Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must 've been out at the wrong time . |
| 2 | The reason for this discrepancy is not known ; it might be because there are short-term fluctuations in the rate of lava eruption and that recently the rate has been well below the long-term average . |
| 3 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 4 | A teacher who has been away on a short course including elements of both these skills , and can therefore give useful general advice . |
| 5 | Our peasant is starting off today to Roslavl' , 55 miles away , in order to see her soldier son who has been away in the Civil War , and is passing with his peacetime unit by train tomorrow from Briansk further south to the city of Smolensk with an hour 's stop in Roslavl' . |
| 6 | The recession has hit all industries and acting has been right in the thick of it . |
| 7 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 8 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 9 | Even if the latter is true , it does not automatically translate into increases in higher level educational streams ; in some countries the main growth at the 16–19 stage has been not in the pre-academic general streams , but in the intermediate ‘ technical ’ ones ( Squires 1989a ) . |
| 10 | The British people have not been allowed to express their views through a referendum , although the trend in opinion as measured by opinion polls has been firmly against a Federalist structure . |
| 11 | Emphasis has been more towards the local scale because of the demand for soil maps in relation to agricultural and other land use purposes . |
| 12 | I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months . |
| 13 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 14 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 15 | This has been accomplished in Switzerland with such precision in the past that involuntary unemployment has been often in the low hundreds . |
| 16 | In Ivory Coast the transfer of ownership has been essentially from the foreign private investor to the local private investor : government remains the owner of 50 per cent of corporate capital ( as it has been since the 1960s ) and the foreign investors ' share has been reduced to 30 per cent , with the local private sector taking the remainder . |
| 17 | It has been nigh on a full month since we first made a landfall on to the north shore : since we rode in the longboat on the crest of the shining surf and I set my foot withal on this fair land in the name of the King . |
| 18 | The Yorkshire captain has been out with a broken finger since the opening day of the championship season and it was thought he would not be fit until next week . |
| 19 | All being well , the skies will part once or twice during the festival — only the second time the event has been out in the open air . |
| 20 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 21 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 22 | He 'd been right about the entire day : the fountains in Rome , the quiet beauty of the little villages they passed and the gentle sweep of the campagna . |
| 23 | I 'd been right about the biological cleaners . |
| 24 | And she 'd been right about the red roses . |
| 25 | She 'd been all over the Far East |
| 26 | If you 'd been quicker over the refining equipment — ‘ |
| 27 | The Otago method may have been slightly below the classical tackling methods of attack , especially from first-phase , but Mains developed a special skill that was to have all his forwards , bit men and small , all very mobile and skilled at handling , retaining or winning the ball on the ground . |
| 28 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
| 29 | ‘ You must have been up with the famous Ord Gaunt ? ’ says the man whose name Howard did n't quite catch , and the dense Middle English blackletter in which the words are uttered exactly matches their resonant profundity . |
| 30 | He 's as sane as you or I. He 's a romantic at heart , a born adventurer ; a couple of hundred years ago and he 'd have been somewhere on the other side of the world building up the odd empire . ’ |