Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] [verb] for many " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been meaning for many weeks now to pass on 's French address , which filtered through to us in January — but of course you may already have had it from or heard from Janet yourself . |
| 2 | I have been involved for many years with the channel tunnel project as a whole and its associated terminal at King 's Cross . |
| 3 | A further example is when an organisation which has been trading for many decades finds itself increasingly out of touch with the market and the organisation 's internal culture and style is no longer appropriate to the markets it is trying to address . |
| 4 | This latest development in a saga which has been running for many months represents a change of heart by the Saints ' board . |
| 5 | But for this House to depart from a rule relating to land law which has been established for many centuries might upset long established titles . |
| 6 | The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research . |
| 7 | Relations with China , which had been strained for many years since the 1962 war between the two countries , gradually improved after Rajiv Gandhi 's visit to Beijing on Dec. 19-23 , 1988 , the first to China by an Indian Prime Minister for 34 years . |
| 8 | Nevertheless the king had restored to government and policy-making an element of continuity and decision which had been lacking for many years . |
| 9 | James chatting with the Earl of Farrow outside Farrow Hall , which had been used for many of the exterior shots in Pemberley . |
| 10 | The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit . |
| 11 | Even the shirts which had been left for many weeks in my laundry out-tray responded to the punishment it dished out . |
| 12 | The king provoked hostility by seeking to use his prerogative rights to raise money , and by requiring the payment of debts , many of which had been respited for many years . |
| 13 | We 've also included in there , on item twelve , a net bill item , but does need to be recognized as an addition to your total spending , and that is , you 've been involved for many years with the health authority in arranging for the discharge of people from long-stay hospitals , and their absorption into the community , and each of these are a provider of many services , and daycare services to those particular individuals . |
| 14 | Much will depend on how it seeks to solve the long-running debate about merging income tax and the national insurance system ; whether benefits , including pensions , are to be universal or selective ; and , if selective , how the state is to deal with obligations to people who have been contributing for many years to what they were told was national insurance . |
| 15 | Also , we have been calling for many years for legislation to get rid of the offshore tax havens of the sort that Lord Duncan-Sandys ploughed money into from Lonrho about 1970 . |
| 16 | We are fighting to trade freely and openly within the law , as we have been doing for many years . |
| 17 | He , too , married a girl of his own milieu ; they 've been separated for many years . |
| 18 | they 've been done for many years |
| 19 | To judge by the clutter of bottles , glasses , and over-filled ashtrays , and the brooding , weary faces , they had been debating for many hours . |
| 20 | She had brought glasses and dishes from home , she said ; they had been boxed for many years too long . |
| 21 | They had been provided for many years by the YWCA , and other urban based and normally middle class-run charitable societies dispensing relief and assistance . |
| 22 | Although they have been known for many years their evolutionary position is still hotly debated . |
| 23 | They have been used for many years as propellants in aerosols , in the production of some foam packaging and as coolants in refrigerators . |
| 24 | Thus , a Keeper of Italian Painting would have responsibility for the Italian drawings , thereby not only linking their administration and scholarly maintenance but also bringing drawing into the direct relationship with painting which Clifford says he has been advocating for many years . |
| 25 | This approach , a very recent development for credit in this country ( though of course it has been accepted for many years as the basis of car insurance ratings ) , started in America . |
| 26 | Let us begin by trying to understand the rationale for the system ; after all , it has been used for many years and must presumably have had some point to it . |
| 27 | It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis . |
| 28 | These are in addition to applications in the detergents field , in which it has been used for many years . |
| 29 | It has been known for many years that damage to the left hemisphere is more likely to affect language ability than damage to the right , suggesting that the left hemisphere is very important for language . |
| 30 | For example , it is still commonplace in cartoons to show cavemen and dinosaurs together , despite the fact that it has been known for many years that dinosaurs were extinct long before the evolution of ‘ cavemen ’ . |