Example sentences of "have [adv] [been] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Governments , military strategists , thousands of scientists , millions of dollars of time and research budgets have all been on a wild goose chase . |
| 2 | ‘ Did you come here , ’ mumbled Dottie , very close , ‘ to ask me fatuous questions the police have already been through a hundred times , or for other reasons ? ’ |
| 3 | Wall 's ( 1986 ) evidence suggests that there have been fluctuations over time in patterns of who actually shares households , but that these have not been in a single direction . |
| 4 | CONTACT GROUPS These are usually for people who have a particular social problem in common or have just been through a similar trauma , like divorce or bereavement . |
| 5 | Wytch Farm managers have also been on a teambuilding exercise — but instead of sailing on water , however , they went to ground ! |
| 6 | they have n't been for a long time them two so they 're cast off , well they must of been they 've had to join |
| 7 | I used to be , but I have n't been for a long while I used to we ca n't say that I was there last year but |
| 8 | No , sure , have n't been for a long time have you ? |
| 9 | Have n't been for a long time , no , I 'm not more |
| 10 | what your look , same with your letter forage , I think mostly we were taught letter formation , which we have n't been for a few years now |
| 11 | Well Michael says you have n't been to a decent service for six weeks , till back . |
| 12 | These , mostly one-day , workshops have occasionally been with a whole school staff ( primary , secondary and special schools ) and more often with teachers of particular types — probationers , English teachers , science teachers , senior teachers in charge of probationers , deputies and heads on DES management courses , primary heads in one county and one LEA 's entire Inspectorate . |
| 13 | A party of Teesside journalists have recently been on a fact-finding tour of ICI 's Group Environmental Laboratory at Brixham , Devon . |
| 14 | He returned it with this comment : ‘ I have never been to a Wesleyan school nor been at the bottom of my form ! ' |