Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you see , so yeah and er we used to have as I say er , well for instance I 've been up in the office . |
| 2 | about an hour I 've been out there . |
| 3 | During the farmer 's eulogy I had been distractedly scratching the cow 's tail and had soiled my hand in the process . |
| 4 | I 've been round once , of course I 've been round once you pratt |
| 5 | In all the times I 've been down here , I have never heard that sound before . |
| 6 | I demurred , pointing out to Haines that as the chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association I had been very careful to avoid interfering with press stories in any way . |
| 7 | The fame of mind I 've been in from the beginning , ’ he says , ‘ is a belief in the spirit : it moves me , it 's in my heart . |
| 8 | I I did enjoy going to the city centre , but so far er in the few months I 've been in , I 've enjoyed it tremendously yes . |
| 9 | During the last 12 months I have been very encouraged with the way you have continued to work effectively — meeting deadlines that seemed impossible and coming up with ideas for cost savings within your own departments . |
| 10 | At college I had been thoroughly disgusted with the male egos that dominated the left-wing student politics . |
| 11 | By the time I got to the last rocker I had been out of the garage , round the block three times , back up the drive and home in time for teal Is there any way I can turn the engine over without moving the vehicle ? |
| 12 | In which case why not jettison this religion which has been so harmful to women ? l6 |
| 13 | This becomes clearer if it is considered from the more general perspective of post-modernism which has been widely characterized as involving a return of history , albeit as a category of representation . |
| 14 | But , apart from a winter break , whatever is planned around the 23rd relates to one specific plan or association which has been on and off for several months and is now back on again . |
| 15 | As the hippies had all but gone the police and the RSPCA pounced on a lorry , inside was a horse which had been badly injured in a road accident . |
| 16 | However , in about 25% of animals which have been heavily infected , there is a flare-up of clinical signs during this phase which is frequently fatal . |
| 17 | ‘ Contemporary design ’ , the magazine 's editor regretted , ‘ because it has no roots in the vernacular idiom … will not appear immediately familiar ’ , whilst the ‘ mock-Tudor and the mock-Georgian styles which have been so prevalent — no matter how misguided in themselves — have sprung … from a genuine attempt to preserve a traditional atmosphere ’ . |
| 18 | As an example of microprocessor architecture , we briefly discuss the Intel 8080 , a well-known microprocessor which has been widely copied . |
| 19 | There is , however , one little car which has been around for almost 33 years , is enjoying a revival in popularity and still holds it second-hand value well . |
| 20 | Dash will present the winner of The Crystal Maze with a car which has been specially designed for the busy Dash customer . |
| 21 | It was a black and white photograph which had been partially tinted with pastel colours so that though the young man 's face was paper-white , his eyes were sky-blue and his medal ribbons bright as a rainbow . |
| 22 | The construction of those stations became the responsibility of various industrial consortia , an aspect of the British programme which has been much criticised . |
| 23 | As previously noted , banks can increase the total volume of spending in the economy by their credit-creating capacity while non-bank financial institutions can merely borrow and lend funds which have been already created within the banking system . |
| 24 | Set it and you can forget about the meal until the buzzer lets you know it 's ready and to keep all those pots and pans there 's even a large storage compartment which has been specially contoured with smooth rounded corners to make cleaning easier . |
| 25 | The United States which had been supremely the country of the railway at the beginning of the twentieth century had just as dramatically and wholeheartedly become the country of the motor car , the Greyhound bus , and the aeroplane . |
| 26 | Any probes which have been previously mapped provide a means for ordering and orienting these contigs into their correct positions on the genome , for if two contigs contain neighbouring mapped probes then it is likely the contigs should be adjacent , even if there are no hybridisations linking them . |
| 27 | In important respects , however , his longing was a self-deception , a poetically fruitful means of expressing that sense of loneliness and isolation which had been as much a part of him in Ottery as in London . |
| 28 | The Iolanthe set provides what is called a ‘ bonus track ’ ( actually five tracks ) of orchestral dance-numbers which have been recently identified as coming from Gilbert and Sullivan 's very first collaboration , Thespis ( Gaiety Theatre , 1871 ) , of which no complete score survives . |
| 29 | So in turning to social processes outside employment , we are shifting to a sphere of study which has been well trodden by urban sociology . |
| 30 | Forty suggests that the attraction of the neo-classical , which emerged from a somewhat wider range as the most successful of Wedgewood 's styles , was that it provided an acceptable facade for the introduction of the advances being made by ceramic science , the most modern techniques thereby being employed in the improvement of reproductions , a tension in commercial styling which has been strongly asserted ever since . |