Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] has be [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That sort of knee-jerk anticlericalism has been out of date for years . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I hear the English faculty has been on to Humphrey already , ’ he volunteered . |
| 4 | A sign : ‘ We 're sorry that this escalator has been out of use for so long … ’ |
| 5 | The man who ran the world 's first sub-four minute mile has been back to the track where he made history nearly thirty five years ago . |
| 6 | But our improvement this season has been down to a team effort , not to any particular individual . |
| 7 | Conference , we are all well aware of the terrific financial burden that this union has been under over the last few years . |
| 8 | In mid-Cornwall , for example , over a third of the male population has been out of work in recent years . |
| 9 | The humble raisin has been around for at least 2,000 years , but it has n't always been very popular — particularly in the US where novelty is all when it comes to food . |
| 10 | Do you think they 'll enjoy reading about the things their little boy has been up to ? ’ |
| 11 | IF ONLY the woman had paused for a moment to inspect the hastily scrawled felt tip notice at the top of the stairs : ‘ I am sorry for any inconvenience caused to all our customers during the period that the down escalator has been out of service . |
| 12 | What we do know is that , particularly in the lower reaches of the rivers , they have suffered in the time that man has been around in Sussex , in say the last ten thousand years , very , very dramatic changes . |
| 13 | The strong-running Kiwi has been out for around five weeks after a trapped nerve in his back . |
| 14 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 15 | ‘ Trading in the first quarter of our new financial year has been up to our expectations and is well ahead of the same period last year , ’ he said . |