Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 2 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 3 | I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months . |
| 4 | Conference , we are all well aware of the terrific financial burden that this union has been under over the last few years . |
| 5 | All being well , the skies will part once or twice during the festival — only the second time the event has been out in the open air . |
| 6 | One can only regard them as victims of other people 's loose ends , just as the terrible sustained anxiety of Raskolnikov 's mother and sister on his account is the measure of his power to make others suffer as well as himself in that limbo which his friend — his only friend — Razumikhin calls being out of the practical swim . |
| 7 | Because they 've been split between school , between young classes , my daughter 's been in with the eight year olds . |
| 8 | The next thing is that when the vote comes to the General Secretary for the union , anyone who 's been out of the particular industry for longer than eighteen months wo n't be able to vote . |