Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pron] [vb base] [been] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 So if you 've been under pressure lately , try Seven Seas Vitamin B complex , which cost £2.99 for 60 capsules or Vitalert For Stress with B-vitamins , £2.89/30 .
2 So if you have been in the scheme all your life , you would have a half pension and a lump sum — which is tax free — of 1 ½ times your earnings .
3 However , those who are unemployed , especially if they have been for some time , may find it is more important to send out as many letters as possible , in the hope of getting some response .
4 Some people can feel very intimidated and experience a temporary crisis of confidence , especially if they have been in employment which is entirely unrelated to nursing .
5 Again we 're back to the the the same arguments on the capital receipt and I do n't intend to begin re-rehearsing those but quite frankly , I mean I would n't claim by any to have a vast or a a slightly deeper knowledge of housing finance but obviously since you 've been on the council the same length of time as I have , I mean you 've got even less .
6 A wag in the crowd quipped that it is so long since they have been in evidence , police enquiries are being hampered because no one can name or describe them .
7 Notwithstanding the views that have found favour with others I consider this to be a reasonable construction of the statutory provisions and I am comforted in the fact that , apart from an attempt to tax airline employees , which was taken to the special commissioners who decided in favour of the taxpayer , this has been the practice of the Inland Revenue in applying the relevant words where they have occurred in the Income Tax Acts for so long as they have been in force , until they initiated the present cases .
8 I have been in favour of regional government for as long as I have been in politics .
9 we know we 've had especially when you 've been around it to , ooh
10 I says I know , you have n't been to see your team here , he says right once you 've been to Wembley the second time 's never as good it 's just that
11 If these twin policies are to have any effect in reducing geographical inequalities , they need to be pursued more vigorously than they have been in the past .
12 But now I think , just because I 've been to prison there 's nothing wrong with me .
13 Just because I 've been in front of a camcorder !
14 You 'll enjoy the holiday much more if you 've been to France and faced your ghosts . ’
15 ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled .
16 Ever since I 've been on board .
17 Gill , 27 , said last night : ‘ Ever since I have been in football I have yearned for a chance to play in Europe .
18 So , we if we our receptionist if we can say those are our key specifications , again it 's a loose idea this is not easy sometimes to look into it , partly because we 've been in our jobs for quite a while and you know we do n't , we can clarify it , but think about your subordinates and people that might be trained .
19 In America where initially it was done one state after another , it actually has changed quite a lot and erm the developments have been very interesting , partly because they 've been in the courts rather than in Congress .
20 ‘ I like to go to confession straight after I 've been to the hairdresser , ’ said Lili .
21 These will be concerns for his successor as David will take his leave of the Education Department at the end of July and his immediate plans are more leisurely now than they have been for many years .
22 ‘ Lower interest rates and current house price levels mean that house are more affordable now than they have been for over 20 years . ’
23 Supporters of gun control are in a stronger position now than they have been at any time since 1968 , after the shootings of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy .
24 ‘ But I have watched you a little since you have been in this house .
25 Well if we 've been on a drive like you are
26 You 've never had those before , not even when we 've been on tour . ’
27 Even when I 've been in hospital , for this , the two of you gang up . ’
28 Even when you 've been in a
29 I could 've come earlier cos I 've been over Tracey 's since quarter past one , as I was coming out the Jehovah Witnesses were coming out
30 He said softly as he looked up at a gull wheeling above coral roofs : ‘ Perhaps you would care to tell me instead where you have been since yesterday morning , and what has happened to you ? ’
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