Example sentences of "[verb] been [prep] [det] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , we all know that productivity growth in the UK has been inferior to West Germany 's over the post-war decades ; that product development has been behind that of Japan ; and that over many years the rates of growth of South Korea , Italy and East Germany were higher than the United Kingdom 's . |
| 2 | Brockbank said : ‘ It has been like that since day one , but many clubs are like that . ’ |
| 3 | It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana . |
| 4 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
| 5 | Once , in a very bad patch , Jasper had been like that for weeks , over a month , and she had lived in terror for the knock of the police at the door , and news about Jasper she had been dreading since she had first met him . |
| 6 | But what it is er they 've been like that for years , like , in the bathrooms |
| 7 | The enquiries have been from those in government , both central and local , researchers as well as students , and schoolchildren . |