Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adv] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emphasis in his own later work , and of others who have followed him , has been increasingly on the most vulnerable . |
| 2 | Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time . |
| 3 | It is important to have been about for a very long time . |
| 4 | In March 1922 ‘ snobbish clerks ’ on the Moscow Kursk line , which had been on of the most revolutionary , in 1905 and 1917 , were refusing to attend meetings where common signalman and the like were to be found . |
| 5 | It was worse , in fact , than if she had been obviously of a more humble station , for a gentlewoman in her circumstances was instantly under suspicion of a fall from respectability . |
| 6 | The residents themselves recognised the move for some of the older , frailer people would be more difficult and those who had been there for the least time had agreed to go , he said . |
| 7 | Now please tell me if I 'm keeping you , I know I 've been here for a very long time |
| 8 | ( Lazing 's highly recommended if you 've been up for the 8.30am aerobics . |
| 9 | Er it 's partly using some questions that 've been around for a very long time but there 're some subtle variations and some new ones added in , okay ? |
| 10 | They have been around for a very long time , as I said , dating right back to Model Book 35 in fact , which appeared in 1982 . |
| 11 | On the one hand , ethnic minorities currently settled in Britain have been here for a relatively short period of time , and it seems that circumstances of migration and initial settlement are conditions under which support between siblings assumes greater significance than it might otherwise do — a point illustrated by the patterns of chain migration and of joint households which I discussed earlier in this chapter . |