Example sentences of "[det] have [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been mostly in agricultural chemicals where tonnages have proved a good fit with Hickson 's type of batch equipment . |
| 2 | This has been so for centuries , and afflicts all nations . |
| 3 | This has been so for the Cape Verdians for close on 300 years , from the time when the original emigrants first found jobs on the North American whaling fleet . |
| 4 | This has been so for decades and there is little on the horizon that threatens to curtail it . |
| 5 | This has been so in the MDC , although efforts were made to foster links with the now-defunct metropolitan county ( Boaden , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | This has been more like Labour conferences of old , with dust ups and cliff hanging votes , unlike last year 's sanitised affair . |
| 7 | One of its themes will have to be the confusion in our morality that the epidemic has exposed , and this has been much in evidence in the past few days in response to the ludicrous concert in commemoration of Freddie Mercury , and then the renewal of the controversial theory that Aids may not be linked to HIV at all , but instead , to cite one example , to promiscuous sexual activity that reputedly attacks the immune system . |
| 8 | This had been so in Emma 's day , and was so still , for once or twice Ruth had asked Rachaela some arithmetical question which Rachaela also found impossible to answer . |
| 9 | This had been there for thousands of years and had defeated the British Raj 's efforts to move it . |
| 10 | These have been here for months |
| 11 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 12 | People 's lives were Digital oriented : many had been there since finishing second level school or university … life outside Digital was unthinkable . |
| 13 | Cos this is quite strong stuff I 'm gon na give you because that 's , once that 's been there for a week or two it 's hard to get it shifted . |
| 14 | Oh that 's been all over the fucking floor ! |
| 15 | I think with regard to er I mean the , the general rule of things with regard to educational er issues and time off for them , erm they tend to be let's say reasonable er about it er but that 's been literally on educational issues . |