Example sentences of "[adv] been [adv] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra 's reputation has long been out of all proportion to its representation on record , at least in the West . |
| 2 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |
| 3 | She has not been out of this room for six months . |
| 4 | ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door . |
| 5 | It seems to me that anyone attracted to practising psychology or psychotherapy or psychiatry has not been so without some needs of their own . |
| 6 | He had always been so against any kind of what he called ‘ gobbledygook ’ . |
| 7 | By now they were in Piccadilly Circus , anonymous among the largest crowd Sally-Anne had ever been in without some sort of companion to protect her , or to look out for her . |
| 8 | It had probably been there for some time ! |
| 9 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 10 | Nothing else has changed ; I have n't been here since that day a week after Clare died , and it had the same muddily washed-out look about it then . |
| 11 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 12 | You 've just said you have n't been around for several weeks . |
| 13 | One song reveals the damaging influence on their minds of their sojourn in London : ‘ Soccer Fan ’ is a peon of praise to Everton 's midfield cruncher , Norman Whiteside. l CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT Get Ahead ( Mercury ) You can tell that Curiosity Killed The Cat have n't been around for some time . |
| 14 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 15 | Had n't been out since this morning . |
| 16 | You bozos do n't seem to realise it but if we had n't been there at that Florence Conference , would not be in the leading position it currently holds with the commission to guarantee further funds and to create a positive role for Britain in Europe with the commission to wuk look at the issues that are gon na come up in 1993 . |
| 17 | have n't been there for many years |
| 18 | The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days . |
| 19 | We 'd never been apart from each other for more than two weeks when I was arrested . |
| 20 | But now that she came to think of it she had never been out to any sort of meal with John . |