Example sentences of "been [adj] in [noun sg] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Culshaw , who knew Karajan better than any of these armchair pundits , noted that since Karajan had never been interested in interpretation for interpretation 's sake — which perhaps helps explain why his readings often outlast those of more ‘ personalized ’ rivals — he naturally diverted his attention to new projects , musical , technological , scientific , logistical , until circumstances or new thinking drew him back to the central repertoire that he had recorded earlier , with other orchestras , other technology . |
| 2 | You know you 've not been interested in sex for years . ’ |
| 3 | Recently Joe and his wife Janet have been involved in support for couples in frontier work . |
| 4 | Many Hollywood denizens are businessmen who have been involved in politics for years . |
| 5 | Unlike almost the whole of the rest of Roman law , trusts had by the end of the classical period been actionable in cognitio for centuries . |
| 6 | I came to it through climbing , having been active in mountaineering for years . |