Example sentences of "have [adv] [been] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's one of the strongest scrummagers in the game yet has rarely been inside a gym in his life , although a few of his international colleagues swear that he must be a closet trainer . |
| 2 | To open up a situation , to broaden thinking which has hitherto been from a limited viewpoint . |
| 3 | The interesting thing has been that each time we have revised the strategy we have been partially right , but it has only been as a result of a whole series of revisits , reorganizations and reassessments , as well as changing people , perspectives and systems , that we seem to have got enough right to be able to fight our corner . |
| 4 | SINBAD has been cleaning the windows in Channel 4 's Brookside since 1984 , although he has only been on a regular contract for the last two years . |
| 5 | Saunders , who has scored 11 goals in 35 international appearances , has not been on a losing side since August 23 . |
| 6 | The intense moments of pain and fear that gripped me were too remote to be understood by anyone who has not been through a similar experience . |
| 7 | The extreme range seems to be from 5 to 6.4 or so , but generally it remains between 4.6 and 5.2 ; it has not been through a major minimum since 1949 . |
| 8 | The increase has not been at a constant rate . |
| 9 | Harry Enfield has just been through a tough day auditioning people for his new BBC comedy series . |
| 10 | The convoy has already been through a Soviet Checkpoint at Marienborn on the West/East German border , Where the numbers of men and vehicles have been thoroughly checked . |
| 11 | The battle , between Diana de Moutis of Art Expertise and Didier Imbert of Didier Fine Art ( organiser of the recent exhibition of Botero sculptures on the Champs-Elysees ) has already been through a first hearing which was won by de Moutis , and an appeal , won last November by Imbert . |
| 12 | Anyone who has ever been to a similar school will know exactly what I mean . |
| 13 | ‘ Any soldier who has ever been in a war , ’ he said at the hearings , ‘ truly hopes he will never see one again . ’ |
| 14 | But I do not think any traveller has ever been in a worse situation than I was then . |
| 15 | Life has always been on a razor-edge of survival and it is surely important to understand those moments in the past when the organic world seemed closer than usual to obliteration . |
| 16 | Since the establishment of the modern presidency in the 1930s and the massive expansion of governmental activity , congress has always been at a disadvantage in its constant battles with the executive arising from the latter 's superior access to information and expertise . |
| 17 | If society in all its aspects has always been in a state of flux , it is highly unlikely that this process will end at any particular time . |
| 18 | Movement , in Western music , even as early as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , has always been in a direction away from the diatonic and through dissonance . |
| 19 | Reid has always been like a terrier chasing a bone on the pitch — opponents never get a moment 's peace . |
| 20 | The investment of research and management resources to build up to a Chinese market has usually been at a higher cost than would be tolerated elsewhere . |
| 21 | It is perhaps doubtful in the present climate that the aircraft could have been kept in the air beyond the end of this year , even if the VA has still been in a position to influence affairs . |
| 22 | New Zealand 's economy has probably been through a more dramatic recent revolution than that of any other Western country . |
| 23 | I have argued that in spite of the formalism of diagrams , binary opposites , levels and meta-levels , structuralism has really been about a mode of interpretation of aspects of culture . |
| 24 | She has n't been for a long time . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's not married , has n't been for a long time . |
| 26 | Has n't been for a few years . |
| 27 | And I think her husband will probably die before she will but erm he cos he 's older than she is even , but erm and he 's not very well , has n't been for a long time . |
| 28 | Dropping anchor and manoeuvring into the quayside puts a good dinghy sailor who has n't been on a small cruiser before under considerable strain . |
| 29 | unless he has n't been near a phone and could n't ring her . |
| 30 | As anyone who has n't been in a coma for the last ten years knows as much anyway , why bother ? |