Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same family has closed it 's delicatessen which has now become an art shop and the butcher whose family has been here for 176 years , closes this weekend . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's married a Welsh girl , has two Welsh kids and has been here for five years . |
| 3 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |
| 4 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
| 5 | All I have ever known of love has been here in this house . |
| 6 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 7 | Mature Student was defined as someone who has been away from continuous education for more than one year . |
| 8 | The June 5 announcement that Foreign Minister Ghozali was to be the new Prime Minister prompted favourable international press comment ; Tehran radio said that he was " recognized by the Islamists as someone who has been away from domestic confrontation " . |
| 9 | The little direct interchange which has occurred has been largely between compatible representatives of broadly similar organisations , e.g. Crofters ' and Farmers ' Unions , or between a variety of environmental and wildlife bodies , or among a number of local history societies . |
| 10 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 11 | This has been mostly in agricultural chemicals where tonnages have proved a good fit with Hickson 's type of batch equipment . |
| 12 | Four of the committee members are from developing countries , and the experience of several of the others has been mostly in these countries . |
| 13 | It has been more like carnival week in Rio than the death of an iron man . |
| 14 | This has been more like Labour conferences of old , with dust ups and cliff hanging votes , unlike last year 's sanitised affair . |
| 15 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 16 | She has been there for two years . |
| 17 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 18 | The carpet has been there for three years and is still in good condition — the only signs of wear are the marks left by ‘ wee Lachie ’ , the Stewarts ' three-year-old son . |
| 19 | It has been there in one form or another since Anglo-Saxon times , probably the first building being of wood . |
| 20 | If this is to happen then there must be far greater participation than there has been hitherto by all members of the school staff in the establishment of general philosophy and purpose of the school . |
| 21 | A certain narrow-mindedness has pervaded studies of electronic information as the focus has been predominately by national archives on the preservation of records about the national governments themselves . |
| 22 | Even though there are signs that the world 's economies are beginning to operate closer together in time terms , nevertheless in the past it has been seldom that every part of the world has been simultaneously in total depression . |
| 23 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 24 | It is made from M. spicata , but there are many other mints with various distinct aromas and flavours — garden mint is the most commonly used and has been so for many centuries . |
| 25 | ‘ Or maybe she just learned from a more rational neighbour that the real Delia has been abroad for six months . |
| 26 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 27 | He 'd been here for forty-odd years , so he was the chap behind me , if you like . |
| 28 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 29 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 30 | I told him about my uncle after we 'd been together for six months and , though he was outraged , I persuaded him not to confront Joe or tell anyone . |