Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hear the English faculty has been on to Humphrey already , ’ he volunteered . |
| 2 | As we know , the FORM , or pattern shaping , is an integral part of the Electronic E-6000 , but it has been around on Passap System machines as the Form Computer Program for ten years or so , and to many knitters it is still surrounded by mystery and suspicion . |
| 3 | The idea has been around for ages , of course — people using two thin woollen sweaters rather than one thick . |
| 4 | The theory of risk compensation , which has been around for years , says that drivers adjust the amount of risks they take to keep their perceived level of risk constant . |
| 5 | Another group , the Ridgewood-Bushwick Senior Citizen Council , has been around for years without promising amenities like that ; one of Bushwick 's biggest employers , it has stuck to various welfare and housing services . |
| 6 | The journalist spends time on the story and then discovers that the subject has been around for years . |
| 7 | What we do know is that , particularly in the lower reaches of the rivers , they have suffered in the time that man has been around in Sussex , in say the last ten thousand years , very , very dramatic changes . |
| 8 | Top End , which supports X/Open 's Distributed Transaction Processing model and XA Resource Manager interface , has been up on NCR 3000s since May of 1991 , and is now in use at multiple sites . |
| 9 | That puppy-dog expression of one who has been up to mischief and is worried you will find out but knows you will forgive him anyway . |
| 10 | Road pricing has been up for discussion for some time as a possible way of alleviating the high levels of traffic congestion in many city centres . |
| 11 | In practical terms they call for the government to help buy and protect the Mar Lodge Estate — 77 000 acre plot of land in the Cairngorms which has been up for sale since May . |
| 12 | He has been back to Wirral once since then , in 1988 . |
| 13 | Graham Townsend has been back at work for only 4 weeks . |
| 14 | The £700,000 striker missed the last two games with a badly bruised shoulder , but he has been back in training for the last couple of days and will have a late fitness check tonight . |
| 15 | THE Brain Club , whose attention to detail ( oh , all right , its intelligence ) was questioned here a couple of months ago , has been back in touch . |
| 16 | She has been down in Dorset . |
| 17 | The Turbo Ninety has been out since October 1986 and is available on the secondhand market , so I would go for one of those If you do buy a Turbo Landy then check its service history as neglected oil changes in early life will show up later on |
| 18 | That sort of knee-jerk anticlericalism has been out of date for years . ’ |
| 19 | Munro has been out of rugby since his complex leg break in April , 1990 , an injury that forced him to drop out of Scotland 's tour to New Zealand that summer . |
| 20 | In mid-Cornwall , for example , over a third of the male population has been out of work in recent years . |
| 21 | Her husband has been out of work for three years , but her life as the breadwinner was quite unlike his . |
| 22 | He has been out of work for years . |
| 23 | The first step in achieving this objective is to guarantee a place on Employment Training ( ET ) for everyone who has been out of work for a long period of time . |
| 24 | Builder Ivan James has been out of work for a year . |
| 25 | Ivor Jones has been out of work for six months . |
| 26 | The former Everton skipper , who has been out of work since January , has landed a plum job in the country of the world 's richest man . |
| 27 | Fiona , who has been out of work for six years , lives in Abbeyhill , Edinburgh , with her daughters , aged 22 months and six , on a weekly income of £68.15 from income support . |
| 28 | IF ONLY the woman had paused for a moment to inspect the hastily scrawled felt tip notice at the top of the stairs : ‘ I am sorry for any inconvenience caused to all our customers during the period that the down escalator has been out of service . |
| 29 | The catering vehicle will be based on the underframe and some of the body members of former 42-seat passenger coach No. 3 which has been out of service for a number of years . |
| 30 | Mo Johnston has been out of favour at Everton for some time . |