Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] [prep] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No they 're not but they 've been getting on all right really . |
| 2 | I 've been going for so long I can do everything . |
| 3 | They are the way forward now for the British mining industry erm they 've been coming in very steadily and now they are at virtually every pit in the country . |
| 4 | I I the retail 's not within what we 've been talking about this afternoon but on the other hand it does employ more people per hectare than any industry we 've been talking about as as far as as far as I understand it . |
| 5 | And , in a sense , we 've , just to complete what we 've been talking about so far , there 's always the question of press and magazines and house style , just to remind you that you really need to study formats if you 're going to try and as a freelance we talked about that yesterday . |
| 6 | Cos we 've been talking at least there . |
| 7 | ‘ I mean , you 've been indulged for too long . |
| 8 | Old people have been indoctrinated for so long in the necessary frailty and peripheralism of their lot that this is not surprising . |
| 9 | Of the 307 theses in data set C , 230 ( 75% ) have been consulted at least once . |
| 10 | You can not pretend to people who , like you , have been pretending for as long as they can remember : they do not let you get away with it . |
| 11 | When you have been teaching for as long as I have you 'll realise that it 's no good at all being kind to children . |
| 12 | ‘ Change comes slow when people have been repressed for so long . |
| 13 | Animals have been anthropomorphised since as long ago as Egyptian times . ’ |
| 14 | Selfing populations of plants could be valuable material , although the retention of unused yet presumably expensive floral features in some populations raised doubts as to whether they have been selfing for long enough to reach evolutionary equilibrium . |
| 15 | As Rosemary Deem makes clear in the article reproduced here , deliberate and formal distinctions between the education of boys and girls have been made until very recently and only brought formally to a halt through the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act . |
| 16 | ‘ Dr Traber added that ‘ for both the media and the theologians , the problem of how to see the world with new eyes should be tackled first by a removal of ideological blinkers which have been worn for so long . ’ |
| 17 | Some detainees have been held for as long as seven years without charge or trial . |
| 18 | The high reliability of the new postwar plant may , however , have been purchased at too high a cost . |
| 19 | The annual Livewire competition is open to 16 to 25 year olds who have been trading for less then a year . |
| 20 | Sightings have been reported from as far as France and the Netherlands . |
| 21 | This should be used to adjust the model in a manner similar to that which you have been used to so far . |
| 22 | She said : ‘ I have been used for too long , I must do things for myself now . |
| 23 | Nicknames have been used for as long as man has identified himself . |
| 24 | The good folk of the Gorbals have been maligned for too long . |
| 25 | Arab coins have been found in as far away places as Russia , Germany and Sweden ! |
| 26 | These Pleistocene oscillations of sea level have been superimposed on slightly earlier and usually downward movements of base level , so that the landscape in detail is complex and has developed under the influence of many and varied movements of base level . |
| 27 | Remember estate agents have been going for so long they say , Oh is that another folder ? |
| 28 | But if , if our fee bids , that have been going in so far , are there or thereabouts and having monitored reports for quite a while , tendencies and yes some are under and some are a bit over but in general they 're not th they 're not that far out . |
| 29 | The photographer had long since gone , but Kevin Seymour and I pored over the yacht 's considerable folio of charts while we discussed in detail the cruises that have been sketched in so lightly in the previous paragraphs . |
| 30 | Alright , so there 's this interest in what women talk about when they 're by themselves and when Martha comes down , she wants to know what the men have been talking about as well . |