Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's an oil stain beneath it , but I bet it has n't been on since last February . |
| 2 | There is one other point I 'd just like because yo you 've been on about Labour controlled Councils . |
| 3 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 4 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 5 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 6 | I 've been on to this morning , asked me to and they have got thirty palettes there at the moment . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been most of all impressed by the contention that removal to such an area would be damaging to the morale of journalists . ’ |
| 8 | Someone 's been right through that wall there , look . |
| 9 | ‘ Gay , you 've always been rather like that , have n't you ? ’ |
| 10 | His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event . |
| 11 | This has been mostly in agricultural chemicals where tonnages have proved a good fit with Hickson 's type of batch equipment . |
| 12 | Four of the committee members are from developing countries , and the experience of several of the others has been mostly in these countries . |
| 13 | I think with regard to er I mean the , the general rule of things with regard to educational er issues and time off for them , erm they tend to be let's say reasonable er about it er but that 's been literally on educational issues . |
| 14 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 15 | Until recently , CHP systems — combined heat and power , also called co-generation — have been only for large hotels and have meant high capital outlays . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If it had been down to that one offence , Daine would be in court for ever , kept on life support until the end of the trial , or until the judge ruled that enough medical alterations had been made to render the accused legally another entity entirely . |
| 18 | On these traffic lights been down to that football match actually cos it 's absolutely nose to tail right the way there right the way down here |
| 19 | looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without |
| 20 | Because the machine 's been down since last Thursday . |
| 21 | During the year the Nikkei Average index had failed to rise above the 26,000 mark , compared with some 39,000 at the end of 1989 , and operating revenues had been down by 23 per cent during the six months to September . |
| 22 | There was continued sniping about the March performance , with Rover , whose market share was down to less than 10 p.c. , claiming sales would have been down by 20 p.c. were it not for Ford ‘ buying market share ’ . |
| 23 | The 80s had been all about obsessional lifestyles , body consciousness , diet fads , work-out videos , designer leotards , Reeboks and Aqua Libra . |
| 24 | ‘ Until now , British Rail has , with the support of its Railways Executive , been adamantly against shared track , ’ says Michael Taplin , chairman of the Light Rail Transit Association . |
| 25 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 26 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 27 | No Chris should have been in at six , that 's when the first team started counting . |
| 28 | We 've been in at five past eight , we 've been in past eight . |
| 29 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
| 30 | All she could think of was that they 'd all been in on this — a kind of family Mafia , working behind the scenes to make sure that Lucenzo ended up with everything , his empire untouched . |