Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That truck has been there at least three days . ’ |
| 2 | This change has been chiefly in the direction of the broadening of its outlook on life . ’ |
| 3 | Seismic operations have been underway since late 1990 with more than 4,000 km recorded so far . |
| 4 | For the last fortnight some prisoners have been here in person . |
| 5 | That sort of knee-jerk anticlericalism has been out of date for years . ’ |
| 6 | This technique has been around as a possibility for these machines for years , dating right back to the very early 1970s and the S42 , or ‘ peg-board ’ machines . |
| 7 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
| 8 | You see , some girl 's been out for a drink , or to a disco , met a fella , the fella invites her back , she goes , and things go a bit further than she intended . |
| 9 | The contributions to this issue have been mainly from the London staff but this should be more balanced next issue as I 'll be chasing you lot in Canterbury for contributions . |
| 10 | Now he he ca n't do that now because there 's a public alleyway through , and the public alleyway has been here at least since sixteen ninety one . |
| 11 | ‘ I hear the English faculty has been on to Humphrey already , ’ he volunteered . |
| 12 | The French team have been together since Sunday — and even that was not enough for Fouroux . |
| 13 | With a brass section that cheerfully joined in any chorus they could remember complete with formation instrument swaying and excellent drums , double bass and guitar , it was easy to see that this band have been all over the world together . |
| 14 | I do not believe it is disputed that this factor has been powerfully in operation recently . |
| 15 | A sign : ‘ We 're sorry that this escalator has been out of use for so long … ’ |
| 16 | The man who ran the world 's first sub-four minute mile has been back to the track where he made history nearly thirty five years ago . |
| 17 | ‘ This outfit has been together for almost three years , everyone knows each other , we all get on and there 's no prima donnas etime . ’ |
| 18 | But our improvement this season has been down to a team effort , not to any particular individual . |
| 19 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 20 | Conference , we are all well aware of the terrific financial burden that this union has been under over the last few years . |
| 21 | His judicial appointments were much criticized on the ground in effect that ‘ Halsbury appointed to the High Court , and to a lesser extent to the county court , men of little or no legal learning whose previous career in public life had been largely in the service of the Conservative Party or else were relations of his own ’ . |
| 22 | The youngest children had been out in the playground ; some of them survived . |
| 23 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
| 24 | The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years . |
| 25 | Such policies have been directly against the interests of disabled people , whose economic position and need for housing with particular physical characteristics mean that the private sector has little to offer . |
| 26 | At first Canadian settlement had been largely along the border with the United States , south of the 50th parallel , and American railway companies had taken Canadian grain to the world market . |
| 27 | Roman Catholicism has been more in line with the other great world religions in insisting that mysticism is only for a few chosen souls and that , unless one has this special propensity , mysticism can be a serious health threat . |
| 28 | It had been so dry that two days under the warm sun had been enough without letting it stand in stooks or draping it on the hedges . |
| 29 | At the time of the so-called race riots , Shanti and her friends were discussing the events in Manchester , and agreeing that the whole sad business had been more about unemployment than about race . |
| 30 | In mid-Cornwall , for example , over a third of the male population has been out of work in recent years . |