Example sentences of "has [adv] been [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TIM PAGE , photographed above in Vietnam , started work as a photographer in the country in 1963 at the age of twenty , and worked there intermittently until 1969. he has since been back six times — in the early Eighties for The Observer , and more recently to research his book Ten Years After . |
| 2 | The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra 's reputation has long been out of all proportion to its representation on record , at least in the West . |
| 3 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 4 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 5 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
| 6 | He now has two gardeners working full time : Dennis , a grand old boy who has scarcely been out of Gloucestershire in his life — and has been looking after foxhounds for the Duke of Beaufort for most of it ; and Trevor Jacobs , a younger and professionally qualified horticulturist . |
| 7 | She invites me into the living room , pours me a coffee , sits down beside me , slips her shoes off and groans about the working day she has just been through . |
| 8 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 9 | Certainly previous experience shapes present and future conduct but the good teacher or the good manager will not be contented simply with repeating what he or she has already been through without questioning the constraints of the organization which seems to stand in the way . |
| 10 | Knighton has hardly been out of the news since announcing his intention to buy United on 18 August , the day before the Football League season began . |
| 11 | We 're now in the strongest financial position the company has ever been in . ’ |
| 12 | Barry Dale ( left ) the finance director says Littlewoods is ‘ now in the strongest financial position ’ it has ever been in |
| 13 | My daughter thought no more of it than if she had been talking about the delivery of a letter because in her world the fax , like the video recorder , the personal computer and the microwave oven , has always been around . |
| 14 | It was the first time I had ever seen a live tennis match — Wimbledon has always been out of the question financially , and the Midland Bank tournament offered me the chance to see live international tennis at a reasonable price . |
| 15 | One of the exciting things about the erm introduction of this into schools is that we might actually begin to get , from a very early age , erm children clear about that the need to communicate their intentions , and that that 's what actually that 's what mathematics and similar formal systems has always been about . |
| 16 | The deal , which was agreed by the two airlines in January after BA had pulled out of its original proposed $750 million link-up with USAir in December , confirms the strong negotiating position BA has always been in and puts its aim of becoming a global airline firmly back on course . |
| 17 | The deal , which was agreed by the two airlines in January after BA had pulled out of its original proposed $750 million link-up with USAir in December , confirms the strong negotiating position BA has always been in and puts its aim of becoming a global airline firmly back on course . |
| 18 | He has also been out fairly regularly for the past 2 or 3 seasons . |
| 19 | The computer system at the Budapest Stock Exchange has now been up and running for about two weeks , and according to chief system analyst Andrei Bagi , there has been only one minor teething problem . |
| 20 | Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work . |
| 21 | Work by Dolores Piperno , at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama , shows that maize has indeed been around a long time . |
| 22 | ‘ Situations ’ , Elizabeth wrote , ‘ I have sometimes taken from life , as a jumping-off point : but imagining myself into another world , using the eyes of the people I am creating is what my writing has chiefly been about . ’ |
| 23 | Yes my husband my husband has actually been round . |
| 24 | It has certainly been around for a hundred years , and it is probably the most vital of aspect of life as we know it today . |
| 25 | The search for a proper definition has certainly been on in the House of Commons for several years . |
| 26 | This has never been up among the recommendations for this work , and even at mid-price it is n't competitive with those versions listed above . |
| 27 | Remittance Man deserved this change of luck as he has never been out of the frame in his seven previous starts but had only managed one win . |
| 28 | Blue eyeshadow , much reviled for the past five years , is back at Chanel , Lancôme and Rubinstein and has never been out at Lauder — Mrs Lauder is a firm believer in the power of blue . |
| 29 | Tim , who has never been out of the top two in the competition in the last six years , then went on to clinch an exciting final by a narrow margin . |