Example sentences of "[pron] has been [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 2 | Its profits record , which has been far from outstanding , suggests that it is wrong . |
| 3 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 4 | Mature Student was defined as someone who has been away from continuous education for more than one year . |
| 5 | The June 5 announcement that Foreign Minister Ghozali was to be the new Prime Minister prompted favourable international press comment ; Tehran radio said that he was " recognized by the Islamists as someone who has been away from domestic confrontation " . |
| 6 | Two long-serving ministers , Dr Brian Mawhinney , who has been there since 1986 , and Mr Richard Needham , since 1985 , both return to senior posts in mainland ministries . |
| 7 | She has been there for two years . |
| 8 | If this is to happen then there must be far greater participation than there has been hitherto by all members of the school staff in the establishment of general philosophy and purpose of the school . |
| 9 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 10 | It has been more like carnival week in Rio than the death of an iron man . |
| 11 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 12 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 13 | It has been there in one form or another since Anglo-Saxon times , probably the first building being of wood . |