Example sentences of "and [vb -s] been [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all locked away , you know , Mr Michell , and has been for generations . |
| 2 | According to Spicker , this debate is ‘ moribund and has been for years ’ . |
| 3 | I like the idea of strach cos he s a winner ( does nt like losing ) , has respect from players , has top experience … and has been at Wilko 's side throughout the last 3–4 years . |
| 4 | Walker , who has turned 30 and has been at Tynecastle for over three years , will get his full international grounding at a time when goalkeeping problems abound for the national coach . |
| 5 | 37426 was recently overhauled in Glasgow Eastfield and has been with Petroleum and Regional Railways . |
| 6 | The Longhope boat , the David and Elizabeth King , E B , is a solent class self righting lifeboat and has been on station since nineteen seventy . |
| 7 | USL has been courted by other attractive suitors , and has been on track to an initial public offering . |
| 8 | The amateur actor was born with only a third of a kidney and has been on dialysis for the past four years . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , New Zealand is now a dominion too , and has been since September . |
| 10 | He had an accident at work and has been off work for two weeks . |
| 11 | He was made redundant in March 1991 and received payments until returning to full-time work in July 1991 , but suffered a prolapsed disc a month later and has been off work since then . |
| 12 | An interim restraining order was placed on him and has been under appeal . |
| 13 | This series , with accompanying maps , was started in 1950 ( and has been in revision since 1970 ) . |
| 14 | Normidtec covers Halton , Vale Royal and Warrington and has been in operation for 18 months . |
| 15 | She is 24 and has been in prison or special hospital for the past five and a half years . |
| 16 | Exchange control was introduced in 1930 and has been in force ever since , but subject to the provisions of exchange control it was a basic tenet of pre-communist Hungarian law that foreigners had the same rights as Hungarians in all respects ( but for some professions and performing public functions Hungarian citizenship was necessary ) . |
| 17 | This rumour was started the day after the dam was built and has been in circulation ever since . |
| 18 | Of the two , Mr Yates , who will be 81 in November and has been in Congress almost without a break since he was first elected in 1948 , had the easier time of it . |
| 19 | Canon Radford added : ‘ The Archbishop of Canterbury has been informed and has been in touch with Bishop Peter . |
| 20 | The technique was developed by Dr James C. Lewis of Imperial College , London and has been in use since the 1970s , replacing other more elaborate methods such as the use of fish bladders . |
| 21 | For this purpose a new statutory pre-notification procedure was introduced by the Companies Act 1989 and has been in effect since April 1990 . |
| 22 | Those who stress sisterhood rather than equality value a great deal in women 's distinctive approach as it now is ( and has been in societies much less egalitarian than ours ) and do not want it lost in the melting-pot of assimilation . |
| 23 | Nonetheless , implementation independence has had a powerful effect on AI thinking about metaphysical problems , and has been behind McCarthy 's insistence that AI must be defined as the study of intelligent mechanisms independent of their implementation in machines or brains , and hence to a general denial that AI is , in any strong sense , about machines . |