Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I have ever known of love has been here in this house . |
| 2 | Mature Student was defined as someone who has been away from continuous education for more than one year . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | It has been more like carnival week in Rio than the death of an iron man . |
| 5 | It has been there in one form or another since Anglo-Saxon times , probably the first building being of wood . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 8 | That might have been so in this nation , but it was not the case throughout the empire . |
| 9 | Earlier in the month I had been strongly against any idea of coalition … |
| 10 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 11 | Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference . |
| 12 | The Georgian military said the Su-25 had attacked several times during Saturday but had been away by anti-aircraft fire . |
| 13 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 16 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 17 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 18 | Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now . |
| 19 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 20 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 21 | Keith Sutton , prosecuting on behalf of Sefton Council 's Public Protection Department , told the court there was sufficient oil in the insect to suggest it had been there for some time . |
| 22 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 23 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 24 | You 've been away from active duty for a while , have n't you ? ’ |
| 25 | See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ? |
| 26 | ‘ Back home in Australia , you can play for my university there , Queensland , for ever , so long as you 've been there at some time . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There can be reasons why people make a claim for asylum after they have been here for some time and we consider all cases properly . |
| 29 | This year has been hard work for us , and for our trainees , some of whom have been away from formal education for some time . |
| 30 | What we did was we based our forecast , which I think Mr raised that point , we based our forecast on the admissions that we did at the Department of Social Security and I 'm glad to say that we have been significantly under that level and partly I think because er we 've had people who have genuinely diverted into home care and who 've been able to which is why we 've put the pressure on home care and on the occupational therapy services and partly because erm the , there were some inappropriate admissions I must say that . |