Example sentences of "have [adv] been [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra 's reputation has long been out of all proportion to its representation on record , at least in the West . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
| 4 | She has not been out of this room for six months . |
| 5 | It seems to me that anyone attracted to practising psychology or psychotherapy or psychiatry has not been so without some needs of their own . |
| 6 | ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door . |
| 7 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 8 | After three weeks at his new contract , Cole has not been home before 8.30 in the evening once , so the idea that all contract catering chefs work nine-to-five is a fallacy . |
| 9 | Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work . |
| 10 | There 's an oil stain beneath it , but I bet it has n't been on since last February . |
| 11 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't understand it , he has n't been here in ten years ! |
| 13 | He has n't been home for twelve months |
| 14 | It broke Perdita 's heart that Ricky , who 'd only been out of top-class polo for three years , was totally ignored . |
| 15 | All she could think of was that they 'd all been in on this — a kind of family Mafia , working behind the scenes to make sure that Lucenzo ended up with everything , his empire untouched . |
| 16 | We 'd never been apart from each other for more than two weeks when I was arrested . |
| 17 | He just disappeared , as if he 'd never been there at all . |
| 18 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 19 | The Cobra had only been around since 1962 , but the Ace , on which it was based , dated back to 1953 , when it had been launched at Earls Court . |
| 20 | It might not have been a very long missive , but it brought Aubrey into the room as if they had not been apart for two whole years . |
| 21 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |
| 22 | She had let her overwhelming desire feed her imagination ; had read something into his words , his looks , his actions , which had not been there at all . |
| 23 | Perhaps she had not been there at all , in the street , but a phantom instead had taken her place , looking like her , feeling like her inside too , but not her , for she , Rosa , had been in her bed , dreaming . |
| 24 | Because of my knee cartilage operation , I started the 1990–91 season having done no downhill training at all during the autumn , a situation which I had not been in since 1980 . |
| 25 | When he thought back to those years in the Army , and the year immediately afterwards , it seemed to Jackson that he and Ross had scarcely been out of one another 's company . |
| 26 | We have still not been given any kind of direct word , we 've not been back in direct communication with them . |
| 27 | ‘ Gay , you 've always been rather like that , have n't you ? ’ |
| 28 | There had always been more in common between the front benches than either had in common with their followers in the country . |
| 29 | He had always been so against any kind of what he called ‘ gobbledygook ’ . |
| 30 | By now they were in Piccadilly Circus , anonymous among the largest crowd Sally-Anne had ever been in without some sort of companion to protect her , or to look out for her . |