Example sentences of "have be [adv] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That sort of knee-jerk anticlericalism has been out of date for years . ’ |
| 2 | Munro has been out of rugby since his complex leg break in April , 1990 , an injury that forced him to drop out of Scotland 's tour to New Zealand that summer . |
| 3 | In mid-Cornwall , for example , over a third of the male population has been out of work in recent years . |
| 4 | Her husband has been out of work for three years , but her life as the breadwinner was quite unlike his . |
| 5 | He has been out of work for years . |
| 6 | The first step in achieving this objective is to guarantee a place on Employment Training ( ET ) for everyone who has been out of work for a long period of time . |
| 7 | Builder Ivan James has been out of work for a year . |
| 8 | Ivor Jones has been out of work for six months . |
| 9 | The former Everton skipper , who has been out of work since January , has landed a plum job in the country of the world 's richest man . |
| 10 | Fiona , who has been out of work for six years , lives in Abbeyhill , Edinburgh , with her daughters , aged 22 months and six , on a weekly income of £68.15 from income support . |
| 11 | IF ONLY the woman had paused for a moment to inspect the hastily scrawled felt tip notice at the top of the stairs : ‘ I am sorry for any inconvenience caused to all our customers during the period that the down escalator has been out of service . |
| 12 | The catering vehicle will be based on the underframe and some of the body members of former 42-seat passenger coach No. 3 which has been out of service for a number of years . |
| 13 | Mo Johnston has been out of favour at Everton for some time . |
| 14 | Stimson , 24 , who has been out of favour at St James ' Park since John Beresford arrived from Pompey in the summer , will make his debut at Peterborough on Saturday . |
| 15 | And he had no hesitation in going back to St James ' Park to pick up the 24-year-old , who has been out of favour with the First Division leaders since the arrival of former Pompey star John Beresford in the summer . |
| 16 | The return of Chettle , who has been out of favour for a month , will enable Roy Keane to revert to his more accustomed midfield position from the centre of defence . |
| 17 | Mr Badillo is a lawyer with a full-time private practice , not a local political activist ; and he has been out of office since 1978 . |
| 18 | Of course , the Apache has been out of production since 1965 when the last of the PA-23–235s was built . |
| 19 | BP announced last night that it had reached agreement with Venezuela 's state oil company to re-activate the Pedernales oilfield in the Orinoco delta which has been out of production since the mid-1980s . |
| 20 | The N2 tank 69523 which has been out of commission for several years now , is slowly making headway towards full restoration , with the lining-up of the axles boxes , re-wheeling . |
| 21 | Milan denied , however , that they plan to cut his current salary , as they have a right to do under Italian rules when a player has been out of action for more than six months . |
| 22 | He 's been very helpful to you since Joanna has been out of action . ’ |
| 23 | RUGBY LEAGUE : Ellery Hanley , the Great Britain and Leeds skipper who has been out of action since last November , suffered a calf muscle injury in training and has been ruled out of for Leeds ' game at Warrington on Sunday . |
| 24 | The landmark structure has been out of action for two years but is now expected to be back in service in July . |
| 25 | Prescription has been out of fashion with gurus since In Search of Excellence . |
| 26 | A sign : ‘ We 're sorry that this escalator has been out of use for so long … ’ |
| 27 | They got fed up when there was one and only a party that has been out of power and living in blinkers for the past 12 years could possibly propose returning to a naked property tax . |
| 28 | But you had to have qualified for it by working , see ? end of the week and the only place I ever had one was at and because the foreman approached me , I 'd been out of work and got the job by writing to it , going to the library and it was in one of the London papers , they wanted men for the tool rooms . |
| 29 | It was like when his Giro cheques from the unemployment people had n't turned up the last time he 'd been out of work ; it was all done to wear him down . |
| 30 | He was from and he 'd been out of work a long time . |