Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [adv] [prep] " 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 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 4 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 5 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
| 6 | He now has two gardeners working full time : Dennis , a grand old boy who has scarcely been out of Gloucestershire in his life — and has been looking after foxhounds for the Duke of Beaufort for most of it ; and Trevor Jacobs , a younger and professionally qualified horticulturist . |
| 7 | The child who has just been away from the room has to guess who is the murderer . |
| 8 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 9 | Certainly previous experience shapes present and future conduct but the good teacher or the good manager will not be contented simply with repeating what he or she has already been through without questioning the constraints of the organization which seems to stand in the way . |
| 10 | Knighton has hardly been out of the news since announcing his intention to buy United on 18 August , the day before the Football League season began . |
| 11 | He has always been fanatically into body culture , punishing his muscles to keep them at the peak of definition and tone . |
| 12 | It has always been thus in Ulster tennis which has had an amazing ability over the years to lose its talent to other activities . |
| 13 | The position of former Yugoslavia has always been somewhere in the middle between socialist East and capitalist West . |
| 14 | It is a more muscular breed and , though the emphasis has always been slightly in favour of milk rather than meat , the breed is continually tested for growth and food conversion rates , especially as veal production is important . |
| 15 | It was the first time I had ever seen a live tennis match — Wimbledon has always been out of the question financially , and the Midland Bank tournament offered me the chance to see live international tennis at a reasonable price . |
| 16 | No matter what Bob says or Harry or any other member of the Conservative group , and I accept that they 've always been consistent on it the same as the Labour group has always been consistently against the merger I accept that they 've been consistently in favour of a total merger . |
| 17 | Low Birk Hatt Farm has always been home for my family . |
| 18 | Part of her power is that she has always been there for her children , part of her sadness is that they have betrayed that care by what she sees as dereliction of duty . |
| 19 | On Jan. 28 Goulding said that " one of the conditions which has always been there for the deployment of the UN force in Yugoslavia , namely a stable ceasefire , has now been fulfilled " , although there were still violations of the ceasefire , albeit " comparatively minor " ones . |
| 20 | In effect , the first dog has always been there as a crutch to rely upon . |
| 21 | Palin , among many film triumphs , co-starred with Cleese in A Fish Called Wanda ; Eric Idle has also been consistently on screen . |
| 22 | Stealth will prove to be a valuable asset ; it has often been so in the past . |
| 23 | Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work . |
| 24 | ‘ Then what else has today been all about ? ’ |
| 25 | It has certainly been around for a hundred years , and it is probably the most vital of aspect of life as we know it today . |
| 26 | The search for a proper definition has certainly been on in the House of Commons for several years . |
| 27 | This has never been up among the recommendations for this work , and even at mid-price it is n't competitive with those versions listed above . |
| 28 | Remittance Man deserved this change of luck as he has never been out of the frame in his seven previous starts but had only managed one win . |
| 29 | Tim , who has never been out of the top two in the competition in the last six years , then went on to clinch an exciting final by a narrow margin . |
| 30 | Blue eyeshadow , much reviled for the past five years , is back at Chanel , Lancôme and Rubinstein and has never been out at Lauder — Mrs Lauder is a firm believer in the power of blue . |