Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I have been with the church for ten years now . ’ |
| 5 | Should this happen , you may be entitled to compensation providing you have been with the firm for more than two years . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ All the servants at the hacienda have been with the count for years , some since he was a child . ’ |
| 9 | I take it a number of er execs have been with the company for a |
| 10 | ‘ I have been with the club for 10 weeks and sometimes it feels like 10 years . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Think how long BBC2 and Channel 4 have been on the air and they still have barely 10 per cent of the British audience . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Aldermaston-based Blue Circle Industries ' group car fleet manager Norman Gross says : ‘ Diesels have been on the car choice list for some time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Hot metal ’ glue guns have been on the d-i-y market for some time . |
| 20 | And if they have been on the market the terms have often been unreasonable , with little attempt made to advertise them . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Managers have not , on the whole , been predisposed to numerically oriented analysis , clinicians have not pushed for cost or outcome data preferring to focus upon patient care processes and cash inputs have been on the basis of fairly crude recurring allocations . |
| 23 | Some of the claims have been on the basis of debatable information , and all have been highly selective and have only drawn attention to the adverse elements of research whilst ignoring much encouraging , positive information . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 27 | When we have been on the losing side in county or Test cricket nothing has been said . |
| 28 | Mediocre modern copies of it do however exist , some in and around Bologna , while others have been on the market and yet others are in museums ( Amsterdam , Detroit ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The headhunters have been on the warpath again : Tucson , Arizona-based Artisoft Inc reports that William Baker submitted his resignations as chief financial officer , ‘ to pursue other opportunities ’ . |