Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] been [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been desperate year for Thomas . |
| 2 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 3 | It has been sheer delight for them . |
| 4 | ‘ In some instances it has been sheer luck for members of the public with either guns jamming or security force patrols intercepting the terrorists . ’ |
| 5 | Traditionally it has been common practice for schools to seek to maintain discipline and control misbehaviour via the exertion of authority and the employment of sanctions as punishments . |
| 6 | It has been common practice for petroleum geologists to regard the pre-Permian rocks of England south of the so-called Variscan Front as economic basement . |
| 7 | Radio personality Michael Parkinson said : ‘ It 's been general knowledge for ages . |
| 8 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 9 | ‘ The Doctor says it 's been three years for you , ’ the Professor said . |
| 10 | It 's been hard work for us but we 're not giving in in here and that 's it . |
| 11 | He 's been breeding Herefords for 45 years and it breaks his heart to see us importing rubbish from overseas . |