Example sentences of "[adj] have been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been mostly in agricultural chemicals where tonnages have proved a good fit with Hickson 's type of batch equipment . |
| 2 | This has been so for centuries , and afflicts all nations . |
| 3 | This has been so for the Cape Verdians for close on 300 years , from the time when the original emigrants first found jobs on the North American whaling fleet . |
| 4 | This has been so for decades and there is little on the horizon that threatens to curtail it . |
| 5 | This has been so in the MDC , although efforts were made to foster links with the now-defunct metropolitan county ( Boaden , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | This has been more like Labour conferences of old , with dust ups and cliff hanging votes , unlike last year 's sanitised affair . |
| 7 | One of its themes will have to be the confusion in our morality that the epidemic has exposed , and this has been much in evidence in the past few days in response to the ludicrous concert in commemoration of Freddie Mercury , and then the renewal of the controversial theory that Aids may not be linked to HIV at all , but instead , to cite one example , to promiscuous sexual activity that reputedly attacks the immune system . |
| 8 | The 28 year old has been there since for 13 months . |
| 9 | This had been so in Emma 's day , and was so still , for once or twice Ruth had asked Rachaela some arithmetical question which Rachaela also found impossible to answer . |
| 10 | This had been there for thousands of years and had defeated the British Raj 's efforts to move it . |
| 11 | The 80s had been all about obsessional lifestyles , body consciousness , diet fads , work-out videos , designer leotards , Reeboks and Aqua Libra . |
| 12 | In so saying , Fortescue had all but admitted that Henry V had been ahead of his time . |
| 13 | At the beginning of the century , Dudo of St Quentin produced the argument that , since the homage of Duke Rollo of Normandy in 911 had been purely in gratitude for his baptism , it did not mean , either for himself or for his successors , that Normandy was a fief . |
| 14 | Deltic ‘ Tulyar ’ and the Class 45 have been away from the Centre attending Laira Open Day , whilst Class 44 ‘ Great Gable ’ and Class 24 ‘ Experiment ’ attended the Cambridge Open Day . |
| 15 | He 's supposed to have been there at half past nine ! |
| 16 | These have been here for months |
| 17 | The boy was almost sure to have been home at intervals , if only for a change of clothing . |
| 18 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 19 | People 's lives were Digital oriented : many had been there since finishing second level school or university … life outside Digital was unthinkable . |
| 20 | It is up for sale and the Chinese have been here for a fortnight having a look around it . |
| 21 | Of the 500 inhabitants recorded in 1861 , 247 had been there for at least ten years , 125 were children born since the previous census , and 128 ( 65 males and 63 females ) were newcomers , mostly from neighbouring parishes . |
| 22 | Cos this is quite strong stuff I 'm gon na give you because that 's , once that 's been there for a week or two it 's hard to get it shifted . |
| 23 | Oh that 's been all over the fucking floor ! |
| 24 | I think with regard to er I mean the , the general rule of things with regard to educational er issues and time off for them , erm they tend to be let's say reasonable er about it er but that 's been literally on educational issues . |
| 25 | So far as terminals are concerned , the trend of the 1980s has been overwhelmingly towards the setting up of private distribution depots , so running down BR 's own facilities . |