Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a few days before an ITV programme had been far from complimentary about some of the Salvation Army hostels . |
| 2 | In Ivory Coast the transfer of ownership has been essentially from the foreign private investor to the local private investor : government remains the owner of 50 per cent of corporate capital ( as it has been since the 1960s ) and the foreign investors ' share has been reduced to 30 per cent , with the local private sector taking the remainder . |
| 3 | The contributions to this issue have been mainly from the London staff but this should be more balanced next issue as I 'll be chasing you lot in Canterbury for contributions . |
| 4 | With a new emphasis on the importance of the Word , the trend has been away from hymns , anthems and settings . |
| 5 | In music , as with other subjects , the trend has been away from regimentation towards an individual approach and small group work . |
| 6 | The operation had been far from easy , the cable being ‘ … manhandled out of the hold of a steamer , over a pulley and round a drum which measured the speed , and then several times round a brake drum before passing into the sea ’ .5 |
| 7 | Absenteeism and lack of reverence in church had been far from unknown before the Reformation ; indeed such charges were the most frequent cause of appearances before the Suffolk ecclesiastical courts in the fifteenth century . |
| 8 | City had been ahead from the 12th minute when full-back Hill was left unmarked at a Brennan corner and took advantage with a crisp header . |
| 9 | You know his father had started the company and the men , the older men in the quarry had been there from day one with him , you know from when they were producing next to nothing to being quite a profitable concern , and he realized the value of these men , and that you could n't just say , oh because they disagree with you just well , down the road pal . |
| 10 | The mill has been I do n't ken how long there 's been a mill on the site there but the mill as it stands at present 's been there from eighteen sixty . |
| 11 | But the year since Robert Maxwell 's death has been far from comfortable . |
| 12 | The visit had been far from successful , for Adam had sulked when offered the four-ten , the so-called ‘ lady 's gun ’ . |