Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The census has been for many years now an important instrument , among a range of such instruments , in the administration of the welfare state . |
| 2 | But Karen had been on these holidays before . |
| 3 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 4 | Both Father and Mother had been through difficult times financially in their twenties but Father had founded a fine family business in London which flourished and while both of them were wise and sensible about money there was never any lack of it and funds were available for anything that would widen our horizons and education . |
| 5 | They had been in dangerous situations before but none where the stakes were so high . |
| 6 | We 've been through three names already . |
| 7 | Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun . |
| 8 | I mean I 've been in two shops now there 's fifty pound difference like , you know |
| 9 | I travelled the country well , I 've been in other authorities both labour controlled , been in to schools , been in old peoples homes , erm seen their roads , or driven over their roads , and I can assure you , that er in Lincolnshire . |
| 10 | Therefore if we have activists who are put on the panel alib fi safe seats , marginals or unwinnable seats and we 've been in some areas where it 's been unwinnable , have n't we Dick , we 've still canvassed , we 've got the votes up , p places like Macclesfield where they got Nicholas Winterton , where they got that racist Churchill . |
| 11 | It is now recognized that people who have been on weight-reducing diets subsequently have a lower calorie requirement than they previously had . |
| 12 | I have been at those dinners where the merits of our contemporaries are discussed , and where Du Camp , as each new name was suggested , would with infinite urbanity correct the general view . |
| 13 | If those who have been to Arab feasts ever wonder what happens to all that food and ‘ tut-tut ’ over the waste , forget it . |
| 14 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 15 | My children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 16 | My children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 17 | Yes my children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 18 | Yes my children do go to school oh I was going to say , have been for some months now . |
| 19 | Leeds have been up three days ago . |
| 20 | Gray said : ‘ I have been in similar situations before as a player . |
| 21 | They have been in some ways too successful . |
| 22 | It 's been on several days recently . |