Example sentences of "have [adv] been [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra 's reputation has long been out of all proportion to its representation on record , at least in the West . |
| 2 | The best-informed guess from those collecting ‘ yellow card ’ adverse reaction reports has long been that at most only 10 per cent of serious reactions , including death , and considerably less than 1 per cent of mild reactions come to the CSM 's notice . |
| 3 | She has not been out of this room for six months . |
| 4 | It seems to me that anyone attracted to practising psychology or psychotherapy or psychiatry has not been so without some needs of their own . |
| 5 | ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door . |
| 6 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 7 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 8 | All she could think of was that they 'd all been in on this — a kind of family Mafia , working behind the scenes to make sure that Lucenzo ended up with everything , his empire untouched . |
| 9 | We 'd never been apart from each other for more than two weeks when I was arrested . |
| 10 | He just disappeared , as if he 'd never been there at all . |
| 11 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |
| 12 | She had let her overwhelming desire feed her imagination ; had read something into his words , his looks , his actions , which had not been there at all . |
| 13 | Perhaps she had not been there at all , in the street , but a phantom instead had taken her place , looking like her , feeling like her inside too , but not her , for she , Rosa , had been in her bed , dreaming . |
| 14 | ‘ Gay , you 've always been rather like that , have n't you ? ’ |
| 15 | He had always been so against any kind of what he called ‘ gobbledygook ’ . |
| 16 | By now they were in Piccadilly Circus , anonymous among the largest crowd Sally-Anne had ever been in without some sort of companion to protect her , or to look out for her . |
| 17 | It had probably been there for some time ! |
| 18 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 19 | Had n't been out since this morning . |
| 20 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 21 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 22 | The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days . |
| 23 | You bozos do n't seem to realise it but if we had n't been there at that Florence Conference , would not be in the leading position it currently holds with the commission to guarantee further funds and to create a positive role for Britain in Europe with the commission to wuk look at the issues that are gon na come up in 1993 . |
| 24 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 25 | I 've never been anywhere like that , to drive through . |
| 26 | But now that she came to think of it she had never been out to any sort of meal with John . |
| 27 | The composition by age of children in children 's homes had always included some adolescents but they had never been together in such large numbers before . |
| 28 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 29 | It 's not been away at all . |
| 30 | One song reveals the damaging influence on their minds of their sojourn in London : ‘ Soccer Fan ’ is a peon of praise to Everton 's midfield cruncher , Norman Whiteside. l CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT Get Ahead ( Mercury ) You can tell that Curiosity Killed The Cat have n't been around for some time . |