Example sentences of "it have [adv] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well of course it 's not on , it has n't been on for weeks . |
| 2 | No it has n't been there for a little while British National Corpus I 've been carrying it around with me |
| 3 | It has certainly been around for a hundred years , and it is probably the most vital of aspect of life as we know it today . |
| 4 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 5 | It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time . |
| 6 | It had probably been there for some time ! |
| 7 | No , Lindsey told herself , as she showered and slipped into a warm towelling robe , it had actually been over for a long time . |
| 8 | Oh do n't it 's only been on for about er , the last half an hour it 's not it 's a cross a crucifix is got bigger on it . |
| 9 | How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months . |