Example sentences of "[verb] been on [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Felix has been on the scheme for nine months , Gerald for two years . |
| 2 | Although not the longest reigning ( Belgium 's King Baudouin has been on the throne for 41 years ) , she is undoubtedly the most widely recognised monarch in the world ( there are currently over a billion bank notes and 16 billion coins in circulation bearing her portrait ) . |
| 3 | She started ‘ working ’ at the age of 14 and has been on the streets for five years . |
| 4 | Howard , from Liverpool , has an England record of 20 Tests , officiated in both World Cups and has been on the panel for nine years . |
| 5 | Homelessness has been on the increase for a long time and Government initiatives , based as they are on encouraging the private sector to fill the gap left by local authorities , have been essentially piecemeal and fragmentary . |
| 6 | ‘ Reparations has been on the agenda for almost every generation of black Americans , ’ said Mr Walter Fauntroy , the District of Columbia 's representative in Congress . |
| 7 | Does the Minister recognise that the question of loan sharks has been on the agenda for the past 12 years , but that nothing positive has occurred other than the report to which he referred ? |
| 8 | It 's all speculation at present , however Britain is only one of two countries in the European Community that does n't levy VAT on newspapers and the subject has been on the agenda for some time . |
| 9 | He much prefers to drive something that has been on the market for two or three years , reasoning that most of the initial problems should have been ironed out . |
| 10 | Lotus Notes has been on the market for some time , and is already being used by many of the world 's largest companies . |
| 11 | Agents will no longer inform buyers of new instructions when the property has been on the market for upwards of two years . |
| 12 | The shop has been on the market for over a year , and I have been unable to find a buyer . |
| 13 | SongWright 5.1 is the latest version of a package that has been on the market for several years . |
| 14 | This five bedroomed victorian house … complete with trout stream anmd stable … has been on the market for three and a half years … the price has been reduced by thirty thousand pounds . |
| 15 | The site is commercial woodland which has been on the market for two years . |
| 16 | The Chinese made Groomers half inch hair brush has been on the market for eight years . |
| 17 | VAILA , a small Shetland island which has been on the market for more than 12 years , has been sold to a couple in London . |
| 18 | His house has been on the market for six months . |
| 19 | Though its timing caught out the markets , the krona/ecu link has been on the cards for some months . |
| 20 | The merger has been on the cards for some time and of course makes perfect sense . |
| 21 | The Marquess of Blandford is back in prison tonight , charged with assualting two police officers who were trying to arrest him after he 'd been on the run for four days . |
| 22 | He 'd been on the roads for days and they still retained their winter mire , despite the advent of finer spring weather . |
| 23 | She 'd been on the floor for nearly every dance , and was having a whale of a time . |
| 24 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 25 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 26 | Smith should have been on the bench for London 's game against the Midlands last Saturday but had to drop out with the same complaint . |
| 27 | Smith should have been on the bench for London 's game against the Midlands last Saturday but had to drop out with the same complaint . |
| 28 | ‘ A night out with John Minton , ’ Lehmann recorded in his diary in October 1951 , ‘ for which he arrived with a bunch of carnations in the wildest , gayest form , having been on a jag for three nights — and continued it that night in spite of my attempts at restraint ( which were spoiled by laughing all the time ) , flinging his arms about , shouting shrilly with highly risqué asseverations at the White Tower ( at which Tennessee [ Williams ] appeared for a hallucinatory moment ) , becoming embarrassingly affectionate and enthusiastic about me , and pouring money out for champagne in the Caribbean and another unidentified night club . ’ |
| 29 | Having been on the run for nearly four years , Rudi had grown from an early teenager into a young adult . |
| 30 | The two main issues thought to have been on the agenda for Li 's visit were South Korea 's intention to apply for separate membership of the UN ( North Korea favoured the two Korean states sharing a single UN seat ) , and the growing pressure for the North Korean government to allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities , an issue at the heart of the current normalization talks between North Korea and Japan [ see below ] . |