Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] have been [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was a child , the loft had been out of bounds . |
| 2 | ‘ The phone 's been out of order all week , and the man who came to mend it has broken a lamp I was very fond of . ’ |
| 3 | I saw it , ’ and Chapman backed his players ' view : ‘ I could not see clearly from my position , but Arsenal , almost to a man , stopped playing and I do not think they would have done that unless they had been satisfied that the ball had been out of play , ’ he told the Sunday Express . |
| 4 | Just over 4 in 10 ( 42% ) dependent children in 1987 lived in a household where the head had been out of work for two or more years . |
| 5 | Of " voluntary " temporary workers , nearly a half had been out of the labour market entirely 12 months before and only two per cent had been unemployed , but of " involuntary " temporary workers the proportions were just under one third in both cases . |
| 6 | He could be absolutely guaranteed to report to Fagg in the morning that a servant had been out of bounds , and this was no time to get the sack . |
| 7 | Milan denied , however , that they plan to cut his current salary , as they have a right to do under Italian rules when a player has been out of action for more than six months . |