Example sentences of "have [be] around [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 2 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 3 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |
| 4 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 5 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 6 | Research identified that retailers were using cheap methods of display which had been around since the 1950's . |
| 7 | Hand dragged furniture had been around since the 18th century . |
| 8 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 9 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 10 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 11 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 12 | Chairman before before you do finally er pack your bag and zoom off back to wherever it is you 're going , could I on behalf of the county council and all of our participants here today and those who 've been around in the last fortnight thank you and Miss Whittaker and your assistant able assistants er Mrs Binns and Dave in the programme office for the sterling work they 've done . |
| 13 | Lick and stick stamps have been around since the 1840s , but by the turn of the century it 's thought self-adhesives will be the norm . |
| 14 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 15 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 16 | In looking for the answers , let us begin with those citizens who have been around for the longest time — the elderly and those in later middle age . |
| 17 | I mean surely that is a subject that 's been around for a hundred years ? |
| 18 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 19 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |