Example sentences of "been around [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you ask medical staff how often they have seen someone die , rather than if they have been around at the time , surprisingly few will say they witnessed the actual event . |
| 2 | Had he been around at the time of my capture I do n't believe I 'd have made it very far . |
| 3 | For those of us old enough to have been around at the time of the birth of rock ‘ n ’ roll , the idea of an advanced course in the music which made both us and our parents jump ( but in opposite directions ) may be hard to accommodate . |
| 4 | If International had been around at the time of the Vikings , there 's little doubt whose paint would have been used to keep those marauding longships in prime condition . |
| 5 | This technique has been around as a possibility for these machines for years , dating right back to the very early 1970s and the S42 , or ‘ peg-board ’ machines . |
| 6 | Alright , so it 's been around since the year dot . |
| 7 | Information has been around since the garden of Eden . |
| 8 | Are they recent arrivals from Norway , or birds which have been around since the autumn migration ? |
| 9 | Sometimes , he assumed the Elder had been around since the Creation . |
| 10 | The two main ‘ attractions ’ , Hawkwind and Planet Gong , have seemingly been around since the dawn of music in one form or another . |
| 11 | Not so surprising , as this is their first official demo , though the group members ( all two of them ! ) have been around on the scene since 1988 . |
| 12 | Pension funds have been around for a century or more , but their modern form was set in 1950 when Charles Wilson , then president of General Motors , set up a fund for his workers . |
| 13 | Lowe ball-nuts have been around for a while and they are one of the best devices of this sort that I have used so far . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Electronics is a universal tool that has been around for a while and which can be used to control electrical circuits — not a common art form . |
| 16 | How come the Europeans accept musicians who 've been around for a while , but we British just pour scorn on them as has-beens ? |
| 17 | 3D spreadsheets have been around for a while , but have tended to be rather cumbersome to use . |
| 18 | ORIGINALLY ON the German Rough Mix label and now sensibly picked up by Sheffield 's Warp label , this one 's been around for a while now and has been described as potentially the next Gat Decor . |
| 19 | The current version is 9.0 version 99 , so it 's been around for a while ! |
| 20 | Just such a product has been introduced into the UK , although it has been around for a while in the US , under the generic name InteSoft . |
| 21 | ‘ Those who have been around for a while and waited on an international chance tend to appreciate it all the more when one arrives , ’ he said . |
| 22 | So , eager to help , she went over to him , he had been around for a while but he was strange so nobody really spoke to him . |
| 23 | the idea of making a boat like this has been around for a lkong time . |
| 24 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 25 | Now , I 've been around for a lot of years and I know a bad girl when I see one . |
| 26 | He was like an old car that had been around in the neighbourhood for a long time , loaned out among your friends , used and passed on , so that when it got to you in your time , you knew what you were getting . |
| 27 | Wilson , who made a quiet yet effective impact in the 2–0 midweek World Cup defeat of Latvia has been around in the game with spells at Derby County , Ipswich , Chelsea and his present club where he is happy but would consider a move to a higher grade of football if possible . |