Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [verb] for [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 2 | they 've been done for many years |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He , too , married a girl of his own milieu ; they 've been separated for many years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | No I did n't Stefan , we 've been blamed for some things in our time , have n't we but |
| 7 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been running for several years but only up to half marathon distance , ’ he says . |
| 9 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |
| 10 | But the conditions in Greek state psychiatric hospitals have been exposed for many years . |
| 11 | • In rodents , rhythms continue to develop in animals that have been reared for several generations in constant conditions . |
| 12 | Rift systems have been studied for many decades but have received renewed attention since the early 1970s because of their association with crustal upwarps and their role in continental rupture . |
| 13 | • In rare instances , new-born babies have been studied for several months in a constant environment in a hospital ward . |
| 14 | Values for van der Waals constants have been determined for many gases ( see table 3.3 ) . |
| 15 | Some of this evidence comes from a corpus of anaphoric expressions from published material that we have been collecting for several years ( for a preliminary report see Garnham & Oakhill 1989 ) . |
| 16 | However , at all times questions have been asked for all sorts of reasons , ranging from the sheer desire for information to an attempt to trip up the Prime Minister on a major policy issue . |
| 17 | I have been involved for many years with the channel tunnel project as a whole and its associated terminal at King 's Cross . |
| 18 | Scotvec Modules have been developed for those pupils who have a pass at General level and not wish to do Higher . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There is some evidence that cervical cancer is more common in women who smoke cigarettes , especially heavy smokers or women who have been smoking for several years . |
| 21 | Certain immigrant communities have been documented for many years as having higher mental hospital admission rates . |
| 22 | Interventions by schools to reduce smoking have been undertaken for many decades , although little attention has been given to assessing their effectiveness . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Standard specifications have been agreed for some products like hamburgers and meat pies , for example , and the NAAFI have the task of sourcing supplies for these and for all other items such as fruit and vegetables . |
| 25 | Is the Minister aware that the proposals for the expansion and development of the Dalzell works have been pursued for many years more consistently and vigorously by the Labour party than by any other party ? |
| 26 | Detailed records of post-glacial uplift have been established for such areas as the Fenno-Scandian Shield and the Canadian Shield from both raised and warped shorelines and gravity data . |
| 27 | Taramasalata p112 Tartare Sauce p48 Tea p36/ The most popular drink in the world , made from the dried leaves of the plant Camellia sinensis Tea , varieties of pp36–7 Teewurst pp13–14/ A smooth German sausage for spreading Teriyaki p54/ A Japanese marinade based on soya sauce The Great British Eight pp86–8/ The traditional selection of British cheeses that have been produced for many years The Soil Association p85/ The standards body controlling the marketing of officially recognised organically produced foods Tisanes p37/ Herbal drinks made from the leaves or fruits of plants such as mint , hibiscus etc . |
| 28 | They have been used for many years as propellants in aerosols , in the production of some foam packaging and as coolants in refrigerators . |
| 29 | IMPACT Moling : These machines have been used for some years to lay services and pipes up to 125mm in diameter . |
| 30 | Although they have been known for many years their evolutionary position is still hotly debated . |