Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time and time again he will charge for the snags which are in range , including some of which you may be unaware , or others you may think are out of range . |
| 2 | That puppy-dog expression of one who has been up to mischief and is worried you will find out but knows you will forgive him anyway . |
| 3 | Road pricing has been up for discussion for some time as a possible way of alleviating the high levels of traffic congestion in many city centres . |
| 4 | In practical terms they call for the government to help buy and protect the Mar Lodge Estate — 77 000 acre plot of land in the Cairngorms which has been up for sale since May . |
| 5 | Graham Townsend has been back at work for only 4 weeks . |
| 6 | The £700,000 striker missed the last two games with a badly bruised shoulder , but he has been back in training for the last couple of days and will have a late fitness check tonight . |
| 7 | THE Brain Club , whose attention to detail ( oh , all right , its intelligence ) was questioned here a couple of months ago , has been back in touch . |
| 8 | That sort of knee-jerk anticlericalism has been out of date for years . ’ |
| 9 | Munro has been out of rugby since his complex leg break in April , 1990 , an injury that forced him to drop out of Scotland 's tour to New Zealand that summer . |
| 10 | In mid-Cornwall , for example , over a third of the male population has been out of work in recent years . |
| 11 | Her husband has been out of work for three years , but her life as the breadwinner was quite unlike his . |
| 12 | He has been out of work for years . |
| 13 | The first step in achieving this objective is to guarantee a place on Employment Training ( ET ) for everyone who has been out of work for a long period of time . |
| 14 | Builder Ivan James has been out of work for a year . |
| 15 | Ivor Jones has been out of work for six months . |
| 16 | The former Everton skipper , who has been out of work since January , has landed a plum job in the country of the world 's richest man . |
| 17 | Fiona , who has been out of work for six years , lives in Abbeyhill , Edinburgh , with her daughters , aged 22 months and six , on a weekly income of £68.15 from income support . |
| 18 | IF ONLY the woman had paused for a moment to inspect the hastily scrawled felt tip notice at the top of the stairs : ‘ I am sorry for any inconvenience caused to all our customers during the period that the down escalator has been out of service . |
| 19 | The catering vehicle will be based on the underframe and some of the body members of former 42-seat passenger coach No. 3 which has been out of service for a number of years . |
| 20 | Mo Johnston has been out of favour at Everton for some time . |
| 21 | Stimson , 24 , who has been out of favour at St James ' Park since John Beresford arrived from Pompey in the summer , will make his debut at Peterborough on Saturday . |
| 22 | And he had no hesitation in going back to St James ' Park to pick up the 24-year-old , who has been out of favour with the First Division leaders since the arrival of former Pompey star John Beresford in the summer . |
| 23 | The return of Chettle , who has been out of favour for a month , will enable Roy Keane to revert to his more accustomed midfield position from the centre of defence . |
| 24 | Mr Badillo is a lawyer with a full-time private practice , not a local political activist ; and he has been out of office since 1978 . |
| 25 | Of course , the Apache has been out of production since 1965 when the last of the PA-23–235s was built . |
| 26 | BP announced last night that it had reached agreement with Venezuela 's state oil company to re-activate the Pedernales oilfield in the Orinoco delta which has been out of production since the mid-1980s . |
| 27 | The N2 tank 69523 which has been out of commission for several years now , is slowly making headway towards full restoration , with the lining-up of the axles boxes , re-wheeling . |
| 28 | Milan denied , however , that they plan to cut his current salary , as they have a right to do under Italian rules when a player has been out of action for more than six months . |
| 29 | He 's been very helpful to you since Joanna has been out of action . ’ |
| 30 | RUGBY LEAGUE : Ellery Hanley , the Great Britain and Leeds skipper who has been out of action since last November , suffered a calf muscle injury in training and has been ruled out of for Leeds ' game at Warrington on Sunday . |