Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This change has been chiefly in the direction of the broadening of its outlook on life . ’ |
| 2 | In fact the staff response has been just below average with legal and financial worries being main areas of concern . |
| 3 | That truck has been there at least three days . ’ |
| 4 | Presumably your past experience has been mainly with the heavyweights ; the Venturas and CorelDRAWs of this world . |
| 5 | The doorstep talk has been mostly of the economy ; Willesden County Court , has dealt with the second highest number of repossessions in the country . |
| 6 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The evidence discussed in this final section of the chapter has been uniformly in favour of the associative account of acquired equivalence and distinctiveness . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Only a few days before an ITV programme had been far from complimentary about some of the Salvation Army hostels . |
| 12 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |
| 13 | Cos car 's been here since Saturday . |
| 14 | My work has been mainly about the development of a sense of identity and of a sense of community , the development of relationships but not actually about sex . |
| 15 | Eight key tasks are identified and work has been underway on these for some time . |
| 16 | Roman Catholicism has been more in line with the other great world religions in insisting that mysticism is only for a few chosen souls and that , unless one has this special propensity , mysticism can be a serious health threat . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The important work of slum clearance has been virtually at a standstill since 1939 , only individual houses having been demolished , apart from an area in London intended as a showpiece for the Festival of Britain . |
| 19 | Over the years a niggling rivalry has been much in evidence between the two clubs , although Whaddon have progressed to a much higher standard of football . |
| 20 | Now he he ca n't do that now because there 's a public alleyway through , and the public alleyway has been here at least since sixteen ninety one . |
| 21 | The wood has been there since the days of King John . |
| 22 | Marriage has been much on our minds in the SHE office of late . |
| 23 | It had been so dry that two days under the warm sun had been enough without letting it stand in stooks or draping it on the hedges . |
| 24 | The plan had been originally for Rohan to marry Antoinette , but because she was the Baronne 's niece , not Gaston 's , the inheritance would have been penalised financially by the government . |
| 25 | In spite of her affected disinterest , Taureg 's return had been well worth watching . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin . |
| 28 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 29 | ‘ The fishery has been here for over 400 years , so we want to make sure we maintain it for future generations , ’ said Mr Horne . |
| 30 | Public opinion has been solidly behind the Review Panel . |