Example sentences of "and have been [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not one to do double somersaults — I 'm not that acrobatic — but he 's one of the best in the country and has been for a long time . |
| 2 | Do n't because there is at present , and has been for a good many years past , almost nowhere to publish the stories you may write . |
| 3 | It also puts money into the Yorkshire and Humberside Development Association which is wholly involved and has been for the last two years in trying to get large scale erm strategic inward investment into the county , and erm it is a erm awkwardness I think that it 's best to be open about that the planning policy of the county is out of tune with the day factor activities of the economic development side of the of the county council . |
| 4 | Stolen Glances features pictures by ten lesbian photographers and has been at the council-funded Arts Centre for two weeks . |
| 5 | Romero is a provincial film-maker by choice and has been since the 1960s , long before this was common — if indeed it is even now , despite the growth of independent film-making and its important contribution to the artistically enfeebled Hollywood mainstream . |
| 6 | Methodism has made a very rapid progress , and has been of no trifling service in diverting the attention of these sons of darkness from their present condition to the glories of the life to come . |
| 7 | Gavin is also 1990 Junior British Champion in the under 45 kilo category , and has been in the top three of every competition he has ever entered . |
| 8 | All golf and gin and bridge and cars and the right accent and the right money and having been to the right school and hating the arts ( the theatre being a pantomime at Christmas and ‘ Hay Fever ’ by the Town Rep Picasso and Bartók dirty words unless you wanted to get a laugh ) . |
| 9 | All three came from the Midlands and had been at the sharp end of the business as salesmen for distribution companies . |
| 10 | My suit case was ready packed and had been for the last week . |
| 11 | Every night was a milestone , and had been for the past fifteen years . |
| 12 | Septimus , who was a philosopher by nature and had been in a French prison before , made the most of his breakfast in a way peculiarly his own . |
| 13 | A son whose father had Parkinson 's disease and had been in an old people 's home commented : |
| 14 | Does he not realize that the people of Ulster are quite passively tolerating Dublin rule and have been since the 15th of November 1985 . |
| 15 | Spectators are there in thousands and have been since the previous day , before the roads were closed for the Tour 's progress . |
| 16 | Her students , she says , are well prepared for Europe , and have been for a long time . |
| 17 | The S A S have operated in Northern Ireland and have been for a long time . |
| 18 | ‘ Considerable amounts are being spent on replacing them with better services , and have been for the past few years . |
| 19 | We think this exercise is very important and have been among a small handful of organisations in Wales who have been consulted so far . |
| 20 | Both men are American and have been among the best-paid executives of a British quoted company since the merger three years ago of SmithKline , an American drug company , and Beecham . |