Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a new emphasis on the importance of the Word , the trend has been away from hymns , anthems and settings . |
| 2 | THE Lord Chancellor , Lord Mackay of Clashfern , has been strangely at odds with the law during this year . |
| 3 | ‘ No one has been there for years , I would swear it . ’ |
| 4 | This important thought has been constantly at odds with the equally influential notion that we are all blank paper at birth , ready to be entirely formed by our society . |
| 5 | This has been so for decades and there is little on the horizon that threatens to curtail it . |
| 6 | This has been so for centuries , and afflicts all nations . |
| 7 | They were a striking couple — tall , slim and very , very pale against old hands who 'd been here for days or even weeks . |
| 8 | His body was cold-I think he 'd been there for hours . ’ |
| 9 | Once at the hospital , Liz was taken to the delivery room immediately and Mark went off to find the waiting room , which was full of exhausted partners who 'd been there for hours . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd been everywhere in books : I read a lot about exotic places . |
| 11 | ‘ It was a crowd of boys who 'd been together for years — somebody was always up to something . |
| 12 | The invitation must have been largely in terms of a general specification involving basic designs and performance , for the prices varied greatly , depending on the type of hauling gear and the amount of sophistication of the secondary equipment . |
| 13 | In Sweden teachers collected 10 000 slide-rules , which would have been enough for students starting in 1983 and 1984 . |
| 14 | Telepathic communication , for us still the domain of science fiction or fringe experimentation , may be part of a dolphin 's daily life , and may have been so for centuries . |
| 15 | How long Joe had been in the marsh she did not know , but it was a very lonely spot , and he could have been there for hours and hours — perhaps even all through the night , thought Cheryl . |
| 16 | It , too , must have been there for years . |
| 17 | It must have been there for years , abandoned to the plunderers , an illicit plaything for the local children , a welcome shelter for the occasional vagrant like the seventy-year-old alcoholic who had stumbled on the body . |
| 18 | They must have been there for years . ’ |
| 19 | In the North the shrine of St Cuthbert at Durham was second only to that of St Thomas , although his appeal seems to have been particularly to northerners ( 209 , pp.28–30 ) . |
| 20 | I seem to have been here for ages . ’ |
| 21 | The boy was almost sure to have been home at intervals , if only for a change of clothing . |
| 22 | They were in the middle of a meeting and he was irritated that Stevens ' mind — often his entire presence — had been elsewhere for weeks . |
| 23 | If no one had been here for years , why did she fancy she could smell cigarette smoke ? |
| 24 | The earlier specification of the ‘ liberal arts ’ had been primarily of branches of knowledge . |
| 25 | Second , it was based in and expressed a paradox : that the educational reform had been primarily for men ; women were still relatively excluded . |
| 26 | After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed . |
| 27 | Nevertheless they smiled and waved at him as he came in and Deuce , at the tape recorder , came over , arms open , as if he had been away for weeks . |
| 28 | She was sitting on the opposite side of the grate and Louise Carter thought fleetingly how proud Nora had always been of her daughter even when they had been dramatically at loggerheads and how pleased she would be if she could see her now , in her elegant black dress and silver jewellery . |
| 29 | When they first moved far enough into the courtyard to glimpse Gabriel sitting on his cloud , the morning sunshine dazzled eyes that had been indoors for days on end . |
| 30 | ‘ It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place . |