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 .
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