Example sentences of "[adv] been [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Places such as Ceylon , Colombo , Port Said , the Suez Canal , had only been names in textbooks and beyond her wildest dreams . |
| 2 | Whether or not the USSR will increase oil exports and whether it can do so have long been areas of heated debate . |
| 3 | There have long been stories of mysterious sounds at sea : haunted eerie calls in the night , mermaids singing , sirens luring sailors on to the rocks . |
| 4 | There have long been stories of human giants in legend and mythology . |
| 5 | The donor is Mr James Campbell , of the Kilberry family who have long been experts on piobaireachd . |
| 6 | The third principle is one that the Danes have long been sticklers for — the democratic accountability of European government . |
| 7 | There have long been rumours of putting bolts on Bosigran routes where the belays are difficult to arrange . |
| 8 | Social and economic inequality have long been features of our society , but such inequality does not always have the same implications for health status . |
| 9 | There had long been bickerings between the monks of the cathedral church at Canterbury and the neighbouring monastery of St Augustine 's just outside the city wall . |
| 10 | In reality , like the Visigoths , they had long been neighbours of the Romans . |
| 11 | The film industry and the export of works of art , so far primarily the joint responsibility of the OAL and the Department of Trade and Industry , have long been candidates for transfer to an enlarged arts department . |
| 12 | Germany , Spain , Greece , Portugal and Italy have all been dictatorships in the last fifty years , some of them recently . |
| 13 | The supermarket , the fast-food joint , the parking lot have all been projects of the practice : but a Macdonalds which floats , a parking lot with 20 cars deeply buried under asphalt , and its most celebrated work , the series of catalogue stores for the Best company where boxes are smashed into and eroded , with trees growing through them , façades peel or tilt , distorting the relationships between the predictable elements of the landscape . |
| 14 | France , Spain and Italy have all been stalwarts of the EC . |
| 15 | Workers , clients and the general public have all been victims in this laissez faire environment . |
| 16 | Socialite Lyn Bari , nightclub chanteuse Lizabeth Scott , ecdysiast Rita Hayworth , fiery senorita Dolores Del Rio : they had all been names in his little black book . |
| 17 | Unless it was sentimental to want to remember a time when he and this girl had not been strangers to each other . |
| 18 | Well I , I still do look er y you know but not er m you see last year th there 's not been bargains with erm , who was it who went bust ? |
| 19 | Up to now the Japanese have not been leaders in disc design . |
| 20 | It was not that she was unattractive , or that there had not been offers for her . |
| 21 | There 've not been trains in Barney for 30 years ; a lot of them had never seen one in their lives . ’ |
| 22 | Many of these had not been Christians for very long . |
| 23 | Of course , the fourteen years since she had moved into the Bayswater house had not been years of unremitting misery and depression . |
| 24 | For example , there have already been reports of hospitals giving preference to patients of fundholding general practitioners . |
| 25 | Alan Miller , secretary of the reporters ' association , said there had already been talks about a major research project into the hearings system , and they welcomed Lord Fraser 's announcement . |
| 26 | The Library 's budget is very tight this year , and there have already been questions over whether the Library should be carrying the cost of the large number of pesticide-related publications we currently take . |
| 27 | There had already been examples in the fifties , notably Delmer Daves 's Broken Arrow , Robert Aldrich 's Apache and Sam Fuller 's Run of the Arrow , but it began a new trend in which the Western was appropriated by directors in order to express their liberal views . |
| 28 | Australian Chardonnay has become so popular they have been suffering shortages , but there has always been loads of Semillon available . |
| 29 | There have always been movements of people across the world who have changed the way of life in the lands they have occupied . |
| 30 | However , there have always been leases without rent ( for example , mortgages ) and the statutory definition of a term of years absolute is clear on this point : |