Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A teacher who has been away on a short course including elements of both these skills , and can therefore give useful general advice . |
| 2 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 3 | The British people have not been allowed to express their views through a referendum , although the trend in opinion as measured by opinion polls has been firmly against a Federalist structure . |
| 4 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 5 | It has been nigh on a full month since we first made a landfall on to the north shore : since we rode in the longboat on the crest of the shining surf and I set my foot withal on this fair land in the name of the King . |
| 6 | The Yorkshire captain has been out with a broken finger since the opening day of the championship season and it was thought he would not be fit until next week . |
| 7 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 8 | The scene at the offices of BAeSEMA , the hi-tech computer design group , may have been more like a Blue Peter set than a serious example of the latest in navy design , but Adml Eaton appeared suitably impressed . |
| 9 | It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission . |
| 10 | She had been away on a little holiday in Spain and knew nothing . |
| 11 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 12 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 13 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 14 | He had been neither to a great school nor to a university . |
| 15 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 16 | Further , Curtis had informed Grant that the word on the streets was that the recent outbreak of violence and killing had been all about a territorial dispute between rival Triad and Mafia gangs . |
| 17 | She had been out with a young lawyer once , a bumptious and ambitious man , and a boring one . |
| 18 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 19 | The cheap attempt at humour had been too like a treacherous repudiation of Timmy whom he loved . |
| 20 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 21 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |
| 22 | We 've been away for a long time . |
| 23 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We 've been apart for a long time . |
| 25 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 26 | I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time ! |
| 27 | And , as I say , we 've been together for a long time and the appointment , the changeover of the appointments |
| 28 | and the first sort of thing they ever had was just like a little screen it just went blip and that 's it , all they could tell you was there was something in their vicinity , it could n't tell you what direction it was or what height or anything . |
| 29 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 30 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |