Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This siter has been here a long time and is part of the area . |
| 2 | The upshot of the erm the year of course has been rather a healthy lot of financial ratios . |
| 3 | Erm , er I 'll I 'll close it at two , but perhaps I could ask the the applicants erm , I mean I appreciate that obviously erm it er it economy in in in obviously in what you 're doing , but I think it it it would be fairly obviously to , I mean it 's been stated that that that that residents nearby would prefer either two bungalows or a house and a bungalow , and I think er that certainly erm new developments adjacent to where you are proposing these are in fact all bungalows , er with the exception of the mill , which of course has been there a long time , er all those on that side of the road , both those two built and those two proposed are a bungalow or a semi bungalow , er and so erm you can see that obviously it is that the height of these buildings , it is erm causing the offence , largely , erm I I think , I mean obviously you will want to main you know , optimize your er development , but whether er a scheme with two bungalows that they would n't be four bedroomed bungalows , because there would n't be room for two of the four two four bedroomed bungalows , erm |
| 4 | Belmodes had been around a long time . |
| 5 | A demand for dolphin meat for human consumption has been only a recent trend , but high transport costs from the remote Iki Island made the export of edible dolphin meat uneconomic . |
| 6 | Ensign Piper had been only a short time in Australia when he volunteered for duty in the convict settlement on Norfolk Island . |
| 7 | Aisha had been both a tribal companion to the Sheikha and a ‘ nanny ’ to her children . |
| 8 | For him this convenience has been largely a negative factor for he thought of America as offering no other comparable diversion ; there were ‘ no beer gardens — no public concerts ’ and the question he asked was ‘ Who wants to sit at home and play bridge every night ? ’ |
| 9 | But as I 've already mentioned distributed database theory has been around a long time . |
| 10 | His father 's been dead a long time and he has-had — two brothers . ’ |
| 11 | The disruptions caused by newcomers have been merely a tangible symptom of this change . |
| 12 | In most other matters , since 1945 , Britain has been effectively a dependent state , whether in peace or in war , and the dominance of British fiction across the world is unmatched by almost everything else , though some might hopefully seek exceptions in education , broadcasting and financial services like marine insurance . |
| 13 | She did n't want them to know that her life had been quite a privileged one . |
| 14 | Yet one can not escape the feeling that if Humanae Vitae had been essentially a reasoned condemnation of abortion , the witness of the Church would have been all the more powerful . |
| 15 | At first , like her many other activities , the home maintenance course at the Adult Education Centre had been just a desperate device to take her away from the boredom of George . |
| 16 | Paul 's verdict : Bags have been around a long time now and Rohan can justifiably claim to have prompted other companies to come up with versions of their original . |
| 17 | There was a tendency for the highly born to be preferred to the prince bishoprics of Germany ; and in the tenth and early eleventh centuries training to knightly pursuits had been almost a necessary qualification for a successful German bishop . |
| 18 | The transfer arrangements for Holly and Demyonov had been basically a Foreign and Commonwealth matter , and rightly so . |
| 19 | For only I and one other person in that courtroom knew the truth , knew that the hand which had dispatched William had been neither a female hand nor a male one , but the hand of a terrible neuter thing ! |
| 20 | According to The Famous Grouse Director , Matthew Gloag , the company 's interest in the next year 's tournament in Edinburgh had been almost a foregone conclusion due to the enormous benefits of having been involved in the 1991 World Cup . |
| 21 | We 're all well and your mother has been out a good deal . |
| 22 | Since the 1950s and the failure of the APL to gain a foothold in Belfast , the Nationalist Party had been mainly a rural phenomenon . |