Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 2 | Syd 's been out of top class cricket for nearly two years . |
| 3 | Talking of exotic locations , our lucky fashion department have been off to colourful Morocco , to see how they got on turn to page 37 . |
| 4 | Take the example of Italy , where proportional representation has created permanent instability , with a series of coalition governments that have had to depend on several minor parties whose influence has been out of all proportion to their success in the polls . |
| 5 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 6 | Trinity Mill has been out of commercial use since the 1930s but is fortunate enough still to retain its fine internal , breastshot wheel , as well as a number of other remains , including a bolter , chaff-chutter and sack scales . |
| 7 | Because the machine 's been down since last Thursday . |
| 8 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 9 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
| 10 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 11 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 12 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 13 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 14 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 15 | The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years . |
| 16 | ‘ My family have been around for seventeen generations , do n't you know , so we feel we have n't an awful lot to prove . |