Example sentences of "have been [adv] a [adj] [noun] " 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 | I have been here a long time . |
| 5 | ‘ You have been here a long time , masters . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | The disruptions caused by newcomers have been merely a tangible symptom of this change . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The other people that have been there a long time know it all and what they , what you say can you help me . |