Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been most of all impressed by the contention that removal to such an area would be damaging to the morale of journalists . ’ |
| 2 | Someone 's been right through that wall there , look . |
| 3 | ‘ Gay , you 've always been rather like that , have n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event . |
| 5 | Four of the committee members are from developing countries , and the experience of several of the others has been mostly in these countries . |
| 6 | The Labour government 's priority from 1964 onwards was the servicing of the economy in response to demands made on them by capital ; in so far as working-class girls could have contributed to this , it would have been only in those unskilled jobs for which greater or better education was not required . |
| 7 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 8 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 9 | If this is to happen then there must be far greater participation than there has been hitherto by all members of the school staff in the establishment of general philosophy and purpose of the school . |
| 10 | The floor of these forests was , at best , only sparsely vegetated and great areas may have been entirely without any living leaves . |
| 11 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 12 | Or if members of a group are not familiar with each other , no mutual aid may occur until they have been together for some time . |
| 13 | The couple live apart and although they have been together for some time , you sense Clint 's fingers have been burned by his previous bad experiences . |
| 14 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |
| 15 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 16 | The composition by age of children in children 's homes had always included some adolescents but they had never been together in such large numbers before . |
| 17 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 18 | It is made from M. spicata , but there are many other mints with various distinct aromas and flavours — garden mint is the most commonly used and has been so for many centuries . |
| 19 | Once you are fully better , and have been so for some time , you can risk the occasional slice of white bread or a sliver of cake . |
| 20 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 21 | It seems to me that anyone attracted to practising psychology or psychotherapy or psychiatry has not been so without some needs of their own . |
| 22 | Occasionally it is explained that they had already died — and given the still short life-expectancy of the period this must have been so in many cases . |
| 23 | That might have been so in this nation , but it was not the case throughout the empire . |
| 24 | He had always been so against any kind of what he called ‘ gobbledygook ’ . |
| 25 | If the SRs had achieved power , ‘ their actions would have been exactly like those of the Bolshevik Party . ’ |
| 26 | It 's not been away at all . |
| 27 | On 30 June Colonel Wilkinson was at his desk catching up on policy matters after having been away for several days visiting units in the Liverpool area and attending an Army Catering Corps Promotion Selection Board held at Exeter . |
| 28 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 29 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 30 | He had been away for some hours . |