Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb -s] be [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 4 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 5 | Service intervals of 3000 miles , plus an initial 500-mile check , mean the car has been back to the Dartford factory five times since April and have produced bills for a total of £826.05 , although £96.50 of that was to replace one of the 205/45 ZR16 Goodyear Eagle GS-D tyres , which had collected a nail in its tread . |
| 6 | But she 'll wear it if she has to , and she wants to go to Lourdes , the priest 's been on to her and she 's … ’ |
| 7 | Since then the search has been on to acquire a Lockheed Constellation for the collection . |
| 8 | Yes I know what Chairman yes of course the bridleways and bridleway then you expect to find er the horse has been along |
| 9 | And then you know , when you check up on it , the following day , you probably find the council 's been back in and forgot to secure it , so we 've got s a nail and some nails and a hammer , and we 'll er just re-secure it and let the the council know in the morning . |
| 10 | Because the machine 's been down since last Thursday . |
| 11 | The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming . |
| 12 | So the fact that the vehicle has been out on shall we a mor a morning delivery and the the back shift man comes in and has a look at it , he would then have to do it all again . |
| 13 | The Consul-General 's been on to me . |
| 14 | ‘ Just till after the bloke 's been along . |
| 15 | However the very fact that the product has been around for so long and is so well established in the corporate market place that makes it a worth taking seriously . |
| 16 | got back home and the post 's been in between time and we 've just got this letter for her to attend on February , I wonder if there 's , if you 've had a mix up ? |
| 17 | The record has been out for a couple of years , and it 's called ‘ Electric Counterpoint ’ . |
| 18 | The concept has been around for at least 30 years ; the American Hospital Supply Corporation was receiving electronic purchase orders from the hospitals it supplied in the early 1960s . |
| 19 | ‘ The phone 's been out of order all week , and the man who came to mend it has broken a lamp I was very fond of . ’ |
| 20 | Service spokeswoman Rosemary Sandford said : ‘ It 's a very important appeal and it reflects how popular the service has been up to now . |
| 21 | All being well , the skies will part once or twice during the festival — only the second time the event has been out in the open air . |
| 22 | All it eat right , is since the stuff 's been back last Sunday , he 's had what we eat , what our scraps left over from dinner . |
| 23 | That 's what the game 's been about , you know , distracting the governor until I was beyond him . |
| 24 | i have not heard of a similar setup at least — the only player who is remincent in norway of flo and almost as good in the air has been out injured this season so the setup has not been tried and maybe never will — at least it shows that coach Egil ‘ Drillo ’ Olsen — thinks — which might not be said of Mr Turnip . |
| 25 | The journalist spends time on the story and then discovers that the subject has been around for years . |
| 26 | This is the first time the kid 's been out so long . |
| 27 | ‘ The human has been back , ’ he announced . |
| 28 | The Spaniard has been down before , but he has never been counted out . |
| 29 | The book has been out several months , of course , now . |
| 30 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |