Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 2 | ‘ The town has been here since 1210 . |
| 3 | The same family has closed it 's delicatessen which has now become an art shop and the butcher whose family has been here for 176 years , closes this weekend . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's married a Welsh girl , has two Welsh kids and has been here for five years . |
| 5 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |
| 6 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
| 7 | All I have ever known of love has been here in this house . |
| 8 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 9 | Mature Student was defined as someone who has been away from continuous education for more than one year . |
| 10 | The June 5 announcement that Foreign Minister Ghozali was to be the new Prime Minister prompted favourable international press comment ; Tehran radio said that he was " recognized by the Islamists as someone who has been away from domestic confrontation " . |
| 11 | His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event . |
| 12 | The little direct interchange which has occurred has been largely between compatible representatives of broadly similar organisations , e.g. Crofters ' and Farmers ' Unions , or between a variety of environmental and wildlife bodies , or among a number of local history societies . |
| 13 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 14 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 15 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Strangely enough the best stress-buster of all has been around for thousands of years : massage . |
| 20 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 25 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 26 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 27 | The idea of solitary waves travelling along rivers and canals has been around since 1844. it was considered a novelty until the early 1960s , when scientists discovered that two solitary waves travelling in opposite directions need not destroy one another , but could in fact continue unscathed . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 30 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |