Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 2 | Well this is erm as I say we , we , we could 've been somewhere in the region of two hundred and fifty thousand just on the I T issues alone . |
| 3 | I must 've been out at the wrong time . |
| 4 | Purists might argue he should 've been out in the colds using his sketchbook , instead of a camera , but he disagrees . |
| 5 | DEC has been ahead of the field in cultivating computer-aided drug design and other molecular modelling companies , and its latest is Waltham , Massachusetts-based Molecular Simulations Inc . |
| 6 | Chemicals has been ahead of the legislators , with 60 people already trained as manual handling assessors after completing a course devised with the help of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents . |
| 7 | It was in the nature of a revelation but like all revelations , she thought , it has been just below the surface of my mind , lingering unrecognised , waiting , and now I see it and it is a familiar friend . |
| 8 | The reason for this discrepancy is not known ; it might be because there are short-term fluctuations in the rate of lava eruption and that recently the rate has been well below the long-term average . |
| 9 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 10 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 11 | Has been probably since the foundation of the club . |
| 12 | A teacher who has been away on a short course including elements of both these skills , and can therefore give useful general advice . |
| 13 | The city has changed so much that anyone who has been away for a couple of years could be forgiven for thinking that he arrived in a time machine , not an airliner . |
| 14 | Our peasant is starting off today to Roslavl' , 55 miles away , in order to see her soldier son who has been away in the Civil War , and is passing with his peacetime unit by train tomorrow from Briansk further south to the city of Smolensk with an hour 's stop in Roslavl' . |
| 15 | The trend , in recent years , has been away from a system of strict , item by item controls to broad limitations upon total borrowing . |
| 16 | She may also use it as a greeting when she has been away from the kittens for a while . |
| 17 | In this sense the particular manipulation of reality found in the adventure story , at least until the past two or three decades , has been away from the practicalities of extended cohabitation , whether in or out of marriage . |
| 18 | But as someone who has been away from the industry for five years , I see a surprisingly rosy future for the book itself . |
| 19 | The recession has hit all industries and acting has been right in the thick of it . |
| 20 | Funding of the scheme has been largely by the developers of the Gyle Centre and the Scottish Office . |
| 21 | Then again , his fast-bowling policy , more than any other factor , has hastened the decline of the spinner , a decline that has been hugely to the game 's detriment ; and with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of young speed men reaching the Test team and creating further successes , there is little sign that the decline might be halted . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Electronics is a universal tool that has been around for a while and which can be used to control electrical circuits — not a common art form . |
| 24 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 25 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 26 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 27 | Just such a product has been introduced into the UK , although it has been around for a while in the US , under the generic name InteSoft . |
| 28 | the idea of making a boat like this has been around for a lkong time . |
| 29 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |
| 30 | 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 . |