Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have [be] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That truck has been there at least three days . ’ |
| 2 | This change has been chiefly in the direction of the broadening of its outlook on life . ’ |
| 3 | Seismic operations have been underway since late 1990 with more than 4,000 km recorded so far . |
| 4 | For the last fortnight some prisoners have been here in person . |
| 5 | The contributions to this issue have been mainly from the London staff but this should be more balanced next issue as I 'll be chasing you lot in Canterbury for contributions . |
| 6 | Now he he ca n't do that now because there 's a public alleyway through , and the public alleyway has been here at least since sixteen ninety one . |
| 7 | The French team have been together since Sunday — and even that was not enough for Fouroux . |
| 8 | With a brass section that cheerfully joined in any chorus they could remember complete with formation instrument swaying and excellent drums , double bass and guitar , it was easy to see that this band have been all over the world together . |
| 9 | I do not believe it is disputed that this factor has been powerfully in operation recently . |
| 10 | ‘ This outfit has been together for almost three years , everyone knows each other , we all get on and there 's no prima donnas etime . ’ |
| 11 | His judicial appointments were much criticized on the ground in effect that ‘ Halsbury appointed to the High Court , and to a lesser extent to the county court , men of little or no legal learning whose previous career in public life had been largely in the service of the Conservative Party or else were relations of his own ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Such policies have been directly against the interests of disabled people , whose economic position and need for housing with particular physical characteristics mean that the private sector has little to offer . |
| 14 | At first Canadian settlement had been largely along the border with the United States , south of the 50th parallel , and American railway companies had taken Canadian grain to the world market . |
| 15 | Roman Catholicism has been more in line with the other great world religions in insisting that mysticism is only for a few chosen souls and that , unless one has this special propensity , mysticism can be a serious health threat . |
| 16 | It had been so dry that two days under the warm sun had been enough without letting it stand in stooks or draping it on the hedges . |
| 17 | At the time of the so-called race riots , Shanti and her friends were discussing the events in Manchester , and agreeing that the whole sad business had been more about unemployment than about race . |
| 18 | Isabel 's personal integrity had been there in her clear gaze all the time , if he 'd been thinking with his head instead of with his emotions . |
| 19 | ‘ Or maybe she just learned from a more rational neighbour that the real Delia has been abroad for six months . |
| 20 | It had disturbed her enough , and even if the unwritten reproof had been solely in her own imagination she was not about to look again and check it . |
| 21 | Over the years a niggling rivalry has been much in evidence between the two clubs , although Whaddon have progressed to a much higher standard of football . |
| 22 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 23 | You think of the people , I mean , these people have been there for all those years |
| 24 | After all , the leading ministers had been continuously in office for the past ten years , and had achieved many of their declared objectives . |
| 25 | Some of the trees in this ancient woodland have been here for more than 300 years . |
| 26 | The Jordanians are doing a magnificent job , keeping , keeping the show going erm people in those camps in many cases have been there for 4,5 or 7 days . |
| 27 | For instance , many firms have been perpetually on the brink of buying up a broker but brokers are often quick to deny it . |
| 28 | Poor Sam had been backwards at coming forwards , she told herself . |
| 29 | Previous investments in Eastern Europe have been mainly in the form of joint ventures . |
| 30 | Up to now the unity talks between the SARB and the black SARU have been far from smooth . |