Example sentences of "men have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 14 October , 1969 TONY BENN records in his diary : ‘ In the evening Caroline and I went to Number 10 for a dinner for the American astronauts , the first three men to have been on the moon . |
| 2 | The fact that both men had been at Livingstone Manor intrigued him . |
| 3 | By April 1986 , 186,711 men had been without work for more than five years , a sum nearly five times greater than the same group four decades earlier . |
| 4 | Mr Mark Davies , NUM branch secretary , said the trapped men had been in high spirits throughout their ordeal , singing and joking and , at times , trying to move rubble themselves . |
| 5 | The men had been in unknown country , chasing the boar uphill , when the rule is to chase downhill only . |
| 6 | At Allen Street both men had been in the habit of going on the cruise and the regular traffic of sailors and ‘ rough trade ’ had caused comment among their neighbours . |
| 7 | Almost all of these men had been in psychiatric hospitals at some time in their lives , especially the younger ones . |
| 8 | SWAPO says its men had been in Namibia all along . |
| 9 | Police believe the two men had been in the area for some time possibly in a blue transit van which had ladders on its roof . |
| 10 | Some field men have been in the job long enough to have seen the protection of the environment become a matter of considerable public concern . |