Example sentences of "have been [prep] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh that 's not so bad you see I 've been on holiday all last week |
| 2 | It 's not clear where the Lagonda has been since Tony last owned it . |
| 3 | Second , the lion 's share of increased welfare spending since the 1960s has been on programmes most people approve of : social security ( pensions ) financed by tax on earnings , and medical insurance for old people ( Medicare ) . |
| 4 | This is Red Rock West ( QFT ) , a beguiling and modest little thriller which delves into the dark and murky emotions lurking underneath the sleepy face of a tiny American town — and it is as good a film noir as has been on show this year . |
| 5 | His first position was with the old Edinburgh Corporation as a trainee valuer and he has been with Lothian Regional Council since reorganisation in 1975 . |
| 6 | Mr Essex , who taught the renowned singer and conductor at Sevenoaks School , in Kent , has been at Ayton 18 years . |
| 7 | Willie Crosbie , who has been at Castlebrae High School for 15 years , was presented with the Woman magazine award yesterday , in recognition of his efforts to turn around the school 's unenviable reputation . |
| 8 | The foursome , whose single End Of The Road has been at number one in the States for the last three weeks , were barred from entering New Orleans to do their live satellite link-up with the Beeb show . |
| 9 | The historical tendency , certainly since the end of the war , has been to de-skill this function by using NC machines . |
| 10 | Futch has been around boxing most of his life and he knows what an underdog can do if he gains confidence . |
| 11 | Texas Instruments has been in Japan 25 years , has around $1,000m in Japan-based revenues and — in direct contrast to Intel Corp — is a significant manufacturing presence , with four plants employing 3,500 in manufacturing plus another 2,000 in sales and administrative jobs . |
| 12 | Kendall has been in Spain this week but will watch his new club at Southampton on Saturday and take charge on Monday . |
| 13 | Kendall has been in Spain this week but will watch his new club at Southampton on Saturday and take charge on Monday . |
| 14 | Certainly the growth of the church has been in part due to the excellence of its leadership . |
| 15 | The desire to pass as a member of the preferred sex has been in part satisfied by surgery . |
| 16 | Later , when I consulted on another matter a British doctor who has been in Kampala some thirty years , he stated that he ‘ never advises patients to take mefloquine . |
| 17 | Peter Anderson , a seasoned Kenya farmer , has been in Salisbury this week . |
| 18 | In all matches , competitive and friendly , Charlton has been in charge 65 times ( 33 away , 32 in Dublin ) and has suffered defeat just nine times . |
| 19 | Nigel will be just as safe in IndyCar racing as he has been in Formula One , if not safer . ’ |
| 20 | Instead for many , many years there has been in Channel 4 a culture , which allowed you to expect these matters to be dealt with properly , without being made to feel that you were being perverse in raising the issue yet again or that you were making a point or a special case . |
| 21 | The IDA chief executive , Kieran McGowan , has been in Boston this week . |
| 22 | Desi Grew has been in jail several times for terrorist offences , and Martin McCoffey has left Dungannon Council just a few weeks ago . |
| 23 | I 'd been with Francis three years , living in his house , sleeping in his bed , caring for our child . |
| 24 | But he has got the sort of acidy sort of alcohol smell on his breath just like you 'd been on spirits all night or whatever , any sort of you know , wine and it 's not a beer sort of smell . |
| 25 | The bloodless Norman conquest initiated by David I in Scotland was almost as effective as William the Conqueror 's had been in England 60 years earlier . |
| 26 | Thus although the rating tasks performed in this study are not uncorrelated with the risk and accident estimates previously obtained for the stimuli from Study 2 there is no reason to assume that subjects were unnaturally concentrating on risks in the way they may have been for Studies 1 and 2 . |
| 27 | The fragmentary remains from Eccles have been interpreted as the figures of two gladiators , although , in light of the subjects of other figural designs in Britain ( see below ) , this might also have been a hunting scene ( or could have been of figures other than gladiators ; see the drawing of Cupids as gladiators : pI . |
| 28 | Aethelwald Moll , who became king of Northumbria in 759 , may have been of Deiran royal descent ; his power-base certainly seems to have been in Deira ( see below , p. 150 ) . |
| 29 | Yeah That 's the only bit I hated I 'd rather have been at work all week and I did n't |
| 30 | Nathan must have been on deck all night . |