Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [art] [noun] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that members in the Republic of Ireland who are over twenty five years of age and have more than a three year no claim bonus have had no increase in premium for over three years and for all other policyholder there has been no increase for over two years . |
| 2 | ‘ Edinvar has been serving tenants for 20 years and Link has been a landlord for nearly 30 years , so we both have a long history of putting tenants first . ’ |
| 3 | The Video Electronics Standards Association in San Jose is not too pleased with one of its members , Dell Computer Corp , which has suddenly jumped up to claim that some VL-Bus products to its standard infringe one of Dell 's patents : ‘ We are both surprised and saddened that one of the companies involved in ratifying the VL-Bus standard would take such an action , ’ said Association chairman Scott Vouri ; the patent appears to claim rights to a computer system receptive to a board that plugs into both a system input-output bus and a high speed expansion memory bus ; Dell has been a member for over a year , having joined the club in February 1992 , and voted to approve the standard ; the group also says that like all the other members , Dell signed a statement indicating no knowledge of any conflicts with its patents . |
| 4 | I regularly attend the AGM of the European Environmental Bureau , which my organisation , the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales , has been a member for over 10 years . |
| 5 | He was fascinated by the corset which gave her a youthful figure and set about reproducing it.In 1968 , they invented the Wonderbra which has been a best-seller for more than 20 years . |
| 6 | MANCHESTER Laps has been an institution for almost 60 years . |
| 7 | Mr Mates , a former Lieut Col in the Queen 's Dragoon Guards , was chairman of the Commons Select Committee on Defence and has been an MP for nearly 18 years . |
| 8 | Still , it was the basis of a reformed act in 1913 , giving a revived inspectorate compulsory powers , which has been the basis for more effective protection ever since . |
| 9 | Barry has been the lifeblood for so long . ’ |
| 10 | A quarter of a million pounds has been the motive for far worse crimes than the one you contemplated . |
| 11 | He 'd been a parasite for too long , a mere copier , echoing other men 's vision . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Stevens , I may not have been a housekeeper for long , but I would say that in the time I have been , my abilities have attracted some very generous remarks . ’ |
| 13 | Without your help I would have been a frog for ever . |
| 14 | Fracture porosity may also have been the reason for relatively good reservoirs in these regions of anthracite and meta-anthracite rank : these gas fields are situated in a W.N.W.-E.N.E. striking , weak structural zone at the northern margin of the Bramsche Massif which , according to Stadler and R. Teichmüller ( 1971 ) , is characterised by relatively late and deep reaching faults along with the ascendence of hydrothermal solutions and deposition of ore minerals were possible . |
| 15 | Having been a teacher for over 30 years it might seem strange that I should begin a book on primary education by reflecting on the significance of schooling . |
| 16 | There seems to have been a windmill for practically every village and sometimes two or more in the market towns . |
| 17 | Yet Elizabeth had been a widow for over ten years , and her children were very nearly off her hands ; it is quite possible that her brief sojourn in the workhouse was part of an attempt to give her life a new direction and meaning — perhaps she was there as a helper , a visitor , a counsellor to those in need , or even as a missionary spreading the gospel of Christianity in general or that of the Lady Huntingdon 's Connexion in particular . |
| 18 | She told me she had been a ghost for nearly twenty years . |
| 19 | He had been a soldier for almost all his life , but of late he had been a farmer in Normandy , drawn to the land of his enemies by a woman met by chance in the chaos of peace . |
| 20 | The Rector and Mrs Chamberlin , Lady Pemberley , Mrs Burrows and Harry , a tribe of Langleys , George Langley on his own several times , and a host of others Alexandra had never seen , but to whom Aunt Emily had been a fixture for more than 50 years . |
| 21 | Joe had been a bookie for over twenty years , gradually moving into loan sharking . |
| 22 | Claro had been a backwater for long enough . |
| 23 | I 've been a carer for quite a few years now , until recently , when my grandmother died . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've been a team for ever , and they 'll say things like , ‘ If we 're no going to learn a lot more about this character , why do we have so much about him in the beginning ? ’ |
| 25 | I have been working at the playgroup in Middleton St George for about seven years now , and I 've been the leader for about two . |
| 26 | I 've been an activist for over twenty years in this organization . |
| 27 | We 'll do Kids ' County these have been the clues for today 's one . |
| 28 | ‘ I know it 's wrong , Joe , when it 's been a tragedy for so many people , but it 's made life easier for us . |
| 29 | Now Sybil Longhurst who 's lived here all her life and Alice Tufnell , who 's been a villager for more than forty years , have recorded those changes in a book . |
| 30 | He 's been a frog for simply ages . ’ |