Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 10 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 11 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ After all , he is the champion and he has been in with some of the best fighters of the day . |
| 16 | He will fight Jose Ribalta , a 28-year-old Cuban American , who has been in with some of the best heavyweights . |
| 17 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Something to do with what he 'd been through in some war . |
| 20 | I gathered that he 'd been around in some pretty exciting — oh , do you mean he might have made that up , too ? |
| 21 | Yeah , I would like to do is just mention that it 's so surprising really that er the resources used are out of all proportion to what we used to er do on it , on the other central panel . |
| 22 | There is a danger that a freelance programmer will try to hold his client to ransom if he later realizes that the value of the software he has produced is out of all proportion to the payment he received for writing it . |
| 23 | Well , this get 's back to that , that typo-lecture , typo-visuel thing , the difference between reading type and illustration type , that if you 're actually designing pages that people are going to read , then you have to start with the text . |
| 24 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 25 | But the little tousle-headed , dirty , tanned , bold toddler that was me might well have been up to some sort of mischief involving the beast . |
| 26 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 27 | Carrie suddenly said , ‘ Your mum and I were worried about you , Seb , but all my dad could keep saying was , ‘ It 's a good job I managed to reach you when I did , or you 'd have been up at that farmhouse for another week . ’ ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 29 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
| 30 | By now you should have been out on several practice walks and determined your state of fitness . |