Example sentences of "have been [prep] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody has been through fur twenty-four hours and the telephone to Chilete , the last village before the summit , is out of action . |
| 2 | Anyone who has romantic ideas of what it must have been like for great women and men to be filled with God 's Spirit should think again if the story of Mary is anything to go by . |
| 3 | £ But I think to give us perhaps a more vivid idea of what it must have been like for ordinary people , these are 3 houses in St Aldate 's that do n't exist any more , they 're down more-or-less where the police station is , erm and we do know exactly who lived there , and who was actually there during the war . |
| 4 | To be greeted by complete strangers with instant derision was a sobering experience , and it vividly reminded me of what it must have been like for those first black people , in the eighteenth century , walking the streets of England freely . |
| 5 | ‘ And imagine what it must have been like before all those modern office ‘ towers ’ were built to dwarf it — especially if you happened to be a traitor . |
| 6 | It is difficult to say what her speech would have been like in 1960 when she first arrived in London . |
| 7 | Wycliffe tried to recall what his own daughter had been like at twenty , which was not so very long ago . |
| 8 | Yes Chairer er I think Vince 's report is a very fair summary of the er the the issues which face us erm truth is , is what we 've been as in this proposed consortium which no doubt will go through with it 's most of the reforms of the N H S despite the er consultation mechanism which they 've gone through you know , but largely these are beforehand given the unaccountable of the N H S management ! |
| 9 | Its tactics up to now have been to in direct sales and in bringing existing value-added resellers ( typically Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and Data General Corp channels ) into the AS/400 market . |
| 10 | It 's like the re , most latest ones have been from like six years ago . |
| 11 | I said you know what she 's been like with this young girl at college you thought |