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Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [adv] [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	featured the last er three years some of the other companies have only been here since last year and the year before so I mean we 're a national tour operator
2	The first is that the amount of evolutionary divergence in the organization of primate brains has not been anywhere near as great as the divergence between primates and other groups .
3	But he seemed disposed on this occasion to discuss St Stephen 's , because its problems had lately been much on his mind .
4	It will be noted that the children had already been effectively in care on a voluntary basis for the previous six months .
5	Many of the children had never been away from home before and there were inevitable bouts of homesickness but the Dreamflight team worked hard to make them feel at ease .
6	The numbers have not , however , fallen significantly , and in 1977 there were still 44,100 adults aged sixteen and over in mental handicap hospitals in England , and recent decreases in these numbers have not been anywhere near as rapid as successive governments have proposed would be the case .
7	Of all the things she had expected from life , the events of the last twenty-four hours had not been remotely near them .
8	The best-informed guess from those collecting ‘ yellow card ’ adverse reaction reports has long been that at most only 10 per cent of serious reactions , including death , and considerably less than 1 per cent of mild reactions come to the CSM 's notice .
9	It is n't as if the chances had n't been there for Leeds to win away last term : Oldham 2–0 up with 5 minutes to go , Sheff .
10	Approximately fifteen subsidy investigations have recently been underway in the European Commission .
11	Tushingham 's second place in the Flying Dutchman , after winning the final race , was particularly impressive as British sailors have not been so near the top of this class since the era of Rodney Pattisson .