Example sentences of "been [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two children in this story have been through very bad experiences . |
| 2 | ‘ The family have been through very difficult times . |
| 3 | and erm I was feeling ill at the time and I , I wondered why because he 'd been through so much suffering , you know , it was a happy release . |
| 4 | Shareholders in Unisys have been through so much misery , the fear that the IBM mainframe blight will soon infect the company is so great that no reasonable offer for the company is likely to be refused — and while the Unisys debt burden is now manageable , it is still onerous for a company of Unisys ' size , but AT&T 's credit remains almost as good as gold . |
| 5 | I 'd been through so many rehearsals of this moment in London . |
| 6 | ‘ Since we broke up a year ago I 've been through so many relationships , and my songs are now a lot more about being really fickle with women , and not knowing who I like , and being really insecure about who likes me . ’ |
| 7 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 8 | But this is my dwelling place and has been for nearly four months now . |
| 9 | And as I said , Mrs Mary she 's the national treasurer and has been for over thirty years . |
| 10 | No , it was Marguerite Bryant now and had been for over fifteen years . |
| 11 | Although a rich resource for trivialisation by the media , the women 's movement in the 1970s succeeded in making issues to do with women 's rights visible in ways they had not been for over sixty years . |
| 12 | ‘ Lower interest rates and current house price levels mean that house are more affordable now than they have been for over 20 years . ’ |
| 13 | And has been for over 40 years . |
| 14 | She opened her eyes and was aware of being in her mother 's bed , where she had not been for over ten years . |
| 15 | For some time the weapons states have maintained that the peaceful trade in peaceful atoms has been for purely peaceful purposes . |
| 16 | I think members will probably by now , be aware that a decision has been taken to leave the offices in Bedford Square where we have been for so many years . |
| 17 | In recent years the alpine trend has been for less adventurous climbing : bolted instant classics from climbers ' such as Michel Piola — safe rock routes with a savage backdrop . |
| 18 | Had been for about eighteen months . ’ |
| 19 | I can have one of these now I 've been the worst I 've been for about six months I really ! |
| 20 | I do n't think he 'd been for about six month . |
| 21 | But it 's been for about two month now , but it 's |
| 22 | From the mid-'50s , where we 've been for quite some time , we 're suddenly into the '60s , 1961 in fact , and a finger-picked instrumental written by Chet Atkins , entitled Trambone . |
| 23 | Although our prediction had been for around 100 validations , based on the transfer of old courses , we will actually be involved in closer to 320 validations . |
| 24 | In Britain — outside the centralised and bureaucratic collective bargaining machinery which typifies the public sector — the trend has been towards more plant-level bargaining , more company-level agreements and generally more participation in collective bargaining by union workplace and management representatives at local level . |
| 25 | But these have mostly been of rather limited significance ( one concerned the supply of taxi cabs at Brighton station ) ; see Utton ( 1992 ) for a review . |
| 26 | Why his Lordship should have concluded that the facts did not give rise to the issue is unclear , but subsequent events have shown that the decision has been of much greater importance for the scope of the right of public meeting than his Lordship imagined it would be . |
| 27 | If the walls belong to the cella , the surrounding portico walls could have been of much slighter construction , even to carry columns 12 ft high . |
| 28 | The player 's display would have been of as much interest to the watching Celtic manager , Liam Brady , as the distressing form of his opponents on Saturday . |
| 29 | Therefore , if we had taken our cue from these public styles , we would have produced a top-heavy account that would have been of only marginal importance to the social ‘ life ’ of the speech community . |
| 30 | Could anti-Semitism , so pivotal in Hitler 's ‘ world view ’ , have been of only minor significance in forming the bonds between Führer and people which gave the Third Reich its popular legitimation and plebiscitary base of acclamation ? |