Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some rural districts , however , still lack separate housing departments staffed by professionally trained housing managers , and in extreme instances allocations have been carried out on a more or less ad hoc basis by local councillors . |
| 2 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 3 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 4 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 5 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been closed out of a few significant contracts lately because it could n't tick off the Motif and Distributed Computing Environment boxes on the bids : the Common Open Systems Environment will at least get it back in the running for a $20m deal at Boeing Co that requires Motif and Sun insiders reckon that the company will now include Motif in its price list almost immediately — the best guess is that SunSoft will offer reasonably priced Motif upgrades for Solaris 1 . |
| 6 | Sun Microsystems has been closed out of a few significant contracts lately because it could n't tick off the Motif and DCE boxes on the bids . |
| 7 | Centres for teaching English as a second language ( CE2L ) are separate schools that have been set up by a few LEAs . |
| 8 | According to Grosskurth ( 1984 ) , some innovative schemes along these lines have already been set up by a few progressive British local authorities , but it seems that they are as yet rare , and reach only a minority of the people in need . |