Example sentences of "have [be] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 2 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 3 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 4 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 5 | THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years . |
| 6 | The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 . |
| 7 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 8 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 9 | On the lighter side , the Cessna 195B has been around for some time , having been auctioned at Duxford in April 1990 and , although remaining in the UK since then , has only just been registered . |
| 10 | Axil 's existing compatibles are the $13,000 HWS-S210 which has been around for some time , the $17,000 HWS-S310 model 3.0 and the $23,500 HWS-S310 model 4.1 which are due next quarter . |
| 11 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 12 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 13 | We decided to test a model that has been round for some time on the professional market , and is popular amongst tradesman working on side — the Makita 6012HDW Cordless Driver Drill . |
| 14 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 15 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 16 | But this is not a fight Mason imagines he can lose and much of the interest tonight will focus on his ability to handle a taller opponent who has been in with better men . |
| 17 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 18 | Take the example of Italy , where proportional representation has created permanent instability , with a series of coalition governments that have had to depend on several minor parties whose influence has been out of all proportion to their success in the polls . |
| 19 | Trinity Mill has been out of commercial use since the 1930s but is fortunate enough still to retain its fine internal , breastshot wheel , as well as a number of other remains , including a bolter , chaff-chutter and sack scales . |
| 20 | I tend to favour the idea that people who have not been out of business too long could probably play a valuable role , although I accept that , if someone has been out of active business life for two or three years , his contacts and awareness of up-to-date affairs may have changed . |
| 21 | Schmeichel has been out for two matches with a poisoned hand . |
| 22 | Something to do with what he 'd been through in some war . |
| 23 | I 'd been out with other boys other than Keith but they never touched me . |
| 24 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 25 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 26 | But the little tousle-headed , dirty , tanned , bold toddler that was me might well have been up to some sort of mischief involving the beast . |
| 27 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 28 | Carrie suddenly said , ‘ Your mum and I were worried about you , Seb , but all my dad could keep saying was , ‘ It 's a good job I managed to reach you when I did , or you 'd have been up at that farmhouse for another week . ’ ’ |
| 29 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
| 30 | By now you should have been out on several practice walks and determined your state of fitness . |