Example sentences of "have been [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The town has been here since 1210 . |
| 2 | The same family has closed it 's delicatessen which has now become an art shop and the butcher whose family has been here for 176 years , closes this weekend . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's married a Welsh girl , has two Welsh kids and has been here for five years . |
| 4 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |
| 5 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
| 6 | All I have ever known of love has been here in this house . |
| 7 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 8 | Mature Student was defined as someone who has been away from continuous education for more than one year . |
| 9 | The June 5 announcement that Foreign Minister Ghozali was to be the new Prime Minister prompted favourable international press comment ; Tehran radio said that he was " recognized by the Islamists as someone who has been away from domestic confrontation " . |
| 10 | His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event . |
| 11 | The little direct interchange which has occurred has been largely between compatible representatives of broadly similar organisations , e.g. Crofters ' and Farmers ' Unions , or between a variety of environmental and wildlife bodies , or among a number of local history societies . |
| 12 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 13 | This has been mostly in agricultural chemicals where tonnages have proved a good fit with Hickson 's type of batch equipment . |
| 14 | Four of the committee members are from developing countries , and the experience of several of the others has been mostly in these countries . |
| 15 | ‘ Since its launch in 1989 , Drayton Asia 's investment performance has been significantly below that of Dragon , ’ the letter stated . |
| 16 | It has been more like carnival week in Rio than the death of an iron man . |
| 17 | This has been more like Labour conferences of old , with dust ups and cliff hanging votes , unlike last year 's sanitised affair . |
| 18 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 19 | Two long-serving ministers , Dr Brian Mawhinney , who has been there since 1986 , and Mr Richard Needham , since 1985 , both return to senior posts in mainland ministries . |
| 20 | The cricket pitch has been there for thirty five years . |
| 21 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 22 | She has been there for two years . |
| 23 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 24 | The carpet has been there for three years and is still in good condition — the only signs of wear are the marks left by ‘ wee Lachie ’ , the Stewarts ' three-year-old son . |
| 25 | It has been there in one form or another since Anglo-Saxon times , probably the first building being of wood . |
| 26 | Its profits record , which has been far from outstanding , suggests that it is wrong . |
| 27 | Both her looks and personality came from a ride to stardom that has been far from comfortable . |
| 28 | But the year since Robert Maxwell 's death has been far from comfortable . |
| 29 | The task of loading and storing the data has been far from trivial ; for one thing , the total raw data in the SAS/LBS for Great Britain at all areal levels comes to some 6–7 gigabytes . |
| 30 | Eight key tasks are identified and work has been underway on these for some time . |