Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the limited resources available at our disposal we have not been able to build too many expert systems and most of these have been on a small scale . |
| 2 | THE TWO eldest sons of the managing director of Kuwait Shipbuilding and Repairyard Company [ KSRC ] — a joint venture between the Kuwait Oil Company and Wood Group engineering Contractors — have been on a three-week fact-finding visit to Wood Group . |
| 3 | The teams have been on a rigorous training schedule for the hundred mile long test of skill and stamina . |
| 4 | The teams have been on a rigorous training schedule for the hundred mile long test of skill and stamina . |
| 5 | Of these four have been on a surgical waiting list for a median f 9.5 months ( range five to 14 ) . |
| 6 | We have been on a high speed , yeah . |
| 7 | ‘ Lower interest rates have contributed to a pick-up in the growth of narrow money , while retail sales have been on a steady upward trend for almost a year . |
| 8 | For example , imagine the situation where you have been on a strict , very low calorie diet for a month or so . |
| 9 | We were there , too , as we have been on the first weekend of June in each of the past four years ; the roistering boys whose fever for drink and song has been jaded , ever so slightly , by contemplation of middle age and the fingering of indigestion tablets . |
| 10 | On the other hand , though , it has to be said that some of the local urban excitements have been on the tame side recently : a swimming pool murder , an outbreak of cholesterol war between rival pizza outlets , the car that drove into the non-drive-in dry cleaners , and so on . |
| 11 | Mr V.P. Singh outwitted them all with his choice of the mufti , a gesture of reconciliation to the nation 's 100million Muslims , who have been on the receiving end of bloody communal violence in north India . |
| 12 | Kirk Douglas 's reputation for being difficult has , in recent years , become something of a joke , even for those who have been on the receiving end of his temperament . |
| 13 | Recently , however , two small-scale studies have been completed which take on board the perceptions and experiences of parents who have been on the receiving end of child protection interventions . |
| 14 | A large number of places , particularly the smaller cities and towns of southern England , have been on the receiving end of all three major migration streams , while at the other extreme the large cities , particularly those in northern England and Scotland ( the ‘ urban north ’ ) , have acted as the main reservoir from which these flows have been drawn . |
| 15 | Members who have been on the Public Accounts Committee , as I have , will know all about virement , which is not a recondite issue but a practical one . |
| 16 | In addition , the proximity of the Survey to the University ( they have been on the same site since 1975 ) led to contacts between their respective staffs , with a cross-fertilisation of ideas . |
| 17 | When we have been on the losing side in county or Test cricket nothing has been said . |
| 18 | Traditional budgets have been on an annual time-scale . |
| 19 | For nominal Christians it is perhaps only the third time they have been at a religious service ; the other two being their baptism and marriage . |
| 20 | Technological developments have been at a fast pace since the 1950s . |
| 21 | It turns out that both ladies have been at the Rossellini anti-wrinkle juice — with increasingly disastrous consequences . |
| 22 | The conservatives who have been the most vocal advocates of alliance with the US and opponents of communist totalitarianism , have been at the same time among the most strident supporters of Japanese rearmament and the revival of ‘ traditional values ’ . |
| 23 | Delegates are still addressed as brother , sister , or comrade , but this year there are electronic signs in the hall giving the speaker 's name — as there have been at the Conservative conference for quite a while . |
| 24 | For it was the procedures and practices that have been at the very core of racing tradition for generations that were on trial here , and there was little realistic chance that they should have been found wanting . |
| 25 | I have been to every Metropolitan police station , from Islington in the north to Bow Street in the west . |
| 26 | To the urban dweller , all woods look the same , but in landscape terms we must be careful to distinguish between the wildwood ( the remnant or successor of the natural or semi-natural woodland of Britain — which certainly does not exist anywhere today and probably has not since the Roman period ) and woods which have been to a greater or lesser degree managed for the production of timber and wood ( Fig. 63 ) . |
| 27 | We have been to a few other Holiday sites/parks , but none came up to the standard of HIGHFIELD HOLIDAY PARK . |
| 28 | I have been to a large number of conferences and met many general practitioners , including many from my hon. Friend 's district . |
| 29 | ‘ These good people have been to an enormous amount of trouble on my behalf , and I am sure I shall be quite unable to do justice to their generous provision . ’ |
| 30 | Whether you do n't know an opera at all or whether it is an old friend , you will still enjoy the show all the more if you have been to the pre-performance talk . |