Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 All I have ever known of love has been here in this house .
2 Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth .
3 His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event .
4 I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years .
5 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 " .
6 THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years .
7 The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 .
8 Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic .
9 Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals .
10 On the lighter side , the Cessna 195B has been around for some time , having been auctioned at Duxford in April 1990 and , although remaining in the UK since then , has only just been registered .
11 Axil 's existing compatibles are the $13,000 HWS-S210 which has been around for some time , the $17,000 HWS-S310 model 3.0 and the $23,500 HWS-S310 model 4.1 which are due next quarter .
12 The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights .
13 The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms .
14 The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms .
15 We decided to test a model that has been round for some time on the professional market , and is popular amongst tradesman working on side — the Makita 6012HDW Cordless Driver Drill .
16 His section has been over for some time . ’
17 The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year .
18 Four of the committee members are from developing countries , and the experience of several of the others has been mostly in these countries .
19 ‘ Since its launch in 1989 , Drayton Asia 's investment performance has been significantly below that of Dragon , ’ the letter stated .
20 The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year !
21 ‘ After all , he is the champion and he has been in with some of the best fighters of the day .
22 He will fight Jose Ribalta , a 28-year-old Cuban American , who has been in with some of the best heavyweights .
23 Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade .
24 Eight key tasks are identified and work has been underway on these for some time .
25 If this is to happen then there must be far greater participation than there has been hitherto by all members of the school staff in the establishment of general philosophy and purpose of the school .
26 Take the example of Italy , where proportional representation has created permanent instability , with a series of coalition governments that have had to depend on several minor parties whose influence has been out of all proportion to their success in the polls .
27 A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations .
28 It is made from M. spicata , but there are many other mints with various distinct aromas and flavours — garden mint is the most commonly used and has been so for many centuries .
29 And I presume the 2 disallowed were nt in that figure ?
30 But the majority of policemen and women we encountered were not like this and did not engage in little acts of subterfuge to limit what the field-worker saw or heard because either they had nothing to hide or , more rarely , they were not concerned to conceal it .
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