Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [adv] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fishery has been here for over 400 years , so we want to make sure we maintain it for future generations , ’ said Mr Horne . |
| 2 | Homoeopathy has been around for nearly two hundred years . |
| 3 | The fact is that the material has been around for nearly ten years and no one has ever sued . |
| 4 | Amazingly , it only just noses ahead of DR DOS , which has been around for over 18 months . |
| 5 | They 'll tell you that Excel has been around for too long and its days are numbered . |
| 6 | There is , however , one little car which has been around for almost 33 years , is enjoying a revival in popularity and still holds it second-hand value well . |
| 7 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 8 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 9 | However the very fact that the product has been around for so long and is so well established in the corporate market place that makes it a worth taking seriously . |
| 10 | ‘ This outfit has been together for almost three years , everyone knows each other , we all get on and there 's no prima donnas etime . ’ |
| 11 | Sandra said : ‘ It has been a very worthwhile project from the health and safety aspect by a very successful QC team which has been together for almost three years . ’ |
| 12 | As Labov and Sankoff point out ( 1980 : xi ) , the emphasis in recent years arising naturally from the maturing of sociolinguistics as a research area has been less on purely methodological concerns such as measurement techniques and the presentation of correlational relationships between linguistic and social structure . |
| 13 | That truck has been there at least three days . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ When a person has been underground for so many years it 's a new lease of life ’ ; ‘ it 's just a grand feeling . ’ |
| 15 | The strong-running Kiwi has been out for around five weeks after a trapped nerve in his back . |
| 16 | He 's been dead at least eighteen hours , more likely twenty-four . ’ |
| 17 | Mind you they have done a bit more to it since Wiggie 's been there in as much as she 's had a big curtain put across |
| 18 | He 's been in the business a long time but believe it or not this is the first time he 's been inside for over twenty years . |