Example sentences of "[adv] been [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Since their lavish £200,000 wedding 14 months ago , they have rarely been out of the headlines — but for all the wrong reasons . |
2 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
3 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
4 | How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months . |
5 | In fact he had only been away from the town for one period of six years when he was at university in Aberdeen . |
6 | I mean there were only been about at the most ten who were suffering from burns . |
7 | ‘ But I 've only been down to the banister to pick up my coat . ’ |
8 | A clergyman who was in Manchester Cathedral when the second device went off said : ‘ I had only been there for a matter of seconds when I heard an almighty crump . |
9 | He 's a new environment officer , he 's only been there for a month or something . |
10 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
11 | I 've only been back on the case , in cosmic terms , about two-and-a-half minutes . |
12 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
13 | ‘ Lenny 's only been out of the jug five , maybe six weeks , ’ said Lloyd . |
14 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
15 | ‘ After all , they have n't long been out of a very warm secure environment , have they ? ’ she continued . |
16 | The remaining four had all been backstage at the relevant time , or could have been , but the motives Charles had managed to dredge up for them did n't survive close scrutiny . |
17 | The man talked a lot about karma and said that they had obviously been together in a previous incarnation , but now their birthdates were not synchronized . |
18 | I have personally been down to the suppliers several times and checked , and there is no doubt we will have delivery . |
19 | In short , the strategic choice in British and American urban policy has not been simply about the encouragement of economic development , it is also about the changing nature of that development itself , more specifically the changing nature of the labour process in an economy designed for the post-Fordist era ( Lash and Urry , 1987 ; Murray , 1989 ) . |
20 | Some students may need only to make good on areas where their performance has not been up to the Compact mark , others may need to negotiate the complete range of Compact goals at this level . |
21 | You 've not been on for a while have you ? |
22 | Good you 've not been on for a while either have you ? |
23 | ‘ Since you had not been here for a fortnight , ’ he said , ‘ I assumed that you had completed your enquiries . ’ |
24 | Can I just clarify one other point with the County Council and for the benefit of those who 've not been here for the last however many days . |
25 | He had certainly not been here on the day that she and her parents had briefly visited Leo 's quarters . |
26 | This popularity has not been all to the good , but having said that , the Rottweiler has now made friends who are concerned with his welfare . |
27 | It had not been out of the cupboard for some months and it really showed off until I treated it to a stiff drink ( surgical spirit ) and a nice massage with an oily rag . |
28 | Provided they 've not been out of the job all that long , I think , cos things change , do n't they ? |
29 | In the story above , David says that he 's the only boy in his class who 's not been out with a girl . |
30 | And though I have not been there at the right season for many years , for all I know they live there still — a small , brown , undemonstrative little butterfly , not immediately noticed by an untrained eye . |