Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A teacher who has been away on a short course including elements of both these skills , and can therefore give useful general advice . |
| 2 | The city has changed so much that anyone who has been away for a couple of years could be forgiven for thinking that he arrived in a time machine , not an airliner . |
| 3 | The trend , in recent years , has been away from a system of strict , item by item controls to broad limitations upon total borrowing . |
| 4 | The British people have not been allowed to express their views through a referendum , although the trend in opinion as measured by opinion polls has been firmly against a Federalist structure . |
| 5 | Operating as Shadowfax Restaurants , the partnership has been together for a number of years , and currently has two Pizza Express outlets in Barnet and Finchley , and part ownership of a pizza restaurant in the West End of London . |
| 6 | Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time . |
| 7 | And when the hole has been there for a couple of days , they can dig another if necessary . |
| 8 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 9 | AS part of the Midland Railway Centre 's development the Narrow Gauge Railway Project has been underway for a number of years with volunteers working to re-create a length of line to both carry passengers into the Country Park and demonstrate the uses of this track gauge . |
| 10 | The important work of slum clearance has been virtually at a standstill since 1939 , only individual houses having been demolished , apart from an area in London intended as a showpiece for the Festival of Britain . |
| 11 | It has been nigh on a full month since we first made a landfall on to the north shore : since we rode in the longboat on the crest of the shining surf and I set my foot withal on this fair land in the name of the King . |
| 12 | If the conditions in which a lineage of animals lives remain constant ; say it is dry and hot and has been so without a break for 100 generations , evolution in that lineage is likely to come to a halt , at least as far as adaptations to temperature and humidity are concerned . |
| 13 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 14 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 15 | When he 'd been home for a month . |
| 16 | If anything , it has even more justified my decision to leave Coventry where I was manager and join Chelsea — I certainly could not have been away for a month if I 'd stayed at Highfield Road . |
| 17 | ‘ I doubt it may have been somewhere in a circle of exiles , plucking that familiar of yours . ’ |
| 18 | At Ruislip , he would have been nominally in a grade one lower than in his Hendon post and would have not been able to exercise his abilities as a mechanic . |
| 19 | I was there on my own , because the Yorkshire Television film crew had been positioned on the roof of the Palace , and would have been quite at a loss but a lady from the Yorkshire Post spotted me and kindly accompanied me for a little while . |
| 20 | The scene at the offices of BAeSEMA , the hi-tech computer design group , may have been more like a Blue Peter set than a serious example of the latest in navy design , but Adml Eaton appeared suitably impressed . |
| 21 | Whenever I motor past , I imagine what a joy it must have been once upon a time to see him in action around the commons and village greens , stroking that famous beard and then scattering the pony and traps with his magnificent blows . |
| 22 | It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission . |
| 23 | Your chances of coming down to London and finding someone who may have been there over a decade ago are not just slim , they 're non-existent . |
| 24 | They 'd have been there about a couple of weeks . |
| 25 | His tomb , said to have been originally in a Ravenna church , has a marble cover which bears a full-length portrait of the recumbent warrior decked out in his best battle-gear . |
| 26 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 27 | Yugoslavia had been effectively without a President or a commander of the armed forces ( a role held by the Collective Presidency ) for several days as the term of his predecessor , Borisav Jovic ( a Serb ) , had expired on May 15 . |
| 28 | He had been Away on a Course when she first joined , and when she met him it was — as far as she was concerned — hate at first sight . |
| 29 | She had been away on a little holiday in Spain and knew nothing . |
| 30 | He had been neither to a great school nor to a university . |