Example sentences of "have been [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mature Student was defined as someone who has been away from continuous education for more than one year . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This has been mostly in agricultural chemicals where tonnages have proved a good fit with Hickson 's type of batch equipment . |
| 5 | It has been more like carnival week in Rio than the death of an iron man . |
| 6 | This has been more like Labour conferences of old , with dust ups and cliff hanging votes , unlike last year 's sanitised affair . |
| 7 | Its profits record , which has been far from outstanding , suggests that it is wrong . |
| 8 | Both her looks and personality came from a ride to stardom that has been far from comfortable . |
| 9 | But the year since Robert Maxwell 's death has been far from comfortable . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A certain narrow-mindedness has pervaded studies of electronic information as the focus has been predominately by national archives on the preservation of records about the national governments themselves . |
| 12 | Even though there are signs that the world 's economies are beginning to operate closer together in time terms , nevertheless in the past it has been seldom that every part of the world has been simultaneously in total depression . |
| 13 | He 'd been here for forty-odd years , so he was the chap behind me , if you like . |
| 14 | ( Even so , Valentin 's marriage did not survive and it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that its atmosphere must have been far from normal . |
| 15 | It is the longest time the that the royal couple will have been together in public since the intense speculation about their marriage during the summer . |
| 16 | I doubt if I would ever have been quite to aware of this had we not gone through this disaster . |
| 17 | The Georgian military said the Su-25 had attacked several times during Saturday but had been away by anti-aircraft fire . |
| 18 | The 80s had been all about obsessional lifestyles , body consciousness , diet fads , work-out videos , designer leotards , Reeboks and Aqua Libra . |
| 19 | She had been seriously into pink for a year ; Victoria indulged her with delight and stifled the protests of her own aesthetic sense . |
| 20 | Mr Modrow also criticised the party 's former leader , Mr Egon Krenz , who he said had been far from honest in saying he was a reformer . |
| 21 | Mr Modrow also criticised the party 's former leader , Mr Egon Krenz , who he said had been far from honest in saying he was a reformer . |
| 22 | The visit had been far from successful , for Adam had sulked when offered the four-ten , the so-called ‘ lady 's gun ’ . |
| 23 | The operation had been far from easy , the cable being ‘ … manhandled out of the hold of a steamer , over a pulley and round a drum which measured the speed , and then several times round a brake drum before passing into the sea ’ .5 |
| 24 | Both Croatia and the Lebanon objected on the grounds that Sotheby 's had been far from complete in its discovery process , and was trying to slip out from the case before the evidence of Mr Camber was made available . |
| 25 | He linked the freedom of the foreign-owned press in Africa to the general principle of press freedom , but remarked that its effects had been far from encouraging : the press had done things that he personally was very unhappy about . |
| 26 | Absenteeism and lack of reverence in church had been far from unknown before the Reformation ; indeed such charges were the most frequent cause of appearances before the Suffolk ecclesiastical courts in the fifteenth century . |
| 27 | In later years , Roderick confided that he had been far from happy with the title , for the book certainly was not " elementary " . |
| 28 | Earlier in the day , Jeffrey had been far from happy to learn that the Scotland seven to be chosen from a pool of ten — Hong Kong have increased from nine to remain consistent with the World Cup format — would have around five hours between their ties tomorrow . |
| 29 | Only a few days before an ITV programme had been far from complimentary about some of the Salvation Army hostels . |
| 30 | Ever since 1983 the general mood in the territories had been consistently against Jordanian representation of the Palestinians , even as part of a joint team . |