Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rocastle began the first Euro tie in Stuttgart but was substituted at half-time , and all his other five appearances have been as a replacement . |
| 2 | And we believe that several murders have been as a result of that sort of tension . |
| 3 | Most do not qualify for redundancy pay , pensions , sick pay or national-insurance benefits until they have been with a firm for two years . |
| 4 | Okay Now as those of you who have been on a course will know er on a training course one thing I particularly ask you and we all do is to be open minded . |
| 5 | It 's the first time we have been on a coach holiday and we were a bit apprehensive . |
| 6 | Police in the Co Armagh area have been on a state of alert since a massive IRA bomb devastated the centre of nearby Lurgan in March last year . |
| 7 | We have been on a trip to Cliff College in Derbyshire . |
| 8 | The women at the sit-in issued the following appeal : ’ On the occasion of International Women 's Day , we , the Palestinian Women have been on a hunger strike since February 23 , 1989 in solidarity with our sons who have been holding hunger strikes in Israeli jails in protest against their inhuman prison conditions . |
| 9 | He told US financial markets that have been on a roller-coaster in anticipation of his victory that although he had campaigned on a message of economic growth he understood the importance of stability . |
| 10 | For example , I have been at a venue like the Marquee club to check out a band for a record company and have also watched 30 minutes of the first act . |
| 11 | Only a tiny percentage of students I have ever met have been to a seminar or a lecture . |
| 12 | We have been to a couple of films here . |
| 13 | ‘ You have been to a physician , I see . |
| 14 | You have been to a tournament and an auto-da-fé already , and if you had not embarrassed my son by fainting at the latter event you would have been presented to King Sebastian himself . " |
| 15 | ‘ Mrs. Bonnard and I have been to a concert in Aldeburgh . ’ |
| 16 | Here in Scotland I 'm old enough to get married without my parent 's permission , and have been for a year . |
| 17 | If two systems have been for a period of time in dynamical isolation from each other , then a measurement on the first system can produce no real change in the second . |
| 18 | Boozy Dennett — who earns £600 a week with his dummy Chick — added : ‘ I have been for a walk to have a think and went back , but it 's getting worse . ’ |
| 19 | Some elderly people have been through a divorce leaving a residue of ambivalent feelings and some social isolation ( Hunt , 1978 , Table 12:8:1 ) . |
| 20 | If you have been through a divorce , you must have asked yourself , what if I 'd handled things differently ? |
| 21 | ‘ Ronnie Moran and Roy Evans have been through a lot and seen a lot of players come and go . |
| 22 | You and your body have been through a lot of stressful experiences , both good and bad , and it could be as long as two weeks before you feel like doing anything except the most gently of runs . |
| 23 | You and Brian have been through a lot , living in different emergency housing places . |
| 24 | WE have been through a lot in the press . |
| 25 | ‘ They are old friends and they have been through a lot worse than this over the years . |
| 26 | ‘ But he and Jerry have been through a lot together and I 'm sure they will sort things out , ’ he added . |
| 27 | ‘ His other wins have been by a head , so two lengths is a bit of a bonus . |
| 28 | ‘ Valerie and I have been in a relationship for five years now . |
| 29 | Irvine , California-based Western Digital Corp warns that earnings per share for the third quarter to March 27 will be ‘ significantly below ’ consensus analysts ' expectations which have been in a range of $0.20 to $0.26 a share , as a direct result of severe price declines in the 3.5″ hard disk drive business : the company says it does not see a significant decline in unit demand and that demand from its key OEM customers is getting stronger and says it is comfortable with revised analyst estimates , in the $0.05 to $0.10 per share range ; ‘ To the best of our ability we will not participate ’ in the price wars , it said . |
| 30 | It applies to all goods in the categories listed in the box , irrespective of the time they have been in a country . |