Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 3 | The TUC General Council made history by failing to urge members to vote Labour , and a march in Birmingham yesterday headed by Bill Jordan , president of the AEU , and Mr Lyons was one of the rare occasions when trade union support has been out in force on the streets . |
| 4 | This change has been chiefly in the direction of the broadening of its outlook on life . ’ |
| 5 | In fact the staff response has been just below average with legal and financial worries being main areas of concern . |
| 6 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 7 | That sort of knee-jerk anticlericalism has been out of date for years . ’ |
| 8 | That truck has been there at least three days . ’ |
| 9 | The humble raisin has been around for at least 2,000 years , but it has n't always been very popular — particularly in the US where novelty is all when it comes to food . |
| 10 | Presumably your past experience has been mainly with the heavyweights ; the Venturas and CorelDRAWs of this world . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Service intervals of 3000 miles , plus an initial 500-mile check , mean the car has been back to the Dartford factory five times since April and have produced bills for a total of £826.05 , although £96.50 of that was to replace one of the 205/45 ZR16 Goodyear Eagle GS-D tyres , which had collected a nail in its tread . |
| 13 | The doorstep talk has been mostly of the economy ; Willesden County Court , has dealt with the second highest number of repossessions in the country . |
| 14 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 15 | For example , one wonders if the doubts about the unity of geography are any less profound than those that afflict environmental science , but geography has been around for much longer and has developed powerful institutional , professional and curricular structures , not least in the schools . |
| 16 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 17 | As the Doctor gives the conventional lore of his day , a blend of ethics and medicine : we see that we are also those ‘ deaf pillows ’ , that the masking and unmasking has been all for our sake . |
| 18 | The evidence discussed in this final section of the chapter has been uniformly in favour of the associative account of acquired equivalence and distinctiveness . |
| 19 | Operating as Shadowfax Restaurants , the partnership has been together for a number of years , and currently has two Pizza Express outlets in Barnet and Finchley , and part ownership of a pizza restaurant in the West End of London . |
| 20 | Not content with blackguarding him in the columns of the local rag , him and his silly daughter 's bum , the one-time Chief Citizen of the Borough had been up to no good with a girl young enough to be Grace 's sister , and in the Grand Hotel , and at a Conservative Party conference of all places . |
| 21 | By then the Faulkner administration had been out of existence for some months and hostility to it no longer rallied the public . |
| 22 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 23 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 24 | Only a few days before an ITV programme had been far from complimentary about some of the Salvation Army hostels . |
| 25 | The jasmine had been out in Seville the year before … she hoped he 'd remember . |
| 26 | When he was a child , the loft had been out of bounds . |
| 27 | Syd 's been out of top class cricket for nearly two years . |
| 28 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |
| 29 | Talking of exotic locations , our lucky fashion department have been off to colourful Morocco , to see how they got on turn to page 37 . |
| 30 | But she 'll wear it if she has to , and she wants to go to Lourdes , the priest 's been on to her and she 's … ’ |