Example sentences of "they have [been] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we 'll see , they 've been outside a little while , so |
| 2 | But some times when I when people tell me that they 've been in a certain environment . |
| 3 | There must be armies of males squirming uncomfortably at the breakfast table , feeling they 've been in a similar movie . |
| 4 | Next morning the stage manager took great pleasure in informing them they had been to a women-only club . |
| 5 | Even those near the edge stand a better chance of survival than if they had been in a solitary nest far away in a place where local foxes can consume everything that is available . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time . |
| 7 | For nominal Christians it is perhaps only the third time they have been at a religious service ; the other two being their baptism and marriage . |
| 8 | Research into technological innovation has generally assumed that although shifts have occurred they have been within a stable organisational framework . |