Example sentences of "[noun] have been [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The task of loading and storing the data has been far from trivial ; for one thing , the total raw data in the SAS/LBS for Great Britain at all areal levels comes to some 6–7 gigabytes . |
| 2 | As in Wigston , few of the families that put down roots in the parish of Myddle during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had been there in earlier times ; the turnover of names between the 1370s poll tax returns and the subsidies levied in the reign of Henry VIII was equally remarkable in both parishes . |
| 3 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 4 | Only a few days before an ITV programme had been far from complimentary about some of the Salvation Army hostels . |
| 5 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |
| 6 | Eight key tasks are identified and work has been underway on these for some time . |
| 7 | Earlier in the day , Jeffrey had been far from happy to learn that the Scotland seven to be chosen from a pool of ten — Hong Kong have increased from nine to remain consistent with the World Cup format — would have around five hours between their ties tomorrow . |
| 8 | He linked the freedom of the foreign-owned press in Africa to the general principle of press freedom , but remarked that its effects had been far from encouraging : the press had done things that he personally was very unhappy about . |
| 9 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 10 | A certain narrow-mindedness has pervaded studies of electronic information as the focus has been predominately by national archives on the preservation of records about the national governments themselves . |
| 11 | ‘ The town has been here since 1210 . |
| 12 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 13 | And as the boat station had been there before nineteen sixty six , probably a hundred years before nineteen sixty six , it was then claimed that this person had adverse possession , which in short , is squatter 's rights . |
| 14 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 15 | Erm the n the net movements between Cleveland and North Yorkshire as a whole have been respectively for nineteen eighty eight , four hundred and fifty five persons , for nineteen eighty nine , two hundred and twenty nine persons , er for nineteen ninety , two hundred and forty persons , nineteen ninety one , three hundred and thirty seven persons , and for nineteen ninety three , because I missed the figures for ninety two for some reason , they 're not there , er five hundred and ninety nine . |
| 16 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |
| 17 | His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event . |
| 18 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 19 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 20 | The only certainty was that it was not Brian , for Brian had been away during that crucial week of Tina 's cycle , doing an electrical job in Aberdeen . |
| 21 | You think of the people , I mean , these people have been there for all those years |
| 22 | Some of the staff have been here for twenty years . |
| 23 | Aerospatiale and Socata have been there since 1911 and will probably be there for the next 80 years , whether they buy Piper or not . |
| 24 | ‘ Or maybe she just learned from a more rational neighbour that the real Delia has been abroad for six months . |
| 25 | ‘ Since its launch in 1989 , Drayton Asia 's investment performance has been significantly below that of Dragon , ’ the letter stated . |
| 26 | All I have ever known of love has been here in this house . |
| 27 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 28 | The operation had been far from easy , the cable being ‘ … manhandled out of the hold of a steamer , over a pulley and round a drum which measured the speed , and then several times round a brake drum before passing into the sea ’ .5 |
| 29 | Absenteeism and lack of reverence in church had been far from unknown before the Reformation ; indeed such charges were the most frequent cause of appearances before the Suffolk ecclesiastical courts in the fifteenth century . |
| 30 | In other fields — most notably those concerned with computers — both France and Britain have been far from successful . |