Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] [prep] [det] years " in BNC.
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1 | Indeed , the role of fibrinogen in platelet aggregation has been recognised for many years ( Born & Cross , 1964 ; Brinkhaus et al , 1965 ) . |
2 | Salicylate nephrotoxicity has been recognised for many years . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | It may be related to the size , complexity and nature of the company 's operation and therefore to the organisational structure which has been developed over many years . |
5 | ‘ Hemp has been grown for many years on the Continent and this decision will allow UK farmers to gain a share of the market currently occupied by our EC partners . ’ |
6 | ‘ To disturb them after all the work that has been done over many years would be a disaster . ’ |
7 | Considerable research effort has been invested over many years into both speech recognition and speech understanding , but very few robust implementations have been developed . |
8 | Its bid to become a polytechnic has been supported for many years by Conservative Members from Derbyshire . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | A need for adequate protection in the field of residential care , and to a lesser extent in relation to the provision of domiciliary services , has been advocated for some years . |
11 | Road pricing , which involves charging drivers directly for their use of the road network , has been advocated for several years as a means of reducing congestion and environmental impact . |
12 | Canteiro is a wine which has been matured over many years without going into an estufa , and it is of a good age . |
13 | This is the practice that has been followed for many years and by and large it has worked . |
14 | That Soviet ships dumped nuclear waste in the area has been suspected for many years . |
15 | Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | The structure and organization of public services do not , at present , foster service developments which match the King 's Fund recommendations , and the need for an overhaul in the way services are organized has been recognized for some years . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
20 | This new magazine is modelled on the successful ‘ English Civil War Notes & Queries ’ which has been running for several years . |
21 | The gall bladder epithelium has been considered for many years to be an excellent model for the study of the physiological properties of epithelial cells and in particular ion transport . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | The possibility of a connection between the disappearance of coronae and the onset of massive winds has been discussed for many years . |
24 | John Ambrose has been turning for many years , delighting competition judges and spectators with his originality and precision . |
25 | The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry . |
26 | The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research . |
27 | G. affinis is a small ( 4.6 cm long ) , surface-feeding minnow which originated in the United States and has been used for many years in many parts of the world to control mosquito larvae . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis . |
30 | These are in addition to applications in the detergents field , in which it has been used for many years . |