Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 2 | Well this is erm as I say we , we , we could 've been somewhere in the region of two hundred and fifty thousand just on the I T issues alone . |
| 3 | I must 've been out at the wrong time . |
| 4 | Purists might argue he should 've been out in the colds using his sketchbook , instead of a camera , but he disagrees . |
| 5 | DEC has been ahead of the field in cultivating computer-aided drug design and other molecular modelling companies , and its latest is Waltham , Massachusetts-based Molecular Simulations Inc . |
| 6 | Chemicals has been ahead of the legislators , with 60 people already trained as manual handling assessors after completing a course devised with the help of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents . |
| 7 | It was in the nature of a revelation but like all revelations , she thought , it has been just below the surface of my mind , lingering unrecognised , waiting , and now I see it and it is a familiar friend . |
| 8 | The reason for this discrepancy is not known ; it might be because there are short-term fluctuations in the rate of lava eruption and that recently the rate has been well below the long-term average . |
| 9 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 10 | Has been probably since the foundation of the club . |
| 11 | Our peasant is starting off today to Roslavl' , 55 miles away , in order to see her soldier son who has been away in the Civil War , and is passing with his peacetime unit by train tomorrow from Briansk further south to the city of Smolensk with an hour 's stop in Roslavl' . |
| 12 | She may also use it as a greeting when she has been away from the kittens for a while . |
| 13 | In this sense the particular manipulation of reality found in the adventure story , at least until the past two or three decades , has been away from the practicalities of extended cohabitation , whether in or out of marriage . |
| 14 | But as someone who has been away from the industry for five years , I see a surprisingly rosy future for the book itself . |
| 15 | The recession has hit all industries and acting has been right in the thick of it . |
| 16 | Funding of the scheme has been largely by the developers of the Gyle Centre and the Scottish Office . |
| 17 | Then again , his fast-bowling policy , more than any other factor , has hastened the decline of the spinner , a decline that has been hugely to the game 's detriment ; and with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of young speed men reaching the Test team and creating further successes , there is little sign that the decline might be halted . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Information has been around since the garden of Eden . |
| 20 | Wilson , who made a quiet yet effective impact in the 2–0 midweek World Cup defeat of Latvia has been around in the game with spells at Derby County , Ipswich , Chelsea and his present club where he is happy but would consider a move to a higher grade of football if possible . |
| 21 | In Devon , in particular , both private and public sector new housing has been predominantly in the larger settlements , especially those within commuting distance of the main urban centres ( Cloke 1979 ) . |
| 22 | The emphasis in his own later work , and of others who have followed him , has been increasingly on the most vulnerable . |
| 23 | The appeal has been shamelessly to the pocket calculator , not the heart ; to the purse , not to pride . |
| 24 | So far as terminals are concerned , the trend of the 1980s has been overwhelmingly towards the setting up of private distribution depots , so running down BR 's own facilities . |
| 25 | In the context of urban and regional geography the debate has focused mainly on employment and the concern has been primarily with the definition of deindustrialization as an absolute loss of manufacturing jobs . |
| 26 | HIGH winds and heavy seas have prevented the salvaging of the 1,500-tonne Danish cargo vessel Bettina Danca , which has been aground on the island of Stroma in the Pentland Firth since last weekend . |
| 27 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 28 | Even if the latter is true , it does not automatically translate into increases in higher level educational streams ; in some countries the main growth at the 16–19 stage has been not in the pre-academic general streams , but in the intermediate ‘ technical ’ ones ( Squires 1989a ) . |
| 29 | Oh all of my stuff has been up in the loft it 's like you say , I mean if they 've been double wrapped and everything and you wash them |
| 30 | The doorstep talk has been mostly of the economy ; Willesden County Court , has dealt with the second highest number of repossessions in the country . |