Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Mature Student was defined as someone who has been away from continuous education for more than one year .
2 The June 5 announcement that Foreign Minister Ghozali was to be the new Prime Minister prompted favourable international press comment ; Tehran radio said that he was " recognized by the Islamists as someone who has been away from domestic confrontation " .
3 It has been more like carnival week in Rio than the death of an iron man .
4 Even though there are signs that the world 's economies are beginning to operate closer together in time terms , nevertheless in the past it has been seldom that every part of the world has been simultaneously in total depression .
5 The Georgian military said the Su-25 had attacked several times during Saturday but had been away by anti-aircraft fire .
6 Ever since 1983 the general mood in the territories had been consistently against Jordanian representation of the Palestinians , even as part of a joint team .
7 You 've been away from active duty for a while , have n't you ? ’
8 Approaches to hydrological model building have been either via physical hydrology , which is the investigation of the components of the hydrological cycle to achieve a full understanding of the mechanisms and interactions involved , or by systems synthesis investigations , which attempted a complete simulation of drainage basin operation by adjusting the components and the parameters of the model until outputs from the model agreed with empirical results from known inputs .
9 This year has been hard work for us , and for our trainees , some of whom have been away from formal education for some time .
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