Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's been unused for more than two years and is now derelict . |
| 2 | It seemed that her brother had been right after all when he warned her that the Decoy Lodge was haunted . |
| 3 | problems which have been outstanding for more than five days |
| 4 | Car production at Tatra has not been profitable for more than 40 years . |
| 5 | Those currently in receipt of Unemployment Benefit , in other words those who have been unemployed for less than one year , can reopen rights to a further year of unemployment benefit if they work in insured employment for at least eight weeks . |
| 6 | It appears that the unemployed are segmented into two groups each of which is accorded different treatment : those who have been unemployed for more than six months and those who have not . |
| 7 | Roger : Yes , in the ES , East Kent will be running a pilot of people who have been unemployed for more than two years . |
| 8 | There should have been light from above and below , but in fact there was almost none , and it was partly because of that , and because it was also rather colder than it had to be , that Quiss had set off something like an hour before to find some of the castle 's attendants . |
| 9 | That run/shot would have been impossible from anywhere BUT the centre of the pitch ( he would have been running across goal and also towards defenders . |
| 10 | Moreover , it has been obvious for more than 50 years . |
| 11 | Some have been unoccupied for more than four years , and most for at least six months . |
| 12 | I 'd never been involved in before as an Area Housing Officer , and just involved with day to day management , but with it being a clearance area it 's a totally different approach , and the sort of things that you deal with are totally different as well . |
| 13 | If you had a ha'p'orth of brains you would have been married by now and living in Jesmond , the best end . |
| 14 | Even if the mastitis has been present for more than 24 hours antibiotics are not used , but a cure takes longer . |
| 15 | Lord knows how long I 'd have been stuck in here before they finally realised I was telling the truth . |
| 16 | ‘ He would n't have been able to anyway because he did n't know what players we have available , ’ said Mr Moran . |
| 17 | The increases have been less of late because inflation 's dropped and we 've reduced our K value . |
| 18 | Effective therapy has therefore been available for more than 60 years . |
| 19 | The writers view the evidence in terms of an early medieval building tradition which has not been apparent until recently because of the variable quality of the surviving evidence . |
| 20 | He has the HLA B8 DR3 haplotype and an 18 year history of ulcerative colitis which has been quiescent for more than 12 months . |
| 21 | When we look at the normalisation movement we can see that it has implications for professional approaches , but it will be argued that the concept itself has been open to more than one interpretation leading to differential impact on professional practice . |
| 22 | And finally , a family-run clothes shop that 's been open for more than a hundred years is closing down because there 's no one left to look after it . |
| 23 | He 's been homeless for more than twenty years . |
| 24 | She had n't been frightened until then but the high panic in his voice infected her . |
| 25 | This is why much of philosophy has been barren for more than 2,000 years and is likely to remain so until philosophers learn to understand the language of information processing . " |
| 26 | ‘ I have been ready to ever since you began this . ’ |
| 27 | Yet I do not doubt that Aristotle and St Paul have done more to frame the Prime Minister 's mind and therefore the destiny of her Government than any thinkers who have been dead for less than 1,900 years . |
| 28 | There is nothing he can tell you beyond what I already have — that as far as we are concerned my mother has been dead for more than twenty years . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Certain highly technical factors , intelligible only to the expert and with which I will not take up the time of this inquest , have led me to conclude that Subject A had been dead for more than nine years and less than twelve . |