Example sentences of "[noun sg] has been [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This technique has been around as a possibility for these machines for years , dating right back to the very early 1970s and the S42 , or ‘ peg-board ’ machines . |
| 2 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 3 | They 're saying that after all IBM Corp has been through , hiring a guy from RJR Nabisco Corp really takes the biscuit , and Reuter sums up the new round of IBM woes succinctly : the headline on Tuesday night read 24MAR93 USA : IBM TUMBLES ON MAINFRAME CONCERN , GERSTNER . |
| 4 | The TUC General Council made history by failing to urge members to vote Labour , and a march in Birmingham yesterday headed by Bill Jordan , president of the AEU , and Mr Lyons was one of the rare occasions when trade union support has been out in force on the streets . |
| 5 | Neighbourhood Watch The Neighbourhood Watch has been up and running in the Baberton Mains Estate for some time but up in Juniper Green things have been much slower . |
| 6 | Neighbourhood Watch The Neighbourhood Watch has been up and running in the Baberton Mains Estate for some time but up in Juniper Green things have been much slower . |
| 7 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 8 | That sort of knee-jerk anticlericalism has been out of date for years . ’ |
| 9 | The humble raisin has been around for at least 2,000 years , but it has n't always been very popular — particularly in the US where novelty is all when it comes to food . |
| 10 | Branch has been on . |
| 11 | Their luck has been out . |
| 12 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 13 | Yes I know what Chairman yes of course the bridleways and bridleway then you expect to find er the horse has been along |
| 14 | That may be the norm , but , of course , there is also the abnorm when things go wrong , when the fire gets out of control , when , perhaps , the fire brigade has been over worked , or could n't find their way for cigarette smoke , or for all that saturated fat that clogged up the wheels of their tenders . |
| 15 | Service intervals of 3000 miles , plus an initial 500-mile check , mean the car has been back to the Dartford factory five times since April and have produced bills for a total of £826.05 , although £96.50 of that was to replace one of the 205/45 ZR16 Goodyear Eagle GS-D tyres , which had collected a nail in its tread . |
| 16 | For example , one wonders if the doubts about the unity of geography are any less profound than those that afflict environmental science , but geography has been around for much longer and has developed powerful institutional , professional and curricular structures , not least in the schools . |
| 17 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 18 | Since then the search has been on to acquire a Lockheed Constellation for the collection . |
| 19 | Take the example of Italy , where proportional representation has created permanent instability , with a series of coalition governments that have had to depend on several minor parties whose influence has been out of all proportion to their success in the polls . |
| 20 | So the fact that the vehicle has been out on shall we a mor a morning delivery and the the back shift man comes in and has a look at it , he would then have to do it all again . |
| 21 | So this account seems to be based on a misunderstanding of what Labov 's work has been about . |
| 22 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 23 | The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming . |
| 24 | And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road . |
| 25 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 26 | Do you think they 'll enjoy reading about the things their little boy has been up to ? ’ |
| 27 | Sir , — I am indebted to Mrs Swindin for her lucid article of May 10 , in which she explains in whose hands the Suffolk County Council has been in until quite recently . |
| 28 | The Great Britain half-back has been out for a month with strained stomach muscles . |
| 29 | Trinity Mill has been out of commercial use since the 1930s but is fortunate enough still to retain its fine internal , breastshot wheel , as well as a number of other remains , including a bolter , chaff-chutter and sack scales . |
| 30 | ‘ I hear the English faculty has been on to Humphrey already , ’ he volunteered . |