Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [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 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 3 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 4 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months . |
| 7 | Conference , we are all well aware of the terrific financial burden that this union has been under over the last few years . |
| 8 | The Yorkshire captain has been out with a broken finger since the opening day of the championship season and it was thought he would not be fit until next week . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I mean surely that is a subject that 's been around for a hundred years ? |
| 12 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 13 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
| 14 | Because they 've been split between school , between young classes , my daughter 's been in with the eight year olds . |
| 15 | 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 . |