Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] have been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years , urban finance has been a system with which very few practitioners or academics have been totally at ease and procedures governing local-government funding have become more convoluted in the 1980s . |
| 2 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 3 | But if she came and found Tina up she could pretend to herself that Tina had been up for hours , and was a normal person and a proper mother . |
| 4 | He thought and then said easily , " She was wondering whether there was a chance he might ask for a transfer now that Howarth has been in post a year . |
| 5 | She knew that her presence and unwavering support was as important to the outcome as all the physical and psychological preparation that Lennox had been through in the past few months . |
| 6 | It 's a good job that Nan has been off with her bad leg these past two weeks . ’ |
| 7 | and erm , mum was sorry that Mark had been on about it , she said , oh I bet that 's where he goes , and erm , like the park beside it was just lovely , |
| 8 | She talked freely about the many young men she and Sarah had been out with , and sometimes had the women in fits of laughter , but she never mentioned John . |
| 9 | Cos car 's been here since Saturday . |
| 10 | As the Doctor gives the conventional lore of his day , a blend of ethics and medicine : we see that we are also those ‘ deaf pillows ’ , that the masking and unmasking has been all for our sake . |
| 11 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 12 | At the end of the protracted negotiations with her great-aunt 's executors , and the vendor 's solicitors , Hugh and Molly had been out to several dinners in bistros , for which she insisted she paid her share . |
| 13 | She spoke as if Ruth had been away on holiday and must therefore have abounding strength and energy . |
| 14 | Eight key tasks are identified and work has been underway on these for some time . |
| 15 | Hoomey thought it very weird , and longed to discuss it with somebody , but dare n't , not even to ask Gary if Nails had been away at night . |
| 16 | Vaguely she wondered if Kate and Stephen had been up to mischief . |
| 17 | The little that she 'd been able to piece together was that Pamela was a barrister , that the house did , as Lucy had suspected , belong to her , and that she and Josie had been together for at least five years and probably longer . |
| 18 | The recession has hit all industries and acting has been right in the thick of it . |
| 19 | ‘ He was wanting to know if Philip had been up in Mr Hyde 's woods . ’ |
| 20 | During the last week of September that year , Cornwall had been enjoying an Indian summer and Edna and Celia had been down to the Cove every day . |
| 21 | Aerospatiale and Socata have been there since 1911 and will probably be there for the next 80 years , whether they buy Piper or not . |
| 22 | In other fields — most notably those concerned with computers — both France and Britain have been far from successful . |
| 23 | So yourself and O'Gorman have been up to something ? |
| 24 | She and Lewis had been out for a meal the night before . |
| 25 | Even if Cherith had been genuinely in love with me , how long do you thing we 'd have stayed together ? |
| 26 | Sir Keith Joseph offers a flexi-time history according to which , in the same speech where he entertained the spectacular belief that Britain 's streets had been plunged into insecurity ‘ for the first time in a century and a half ’ , he also conjured with a more modest timescale whereby ‘ such words as good and evil , such stress on self-discipline and standards have been out of favour since the war ’ . |
| 27 | So let's hear what jolly japes you and George have been up to since then . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 30 | Ever since Kevin Costner delighted impressionable audiences with Dances With Wolves , feathers , beads and tepees have been unusually in demand in Tinseltown . |