Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] year [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These major companies are very stable , with an organisational structure which has been developed over many years and , like the Japanese Zaibatsu , they have a large-core business which is able to withstand changes in the market place . |
| 2 | This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change . |
| 3 | On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it . |
| 4 | The department ‘ s syllabus has not been revised for five years and perhaps is ready for a revision . |
| 5 | Dovaston is unable to list them publicly because many of the crimes have been committed in recent years and a number are still sub judice . |
| 6 | Its characteristics include adjustable string tension , a system which has been underrated in previous years but which has incalculable benefits to the regular club enthusiast . |
| 7 | Guests saw how the plant has been upgraded over recent years and capacity increased from 45,000 to 70,000 tonnes . |
| 8 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They have been used for many years as propellants in aerosols , in the production of some foam packaging and as coolants in refrigerators . |
| 11 | It challenges some of the teaching methods that have been used in recent years and it suggests that schools should concentrate on commonsense , practical teaching . |
| 12 | Social perceptions of what is or is not obscene or indecent may change but the legislation may remain to trap the unwary in a much more liberal climate ; and just because the legislation has not been used in many years that does not mean it will not be applied again . |
| 13 | Also in the field of biogeography world maps of plant formations had been utilized for many years and had indeed been adopted as the basis for some climatic classification by attempting to fit the classification to the plant distribution . |
| 14 | For example , if you have been employed for four years and earn a basic salary of £40,000 , one hardly need emphasise the difference between the value of your rights if you are eligible just for the statutory minimum of four weeks ' notice and the scale of your claim if you are on , say , a three-year rolling contract . |
| 15 | At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week . |
| 16 | You are entitled to a written statement of the reasons for your dismissal if you have been employed for two years or more . |
| 17 | The Old Mill , at the west end of the village , was still operative until the early years of the Second World War , and the New Mill at the east end , which lost its sails in a gale so severe that parts of them were found in the next village , has been restored in recent years and is now a very attractive dwelling . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | It has been known for many years that rich clusters contain a lot of gas and dark matter , but Ponman and Bertram 's result shows that these features apply more generally . |
| 20 | It has been known for many years that neurons , like other cells , can be maintained alive and well under such conditions for periods of many days or even weeks , provided they are kept warm , aerated and well fed with glucose and other essential molecules . |
| 21 | It has been known for many years that recycling used materials helps make great savings , but it was not until recently that it was realised how much good that it could do for the environment . |
| 22 | In 1947 when Frank had his insight the existence of muons had already been known for ten years and the existence of muonic atoms had also been predicted . |
| 23 | Certain immigrant communities have been documented for many years as having higher mental hospital admission rates . |
| 24 | This is the practice that has been followed for many years and by and large it has worked . |
| 25 | No such luck I 'm afraid for a car swindler who 's been gaoled for two years after he was caught boarding the same holiday flight as his victim . |
| 26 | Boarding out ( or fostering ) has been practised for many years and the Curtis Committee on the care of children strongly urged that this should be the first choice in finding substitute homes . |
| 27 | ITV has been thrown into disarray because the current franchises have been extended for three years while the Government introduces a new free market framework . |
| 28 | This is partly due to the privatization programme which has been implemented in recent years and has reduced the number of public corporations . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Relations between this group and the government had been strained for some years because of the sect 's links with Libya and its occupation of a disputed eight-acre site west of the capital , where it had built a commune . |