Example sentences of "[been] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one teacher said , ‘ I rather resent people coming in and criticising when they have n't been in on a regular basis ’ . |
| 2 | I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while . |
| 3 | No , Lindsey told herself , as she showered and slipped into a warm towelling robe , it had actually been over for a long time . |
| 4 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 5 | She had been out with a young lawyer once , a bumptious and ambitious man , and a boring one . |
| 6 | The Yorkshire captain has been out with a broken finger since the opening day of the championship season and it was thought he would not be fit until next week . |
| 7 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 8 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 9 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 10 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 11 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 12 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 13 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 14 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 15 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
| 16 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 17 | Is this a new disease , something we 've discovered recently , or has it been around for a long time ? |