Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] been [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practical terms they call for the government to help buy and protect the Mar Lodge Estate — 77 000 acre plot of land in the Cairngorms which has been up for sale since May . |
| 2 | The theory of risk compensation , which has been around for years , says that drivers adjust the amount of risks they take to keep their perceived level of risk constant . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The teacher takes on a role as a member of the local council who has been away on business . |
| 7 | All the services listed offer free guidance to anyone over the age of 19 who has been away from education for a significant period . |
| 8 | That puppy-dog expression of one who has been up to mischief and is worried you will find out but knows you will forgive him anyway . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I got a room in the inn , and despite the windiness of the house and the army of earwigs that people it , I was very snug : a friend who has been there in winter gives amusing particulars regarding the draughts that are vocal as well as felt in this palace of the winds ; he found it necessary to nail up his bed-room windows with many plies of blanket , and thus to allow day and night to glide unnoted past , for all was dark — yet were not the breathings of the winds hushed ! |
| 17 | She has been down in Dorset . |
| 18 | She 's been up to unit |
| 19 | ‘ Mind you , it 's no wonder she 's been out of sorts after that dreadful business at the tech … and Major Ford tittle-tattling all over the village . ’ |
| 20 | Cos she 's been out in town all morning . |
| 21 | She 's been there for months — it 's a long-term project … |
| 22 | She 's been down to Birmingham to see our kid . |
| 23 | She 's been back in Scotland for several years now , and she did n't know that Ryan was dead . |
| 24 | It 's erm it 's been very interesting actually this last month because erm talk about your sons joining the enemy erm my second son who 's been up in Cheshire for well , twenty years I suppose he 's just been appointed senior art adviser for Devon . |
| 25 | ‘ No one has been there for years , I would swear it . ’ |
| 26 | No one 's been here for years . ’ |
| 27 | Periodically the abuses surface , there is an outcry — as there has been recently in BANGLADESH — and the system is tinkered with . |
| 28 | The inclusion of the word " reasonably " gives the court a discretion which will be exercised in the tenant 's favour where for example he has made one or two late payments of rent , but not where he has been persistently in arrear throughout the term ( Bassett v Whiteley ( 1982 ) 54 P & CR 87 ) . |
| 29 | Since 1990 he has been either under house arrest or in jail . |
| 30 | He has been out of work for years . |