Example sentences of "they have been [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |
| 32 | However , those who are unemployed , especially if they have been for some time , may find it is more important to send out as many letters as possible , in the hope of getting some response . |
| 33 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 34 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 35 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 36 | Supporters of gun control are in a stronger position now than they have been at any time since 1968 , after the shootings of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy . |
| 37 | But it may be that the things they have been through these past few hundred years have exaggerated some of their original characteristics . |
| 38 | It 's that sort of change that I think is extremely significant , and I think it happens for women very much at that stage , when they have been through those sorts of experiences themselves , so one way in which I think that we can change things is — and help people to change things for themselves — is very much to support and develop those kinds of second change erm access , returning to education , returning to work , type projects as very much part of mainstream education and employment , and I would like to see a much greater range of those sorts of projects available for people and erm a lot more government resources into supporting that kind of provision . |
| 39 | The later books are in large measure accurately described , and the experience of the assimilated Jew in Italy , where the Jews came to harm under Mussolini but where they were never the strangers they have been in several other countries , is summarised in a well-informed and pertinent fashion . |
| 40 | They have been in some ways too successful . |