Example sentences of "an [noun] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stated that a man with an accent had been to his shop at about 1.30pm on 22 June . |
| 2 | It was suggested that one of the reasons for this was that his main work as an advocate had been on behalf of trade unions , and on one occasion he had walked out of the National Industrial Relations Court in protest at the judge . |
| 3 | An ancestor had been to the crusades , another had captured Harry Hotspur at the Battle of Otterburn in 1388 , and a Count Montgomerie had accidentally killed King Henry II of France in a jousting contest . |
| 4 | The protection is acquired once an employee has been in a particular employment for two years , though there are special rules concerning part-time employees and for calculating the date up to which the continuous employment is measured . |
| 5 | It would have been an education to have been in the House when the Minister spoke . |
| 6 | In the example of Alex in the chapter no allowance was made for the fact that an item had been in use for some time . |
| 7 | And why should any criminal have co-operated in this process of falsification unless an inducement had been on offer ? |