Example sentences of "have [adv] been [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The differences have rarely been about content . |
| 2 | This is a much older problem and one which precedes the rise of environmentalism , because in addition to the environmental lobby the exclusive rights of the farmer have long been under threat from another source — the massed ranks of the urban population , intent on using the countryside as a source of recreation and determined to gain access to what they consider to be semi-public territory . |
| 3 | These are questions that have long been of concern . |
| 4 | These halfway conditions have long been of interest , though until recently mainly among psychoanalysts or other writers outside mainstream psychiatry . |
| 5 | Certainly the phrases " the Bleiburg Massacre " and " the Bleiburg Tragedy " have long been in currency , and have been used by historians sympathetic to the Croats such as Prcela and Guldescu in Operation slaughterhouse : Eyewitness Accounts of Post-war Massacres in Yugoslavia ( Dorrance , 1970 ) . |
| 6 | I rarely speak or am active on guillotine motions and resulting business arrangements on timing , because in general I have long been in favour of timetabling all Bills from the start . |
| 7 | Chinese rugs have long been in tune with Western colour schemes , and a growing number of Anatolian groups are now producing traditional and Caucasian designs in much softer shades . |
| 8 | We have all been to school , and many have children at school . |
| 9 | Ian Lloyd Jones , Chris Jex , C. Allen and R. Wright have all been at work in the Llanberis slate quarries , although their findings are rather too numerous to record in detail . |
| 10 | I should say that these errors have all been without exception quite trivial in themselves . |
| 11 | Finally , good wishes for a quick return to health to Audrey Foster , Hilda Lodge and Doris Patten , who have all been in hospital . |
| 12 | InterCity has its own clear identity , though the greatest achievements have perhaps been with Network SouthEast , where the tide has really turned , and in Provincial with its own increasing network of imaginative expresses often resulting from stringing several services together . |
| 13 | If we have only been on cover for a short time and it is clear that the majority of the damage occurred before we came on cover , the claim should be referred to the previous insurers . |
| 14 | Struggling to make himself heard above the chants of the crowd , the manager said : ‘ I have only been on Teesside for ten months , but thank you for making it memorable so far . |
| 15 | We have only been in post for three weeks , but this is our second confrontation with Fred . |
| 16 | I also feel it was a great honour being a woman and having achieved it in such a short space of time as I have only been in hairdressing for around six years . |
| 17 | Although the requirements concerning the environmental suitability of an operating centre have only been in force since June 1984 , some interesting cases have already arisen on their interpretation . |
| 18 | Similarly , if it is found that 45 per cent of boys admitted to a regional observation and assessment centre have already been in prison or custody , there is little point in promoting the value of a punitive stance to their behaviour . |
| 19 | Here long vehicles which have already been in traffic , as distinguished from new coaches , are mainly dealt with . |
| 20 | West Mercia police have already been in touch with nine other forces and set up a committee covering the west and south of England , the Midlands and Wales to prevent any more Castlemorton style gatherings . |
| 21 | We have already been in touch with two GP practices in Middlesbrough to see how much of the medical history we can pick up , and shall be doing the same in Sunderland . |
| 22 | Many smaller firms in Darlington have already been in touch with me about the jobs they say are being put at risk . ’ |
| 23 | The reasons given for these sales are that the Museum has limited storage space in its present building , and that the works in question have not been on exhibition for some considerable time , or duplicate existing holdings . |
| 24 | On 21 May , Christie 's New York will sell thirty-one Italian paintings from the Getty 's collection , most of which have not been on view for many years either due to their unsatisfactory condition or their downgraded status : a ‘ Rest on the Flight into Egypt ’ was described in 1963 as ‘ the greatest reward for visitors to the collection … by Orazio Gentileschi , a Caravaggesque masterpiece by an artist who had learned the lesson of realism ’ , only to be dubbed a later copy , probably Francesco Gentileschi , in the opinion of R.W. Bissel , the leading authority on the artist ( est. $50–70,000 ) . |
| 25 | These initiatives , however , have not been without criticism . |
| 26 | ‘ I have not been to Service these few years , ’ she said . |
| 27 | His magnificent gifts of drawing — not exaggerating — character and of getting an atmosphere have so worked that few of us have not been to sea in frigates before the age of eighteen and come in some way in contact with non-comfortable men and women . |
| 28 | We 've been in touch with all the local schools in the in the Mansfield area er we 've followed up inquiries of girls that have not been at school and so on and er these er have led to er to nothing . |
| 29 | Even if you decide you have not been at risk in the past , you seriously need to consider safer sex to protect yourself and your partners in the future from HIV . |
| 30 | Describing the plight of Somali children , it explains : ’ Many of them have not been in school for several years when they arrive in this country ’ . |