Example sentences of "it has been [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been up to nine or ten pound for |
| 2 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 3 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 4 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 5 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 6 | It has been more like carnival week in Rio than the death of an iron man . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 9 | It has been there in one form or another since Anglo-Saxon times , probably the first building being of wood . |
| 10 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |