Example sentences of "have [be] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Existing borrowers who have been with the society for five years or more may get a reduction in their interest rate if they have never been in arrears . |
| 2 | I have been with the church for ten years now . ’ |
| 3 | Many of the present team have been with the organisation at least since 1974 when Mr d'Ancona , an assistant secretary with the Department of Energy at the time , was asked to implement a political decision to transfer the headquarters of the fledgling organisation from London to Glasgow . |
| 4 | Another approach to the competence question has been to ask clients , retrospectively , how satisfied they have been with the service they have had ( Rosenthal 1974 ) . |
| 5 | I take it a number of er execs have been with the company for a |
| 6 | John Allen , chief negotiator for the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union , said : ‘ It is disgraceful that these workers , many of whom have been with the company all their working life , are just thrown on the scrap heap , while the Government sits on its hands and does nothing . ’ |
| 7 | Should this happen , you may be entitled to compensation providing you have been with the firm for more than two years . |
| 8 | ‘ All the servants at the hacienda have been with the count for years , some since he was a child . ’ |
| 9 | Another major agency , Brook Street Bureau , has recently offered employee status and the guarantee of work to certain of its temporary office workers , those with " top skills , wide experience and who have been with the agency for at least three months " ( see Financial Times , 12/4/88 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ I have been with the club for 10 weeks and sometimes it feels like 10 years . |
| 11 | He 's been in it for five years ( only he and Jean Boht have been with the show from the beginning ) and he 's proud of that , he says . |
| 12 | Apparently , most hunts begin and end high in the mountains , far away from any village , and all those present at the kill have been with the hunt throughout . |
| 13 | While unemployment figures in Northern Ireland have been on the increase , they have not accelerated at anything like the rate in the usually prosperous south-east of England . |
| 14 | That would allow a tremendous movement of people from under-utilised accommodation to smaller accommodation and would allow many people who have been on the waiting list for council houses for many years to be moved into smaller accommodation . |
| 15 | Women who have been on the Pill may have nutritional deficiencies ( see p 260 ) and you may wish to take a nutritional supplement of the kind described on p 330 . |
| 16 | Much of the blame must be laid at the door of the disorganised America 's Cup Organising Committee , who for the past 10 months have been on the brink of bankruptcy . |
| 17 | ‘ There is no Gook or Kraut or Nip for this war ’ , he writes , ‘ and the only Iraqi jokes I 've heard have been on the telephone from back home ’ . |
| 18 | Nor has it always been the chub which were taken from the bottom ; several times the barbel have been on the bottom and the chub hovering above them . |
| 19 | I have been on the council for three or four years , perhaps one of the more outspoken ones . ’ |
| 20 | WHILE most British eyes have been on the election of a new Westminster parliament , a 500-member pensioner 's parliament from all 12 countries of the European Community has called for better pensions throughout the EC . |
| 21 | The majority of suggestions have been on the lines that there should be a one- or two-year period in which it should be possible for the capital of discretionary trusts to be distributed tax free provided the settlement was made before 26th March 1974 and the result of the distribution was that there would be either absolute entitlement to the property or an interest in possessing it . |
| 22 | The views of the CBI could scarcely be clearer than they have been on the subject of the minimum wage . |
| 23 | We there 's Don and myself two individuals who have been on the course for incident training with Fire Brigade . |
| 24 | The scheme will be launched at Wrexham Guildhall on November 23 and borough council tourism staff , who have been on the course , are enthusiastic . |
| 25 | The Queen harmony vocal idea was pretty much fully developed even on your first album , and it seems like the most significant developments since have been on the part of technology catching up . |
| 26 | There are now almost 50,000 people in the region who have been on the dole for more than a year . |
| 27 | ‘ Think how long BBC2 and Channel 4 have been on the air and they still have barely 10 per cent of the British audience . |
| 28 | These have been on the whole successful this year with only one cancellation the Quiz Night . |
| 29 | These have been on the whole successful this year with only one cancellation the Quiz Night . |
| 30 | More recently I have been on the phone to Minsk , Nottingham 's twin town , in connection with the Lord Mayor 's appeal for aid to the victims of Chernobyl . |