessary Council Tax introduction . |
| 3 | The top rated American TV programme has been beguiling children for the last 13 years . |
| 4 | THIS popular seaside resort , beautifully set on a crescent-shaped sandy bay , has been welcoming visitors since the early days of seaside holidays . |
| 5 | Rob Wilson 's tackle shop in Brora has been welcoming anglers for more than fifty years . |
| 6 | Here , the manageress Giovanna has been welcoming guests for 30 years and prides herself on offering a simple , comfortable hotel and a good choice of menu . |
| 7 | The appeal has been five years in the hearing . |
| 8 | The show 's organisers and officials of the Canadian Hellenic Congress , an organisation of Greeks in Canada , say the exhibition has been five years in the making and that it reflects the excellent cultural ties between Greeks and Canadians . |
| 9 | The inter-church document tackling the issue of sectarianism has been five years in the making . |
| 10 | David Oliver , Editor of our sister journal Airforces Monthly , has been probing inconsistencies in MoD replies relating to the retirement of the Vulcan . |
| 11 | Vadinamia has its own ultra-tight security that has been frustrating spies for a long time . |
| 12 | One of the world 's greatest classical violinists has been surprising audiences at a top JAZZ club . |
| 13 | WE hear that there was a big attendance at the first meeting of the new Basingstoke branch of the League Against Cruel Sports , when the League 's information officer , Kevin Flack , told them : ‘ I believe that most people are opposed to hunting but it has been recent antics of the Quorn Hunt and publicity from the MacNamara Bill that has convinced them that something has to be done to put an end to their activities . ’ |
| 14 | In recent years , by far the most important item has been individual demands for back payment of overtime earnings following court decisions on the method of calculating the hourly overtime rate . |
| 15 | Latent inhibition will show context-specificity when the only training given has been non-reinforced presentations of the stimulus in a given context . |
| 16 | Outside the High Court after the award of £50,000 damages plus costs , the 59-year-old happily married father of three said : ‘ It has been three-and-a-half years of absolute hell . ’ |
| 17 | An additional complication to Rugby 's future has been legal writs for damages by Mal Malik , a former Coventry and Rugby flank-forward . |
| 18 | With Eliette von Karajan it has been thirty years of family life , with two daughters , Isabel and Arabel . |
| 19 | There has been 12 letters of objection to the final stretch to Ballyduggan Mill lodged and it is expected that a meeting between all the parties involved will take place to see if there is some way of reconciling the objections . |
| 20 | The district has been national finalists in the Britain in Bloom contest in the last four years and this has been achieved by the magnificent floral displays which can be seen throughout the summer months in our area . |
| 21 | The British public is increasingly distrustful of industry on environmental issues and there is rising support for the idea that " the polluter pays " , according to Bob Worcester , chairman of market research firm MORI , which has been tracking attitudes to the environment since 1969 . |
| 22 | The event has been 9 months in the making . |
| 23 | The only bother he 's had in Lothian Road has been hostile looks from casuals in the Burnt Post bar . |
| 24 | Mr Norris has been button-holing passengers about their voting intentions . |
| 25 | It has been 3 years in which my family were put through things they never ever deserved to be put through . |
| 26 | Lalande wrote of him in 1763 : ‘ Sisson has been several times in prison for failing to pay his workmen [ of whom Jesse Ramsden , q.v. , was one ] ; he starts many things and finishes nothing : he takes his instruments to the pawnbroker , where they have been seen selling for a tenth of their value . |
| 27 | A COLLECTION of unusual antiques that has been 30 years in the making will go under the hammer this weekend . |
| 28 | If only I 'd been 10 years of age again , I 'd have loved the ‘ Pirates Club ’ . |
| 29 | Well I I think the period that embraced my school days , you see I did n't leave till nineteen nineteen and th that meant there 'd been four years of war at school and the last year well , it ended in er nineteen eighteen , the war did , so only the last year , but it was full of patriotism and all the old scholars that had er served or suffered or been killed , their names were up . |
| 30 | ‘ There 'd been two heads on those pillows , ’ agreed Ethel , ‘ and two bodies between those sheets , however hard they tried to disguise it . ’ |