Example sentences of "have been [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul 's verdict : Bags have been around a long time now and Rohan can justifiably claim to have prompted other companies to come up with versions of their original . |
| 2 | Some have been around a long time , others are of more recent origins . |
| 3 | Its policies , domestic and foreign — not least its tardy entry into the European Community in January 1973 — have been largely a belated reaction to the original achievements of others . |
| 4 | Very properly , they regarded the changes around them with interested caution , and the book leaves the reader with the impression that the recent changes have been primarily the modest addition of audio-visual materials to those items already included for enquiry and project research . |
| 5 | I have been here a long time . |
| 6 | ‘ You have been here a long time , masters . |
| 7 | It may though , have been just the right setting for those particular films . |
| 8 | The royals have been virtually the only gossip among their delegations following first the news that Anne and Tim were to marry and then the bombshell that Diana and Charles were to separate . |
| 9 | There have been only a small number of studies which have applied these techniques to bilingual data , for example : Auer 1981 , 1984a , 1984b ; Auer and Di Luzio 1983a , 1983b ; Tate 1984 ; Sebba and Wootton 1984 ; Milroy and Li Wei ( forthcoming ) . |
| 10 | With the ending of the BBC television 's long-running sailing soap opera , ‘ Howards ' Way ’ ( sighs of relief all round : the last few have been hardly a glowing advertisement for boating or boating business ) comes the announcement that Sadler International are to sell off the moulds and rights to build Barracuda , the prototype of which has been the opening and closing credits ' star of the series . |
| 11 | Could not the ‘ real Jesus ’ or , as later generations were to term him , the ‘ historical Jesus ’ , conceivably have been quite a different sort of figure from the Christ who was subsequently preached and described in the terms of the Nicene Creed as God made man ? |
| 12 | The disruptions caused by newcomers have been merely a tangible symptom of this change . |
| 13 | The eaves , most of which are round the Mull of Oa and the northeast corner of the island , have been there a long time but are almost unexplored and very little s known about them , There is evidence that those at Port a Chotain , near Bholsa , had been occupied in the 17th or early 18th century . |
| 14 | The other people that have been there a long time know it all and what they , what you say can you help me . |