Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [been] [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| 7 | That sort of knee-jerk anticlericalism has been out of date for years .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 | Take the example of Italy , where proportional representation has created permanent instability , with a series of coalition governments that have had to depend on several minor parties whose influence has been out of all proportion to their success in the polls . |
| 21 | So the fact that the vehicle has been out on shall we a mor a morning delivery and the the back shift man comes in and has a look at it , he would then have to do it all again . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Eight key tasks are identified and work has been underway on these for some time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 26 | The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming . |
| 27 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Do you think they 'll enjoy reading about the things their little boy has been up to ? ’ |