Example sentences of "[adv] been [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | I have explained to the hon. Gentleman why the funding for the Housing Executive is not as easy this year as it has perhaps been in former years . |
2 | Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time . |
3 | All mechanical parts seem in very good order and the vehicle has not been in any accidents . |
4 | ‘ Well , I 've always been into all kinds of guitarists , ’ Guy explains . |
5 | Yet , all in all , farming and the farm remained visibly what they had always been in most parts of the world : more prosperous in the developed areas , and hence investing more heavily in improvements , buildings , etc. , more businesslike in many places , but not transformed out of recognition . |
6 | The Chairman of Orkney Island Council Social Work Committee , Councillor Mairhi Trickett denied that any members of her department had ever been to any courses or seminars on the subject of ritual or satanic abuse . |
7 | And there had also been for many years the musical evenings at your parents ' home . |
8 | For a man of my age I have n't been to many funerals , the result of belonging to a much reduced family and having a limited acquaintance . |
9 | Well , I do n't know cos I have n't been to any meetings for months , not |
10 | There is never a month that I am not overseas , and has n't been for many years — long before I achieved my present position . |
11 | But yeah , it 's alright , it 's okay but not a lot 's going on , really , I have n't been in any activities for ages . |
12 | ‘ Of course I have n't been in any rackets . |
13 | Findings from the present study suggest that once people had become established in the homes their quality of life , in the opinion of their relatives , was similar to that of other people who died and had never been in such homes . |