Example sentences of "have [adv] been [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all erm we 'll you you you 've obviously been round the construction industry a bit . |
| 2 | The situation in the Gulf may now dwarf the Palestinian issue , but no Middle East crisis can be seen in isolation ; a thousand days of protest has assured the plight of Palestinians has rarely been off the world agenda . |
| 3 | Bob Stokes , who was coach of the side when they last won the trophy ( under the guise of Whitburn ) has since been to the final on six occasions ( with Whitburn and Team Scottish Farm ) and lost every time . |
| 4 | The province has since been in the forefront of China 's efforts to reassure foreign businessmen that its door will be staying open for ‘ business as usual ’ . |
| 5 | The carpet has obviously been in the family for years , too , and the Rembrandt is unrestored and almost completely black . |
| 6 | Recently the big news has all been about the latest electronic machines and computer programs for them . |
| 7 | Reform of the rating system has long been on the political agenda . |
| 8 | California has long been at the green cutting edge , and had the bill been passed , other states and possibly nations may have followed in its wake . |
| 9 | Such initiatives petered out in the decades after the war ; indeed , it has only been since the mid 1980s that new attempts have been made , in Nell 's words , ‘ to regain the higher ground ’ , re-establishing the Underground as an influential patron of public art as well as improving the passenger environment . |
| 10 | But this has only been at the ‘ official ’ level ; as Sykes ( 1958 ) and many subsequent studies have shown , loss of a sense of physical security is still one of the major ‘ pains of imprisonment ’ as perceived by inmates . |
| 11 | He barely speaks Italian and in fact has only been to the country of his ancestry once — on a school trip . |
| 12 | It has only been in the last year or so that the Government has started to grapple with major areas of social policy like education and housing . |
| 13 | Jaromil has discovered that writing can be what reading has familiarly been for the ordinary person : an escape , a shelter , a door to the alternative self . |
| 14 | Q My 3-year-old mongrel has just been to the vet to have his teeth cleaned , as a checkup revealed that he had dental problems . |
| 15 | This RS1000 , he informs me , has already been to the Arctic about six times . |
| 16 | But Britain has already been through the ordeal of restructuring needed to meet the fierce competition from Asia and , increasingly , the Third World . |
| 17 | First appearing as tiny black spots on the upper surfaces of leaves , this is the outward sign that the fungus has already been inside the tissue and working for some time . |
| 18 | This , too , has been a frequent component of the instruction , though the emphasis has generally been on the retrieval of information from the stock , with the organization and communication of this information for effective learning left in the background . |
| 19 | Furthermore , the farm worker has generally been among the last to receive citizenship rights granted to the rest of the population — the shadow of the workhouse was not finally removed until 1936 , the Rent Act was not extended to agricultural dwellings until 1976 and even today agricultural legislation manages to override certain of the conditions of the Truck Acts . |
| 20 | There was even a clip from his commando days in Borneo — although the Liberal Democrats ' policy on Dyaks has hardly been at the forefront of the campaign . |
| 21 | I do n't think any MP has ever been to the monetary system to ask for a couple of million pounds , actually . |
| 22 | ‘ No , not like anything that has ever been in the world before . ’ |
| 23 | Hence , a political economy of the urban is scarcely more plausible now than it has ever been in the past . |
| 24 | Although the main emphasis in Jewish eschatology has always been on the fate of the nation , the doctrine of personal immortality ( which originated with Zarathustra 's passionate belief in the justice of God ) seems to have been adopted by the Jews during or after their Babylonian exile . |
| 25 | Val Smith , 35 , who worked for the company for 19 years before she was sacked , said : ‘ Closure has always been on the cards . |
| 26 | Democracy with a strong social policy has always been at the heart of Mr Mitterrand 's thinking . |
| 27 | Family life has always been at the top of Gooch 's list of personal priorities . |
| 28 | The gap in the ESP market has always been at the lower end , and a number of other publishers are catering for this . |
| 29 | However , recreational provision in the field of art and design education is exceptional in that it normally caters for some 80,000 students , many times more than those on courses leading to qualifications , and has always been at the centre of adult education . |
| 30 | This union has always been at the forefront of health and safety issues within the many industries that we represent . |