Example sentences of "the [noun] has been [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 2 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 3 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 4 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 5 | Service intervals of 3000 miles , plus an initial 500-mile check , mean the car has been back to the Dartford factory five times since April and have produced bills for a total of £826.05 , although £96.50 of that was to replace one of the 205/45 ZR16 Goodyear Eagle GS-D tyres , which had collected a nail in its tread . |
| 6 | Since then the search has been on to acquire a Lockheed Constellation for the collection . |
| 7 | Yes I know what Chairman yes of course the bridleways and bridleway then you expect to find er the horse has been along |
| 8 | The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming . |
| 9 | So the fact that the vehicle has been out on shall we a mor a morning delivery and the the back shift man comes in and has a look at it , he would then have to do it all again . |
| 10 | However the very fact that the product has been around for so long and is so well established in the corporate market place that makes it a worth taking seriously . |
| 11 | The record has been out for a couple of years , and it 's called ‘ Electric Counterpoint ’ . |
| 12 | The concept has been around for at least 30 years ; the American Hospital Supply Corporation was receiving electronic purchase orders from the hospitals it supplied in the early 1960s . |
| 13 | Service spokeswoman Rosemary Sandford said : ‘ It 's a very important appeal and it reflects how popular the service has been up to now . |
| 14 | All being well , the skies will part once or twice during the festival — only the second time the event has been out in the open air . |
| 15 | Of course , the Apache has been out of production since 1965 when the last of the PA-23–235s was built . |
| 16 | In marriages in which only one of the partners has been down the aisle before , the number of divorces has jumped 67 per cent since 1980 . |
| 17 | i have not heard of a similar setup at least — the only player who is remincent in norway of flo and almost as good in the air has been out injured this season so the setup has not been tried and maybe never will — at least it shows that coach Egil ‘ Drillo ’ Olsen — thinks — which might not be said of Mr Turnip . |
| 18 | The journalist spends time on the story and then discovers that the subject has been around for years . |
| 19 | These little thumb print things along the , along the sides are called the marks and the down to the sea those marks disappear and you get this silvery appearance , so it 's very plain if you 've got these that the salmon has been up there just in the upper which is exactly we had , hope we had happened |
| 20 | ‘ The human has been back , ’ he announced . |
| 21 | The Spaniard has been down before , but he has never been counted out . |
| 22 | The book has been out several months , of course , now . |
| 23 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 24 | The idea has been around for ages , of course — people using two thin woollen sweaters rather than one thick . |
| 25 | The company has been out telling run-of-the-mill customers not to expect any serious deliveries at least until October . |
| 26 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 27 | Personally I can not see what all the fuss has been about . ’ |
| 28 | I must confess that in the case of Mariss Jansons , I have ( on record at least ) so far failed to hear quite what all the fuss has been about . |
| 29 | The tank has been up and running for eight months : pH is 7.8 , with 15°GH and 12°KH . |
| 30 | To dispel the myth that AIDS is a gay disease you argue ( The Politics of AIDs NI 169 ) that the disease has been around ‘ from the very beginning ’ but that gays succumbed more quickly than straights . |