Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A teacher who has been away on a short course including elements of both these skills , and can therefore give useful general advice . |
| 2 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 3 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 4 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | The scene at the offices of BAeSEMA , the hi-tech computer design group , may have been more like a Blue Peter set than a serious example of the latest in navy design , but Adml Eaton appeared suitably impressed . |
| 11 | It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission . |
| 12 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 13 | She had been away on a little holiday in Spain and knew nothing . |
| 14 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 15 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 16 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 17 | He had been neither to a great school nor to a university . |
| 18 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 19 | Further , Curtis had informed Grant that the word on the streets was that the recent outbreak of violence and killing had been all about a territorial dispute between rival Triad and Mafia gangs . |
| 20 | She had been out with a young lawyer once , a bumptious and ambitious man , and a boring one . |
| 21 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 22 | The cheap attempt at humour had been too like a treacherous repudiation of Timmy whom he loved . |
| 23 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 24 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |
| 25 | Oh , they 've been here about a few years now . |
| 26 | Well the , the er the Guilds I can speak now because I 've been up to a higher level , I 've been on the section and Birmingham is a very big area . |
| 27 | We 've been away for a long time . |
| 28 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We 've been apart for a long time . |
| 30 | 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 . |