Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seismic operations have been underway since late 1990 with more than 4,000 km recorded so far . |
| 2 | That sort of knee-jerk anticlericalism has been out of date for years . ’ |
| 3 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
| 4 | Now he he ca n't do that now because there 's a public alleyway through , and the public alleyway has been here at least since sixteen ninety one . |
| 5 | ‘ I hear the English faculty has been on to Humphrey already , ’ he volunteered . |
| 6 | The French team have been together since Sunday — and even that was not enough for Fouroux . |
| 7 | The man who ran the world 's first sub-four minute mile has been back to the track where he made history nearly thirty five years ago . |
| 8 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 9 | His judicial appointments were much criticized on the ground in effect that ‘ Halsbury appointed to the High Court , and to a lesser extent to the county court , men of little or no legal learning whose previous career in public life had been largely in the service of the Conservative Party or else were relations of his own ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At first Canadian settlement had been largely along the border with the United States , south of the 50th parallel , and American railway companies had taken Canadian grain to the world market . |
| 12 | Roman Catholicism has been more in line with the other great world religions in insisting that mysticism is only for a few chosen souls and that , unless one has this special propensity , mysticism can be a serious health threat . |
| 13 | It had been so dry that two days under the warm sun had been enough without letting it stand in stooks or draping it on the hedges . |
| 14 | At the time of the so-called race riots , Shanti and her friends were discussing the events in Manchester , and agreeing that the whole sad business had been more about unemployment than about race . |
| 15 | In mid-Cornwall , for example , over a third of the male population has been out of work in recent years . |
| 16 | Isabel 's personal integrity had been there in her clear gaze all the time , if he 'd been thinking with his head instead of with his emotions . |
| 17 | ‘ Or maybe she just learned from a more rational neighbour that the real Delia has been abroad for six months . |
| 18 | Also , the American and Japanese economies have been out of kilter . |
| 19 | It had disturbed her enough , and even if the unwritten reproof had been solely in her own imagination she was not about to look again and check it . |
| 20 | The humble raisin has been around for at least 2,000 years , but it has n't always been very popular — particularly in the US where novelty is all when it comes to food . |
| 21 | Mammal-like animals have been around for some 200 million years but did n't become particularly numerous until about 70 million years ago , around the time the dinosaurs became extinct . |
| 22 | Do you think they 'll enjoy reading about the things their little boy has been up to ? ’ |
| 23 | Over the years a niggling rivalry has been much in evidence between the two clubs , although Whaddon have progressed to a much higher standard of football . |
| 24 | Roxburgh summed up the occasion by saying his team had ‘ everything to gain and nothing to lose ’ , an ironic choice of phrase given the fact that the national coach had been up since 6.30am figuring out ways to compensate for loss . |
| 25 | The ILP Parliamentary Group had been out of sympathy with the party on two important issues , the Abyssinian War and the Munich agreement . |
| 26 | After all , the leading ministers had been continuously in office for the past ten years , and had achieved many of their declared objectives . |
| 27 | Chairman John McBaine , passing sentence , labelled it a ‘ tragic case ’ , adding it was difficult to realise what suffering Lee had been through in the last few months . |
| 28 | Some of the trees in this ancient woodland have been here for more than 300 years . |
| 29 | Poor Sam had been backwards at coming forwards , she told herself . |
| 30 | Previous investments in Eastern Europe have been mainly in the form of joint ventures . |