Example sentences of "be [prep] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His father said last night : ‘ I have been through the usual Foreign Office channels . |
| 2 | His opposite number , Clive Lloyd , had already been through the two formative experiences of his captaincy . |
| 3 | Of course he understood , having been through the same gruesome ordeal . |
| 4 | It 's Sir Ralph Halpern 's view that if it had n't been for the current worldwide recession , many more outside brands would have been introduced to the UK market . |
| 5 | Every night was a milestone , and had been for the past fifteen years . |
| 6 | Where have you been for the past four hours ? ’ |
| 7 | Since you came here he has laughed more and been amused more than he has been for the past two years . |
| 8 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 9 | It was how it had been for the past two weeks and the young woman tried to ignore her protesting muscles and her aching back as she stared into the hearth and watched the tiny flames flickering in and out of the carefully banked-up grate . |
| 10 | I ask him stupid things like , ‘ Where have you been for the past six months ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 12 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
| 13 | Broadly , we may say that industry will have to be far less rigid ; indeed much more flexible in adapting itself to change than it has been for the past twenty years . |
| 14 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Considerable amounts are being spent on replacing them with better services , and have been for the past few years . |
| 16 | I do not know where he has been for the past few years , but we have reduced the rates on lower earnings so that people now pay on average about £3 a week less in national insurance . |
| 17 | Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ? |
| 18 | They were bare and shabby and if it had not been for the pretty yellow cloths she had made for the tables and the yellow and orange cushions she had covered for the chairs and the blue vase full of roses she had asked Maria to place on the chest of drawers , then they would have been dismal indeed . |
| 19 | In all the most important affairs of life , liberty remained for him what it had been for the last thirty years , a state of will which could not depart from rectitude . |
| 20 | He has been for the last six years . ’ |
| 21 | Lawrence , Sibylle Zuckermann has been for the last six years teaching a Senior Citizens ' class . |
| 22 | It also puts money into the Yorkshire and Humberside Development Association which is wholly involved and has been for the last two years in trying to get large scale erm strategic inward investment into the county , and erm it is a erm awkwardness I think that it 's best to be open about that the planning policy of the county is out of tune with the day factor activities of the economic development side of the of the county council . |
| 23 | And would it be impolite of me to enquire exactly where you and the other officers have been for the last eight hours ? ’ |
| 24 | Surely they 've been for the last four years and they must or do they just keep it at eighty one then they go to ninety ? |
| 25 | A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years . |
| 26 | That 's where we 've been for the last twenty years so erm this company er that was already doing it and we bought it into the er into the fold . |
| 27 | ‘ He hasnae been for the last three games . ’ |
| 28 | But the South African Rugby Board and the South African Rugby Union continued to get bogged down , as they had been for the last three years , even with the help of intermediaries of the stature of Nelson Mandela , in their attempts to reach accord and form one , united body for rugby football in their country . |
| 29 | The selection of documents to be saved for posterity is as essential as it has been for the last 30 years ; it is not so much that computers can not store everything ( storage capacities are continuing to develop exponentially ) , as the consideration that to conserve everything makes the past unmanageable and impenetrable . |
| 30 | Obviously the standards are not satisfactory but they are the same as they have been for the last 30 years and they are of Mr Pritchard 's choosing . |