Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The best moments of my life have been with music . ’
2 The most complex and prolonged human/dolphin associations have been with bottlenose dolphins , but Doak thinks that they are by no means limited to this species .
3 Liverpool have been putting hard-tackling left-back Stig Bjorbye through his paces at Anfield , while members of Norway 's Under-21 side who beat England last month have been on trial at Leeds , Sheffield United , Oldham and Forest .
4 For the past six weeks at Bristol Crown Court three companies involved in the manufacture or supply of the gantry have been on trail .
5 The Paras have been jumping into one of the dropping zones on Salisbury Plain since first light , so the Scouts have been on standby on the DZ in case there should be any casualties .
6 Where only a proportion of the damage has occurred since we have been on cover , we should pay the cost of the underpinning , subject to the adequacy of the sum insured and the policy excess .
7 By this time the reader will have noticed , and perhaps wondered … the writer is a member of a large family , yet so far only four characters have been on parade : Mum , Dad , Sam and Carl .
8 Pray for the young people from QP who have been on mission or camp this summer .
9 They have been on exercise for a week , learning and practising the techniques of counterrevolutionary warfare in a rural setting .
10 The Lions have been on tour for a month . ’
11 Four planes have been on standy here for a number of days .
12 They have been on shopping trips , watched plenty of television and have even enjoyed visits to the Camelot theme park and Formby sands , courtesy of John Davies , another friend of Bob 's , who is currently out of work and has volunteered with his wife to take the Causevics on occasional days out .
13 Soviet strikes point to crisis of morale that threatens future of perestroika Broadcasts of parliament get more viewers than Agatha Christie films It is the first November 7 since the revolution that coal miners have been on strike .
14 It is , as far as can be remembered , the first November 7 since the revolution that coal miners have been on strike — the very core of the working class who made the revolution possible .
15 Up in the desolate Arctic region of Vorkuta , site of perhaps Stalin 's most infamous Gulag camp , miners in nine of the area 's 13 pits have been on strike for more than a week against dismal living conditions , and the bureaucracy of the Communist Party and Soviet government .
16 Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work .
17 A quarter of the country 's coal miners have been on strike for three weeks demanding the resignation of President Mikhail Gorbachev , the dissolution of the Soviet parliament and the transfer of power to the Federation Council , composed of the elected leaders of the 15 republics .
18 Within the balcony we 've got representatives from Tylers at Crawley , representatives of twenty three of our colleagues , who have been on strike for twenty weeks in defence of jobs , in defence of pay and equally important , in defence of safety standards
19 Hundreds of staff at polytechnic and further education colleges have been on strike in a protest over pay .
20 Many of Britain 's civil servants have been on strike in protest at what they see as moves towards privatisation which they believe could cost them their jobs .
21 More than 300 workers have been on strike since 29 January over a dispute about enforced lay-offs .
22 I have been on location around America rather than Hollywood .
23 When the Minister visits north Devon will he consider the matter of British equipment and pay a visit to RAF Chivenor , which is waiting for the SAR Westland helicopters that have been on order for two years ?
24 The fifty drawings and 250 prints comprise the collection and antiquarian book dealer Georg Hirzel ( 1867–1924 ) and have been on loan to the Leipzig Museum .
25 ‘ Degas to Matisse : The Maurice Wertheim Collection from the Harvard University Art Museums ’ ( 14 February-25 April ) comprises forty-three representational works of consistent high quality , collected by New York investment banker Maurice Wertheim , and bequeathed in 1950 to his alma mater , where they have been on display since 1974 .
26 Of the over three hundred entries , 30 short-listed by the assessors have been on display in Glasgow 's Princes Square , and are being shown at the RIBA in London until 3 March .
27 Glaxo Group Research has a range of policies to provide support to , and facilitate the easier return to work of , women who have been on maternity leave .
28 Available gasifiers are well-designed and economically competitive , but most have been on sale for 18 months or less .
29 In the past few days , tickets have been on sale to season-ticket holders and those with ticket stubs from selected previous matches .
30 Users of the ‘ Pentium-ready ’ personal computer systems that have been on sale since the middle of last year — Intel Corp 80486-based boxes with a Pentium upgrade socket — wo n't get their OverDrive Pentiums , code-named the P24T , which plugs into the socket , until 1994 .
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