Example sentences of "[det] [noun] have been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That truck has been there at least three days . ’ |
| 2 | This change has been chiefly in the direction of the broadening of its outlook on life . ’ |
| 3 | For the last fortnight some prisoners have been here in person . |
| 4 | This technique has been around as a possibility for these machines for years , dating right back to the very early 1970s and the S42 , or ‘ peg-board ’ machines . |
| 5 | You see , some girl 's been out for a drink , or to a disco , met a fella , the fella invites her back , she goes , and things go a bit further than she intended . |
| 6 | The contributions to this issue have been mainly from the London staff but this should be more balanced next issue as I 'll be chasing you lot in Canterbury for contributions . |
| 7 | With a brass section that cheerfully joined in any chorus they could remember complete with formation instrument swaying and excellent drums , double bass and guitar , it was easy to see that this band have been all over the world together . |
| 8 | I do not believe it is disputed that this factor has been powerfully in operation recently . |
| 9 | A sign : ‘ We 're sorry that this escalator has been out of use for so long … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ This outfit has been together for almost three years , everyone knows each other , we all get on and there 's no prima donnas etime . ’ |
| 11 | But our improvement this season has been down to a team effort , not to any particular individual . |
| 12 | Conference , we are all well aware of the terrific financial burden that this union has been under over the last few years . |
| 13 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
| 14 | Such policies have been directly against the interests of disabled people , whose economic position and need for housing with particular physical characteristics mean that the private sector has little to offer . |
| 15 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 16 | You think of the people , I mean , these people have been there for all those years |
| 17 | Counsel for the ‘ Seventeen Towns ’ , claimed by Finch to be within the forest bounds , produced in rebuttal the perambulations of 1298 and 1300 , and their confirmation by Act of Parliament in 1336 , urging also that these towns had been out of the forest by ‘ the long and constant Usage ever since . |
| 18 | The Jordanians are doing a magnificent job , keeping , keeping the show going erm people in those camps in many cases have been there for 4,5 or 7 days . |
| 19 | For instance , many firms have been perpetually on the brink of buying up a broker but brokers are often quick to deny it . |
| 20 | And one effect of the recession has been , I 've got to say , that a lot of the old that er house-builders have operated on , which are good for selling , which sites will sell well , etcetera a lot of those rules have been out of the window . |
| 21 | Those papers have been there for more than a century . |
| 22 | What we do know is that , particularly in the lower reaches of the rivers , they have suffered in the time that man has been around in Sussex , in say the last ten thousand years , very , very dramatic changes . |
| 23 | Several dogs have been in for boosters and there 's a bitch to be spayed tomorrow . |
| 24 | The marketing drive is their latest attempt to commercialise space and earn hard currency , Until now any deals have been largely through the Soviet Space Agency , Glvacosmos . |