Example sentences of "[verb] been in [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it has been in reactors for so long , this sort of plutonium is not best-suited to nuclear weapons . |
| 2 | Only the skylit fifth floor opens permanently on 19 February with an expanded sampling of the museum 's contemporary collection , much of which has been in storage for years , and with a long-term installation of a promised gift of twenty-seven works by American abstract artist Leon Polk Smith ( b. 1906 ) . |
| 3 | The Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , has been in Denmark for EC crisis talks following their recent referendum rejecting the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 4 | Kate Spencer-Nairn has been in wheelchair for eight years since her treatment at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford.In a High Court damages case against Oxfordshire Health Authority , she 's claimed that her spine was n't properly shielded during radiation treatment for Hodgkin 's Disease . |
| 5 | Term Characteristic Six months Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 does not apply to a tenancy for a term of years certain not exceeding six months unless : ( 1 ) it contains provision for renewing the term or extending it beyond six months from its beginning ; or ( 2 ) the tenant has been in occupation for a period which , together with any period during which any predecessor in his business was in occupation , exceeds twelve months ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s43(3) ) . |
| 6 | The accruals method has been in development for over three years , and was triggered by the takeover of Pearl by AMP on a price/ earnings ratio of 9.6 times earnings calculated under an embedded value method . |
| 7 | The elder has been in Normandy for four years now , Stephen can hardly count him as the staunch supporter he used to be . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I thought that , since your society has been in existence for ten years , I might do an article on your work . ’ |
| 9 | A key link with the mainland , the Larne-Stranraer route has been in existence for almost 130 years and has become an integral part of Ulster 's maritime heritage . |
| 10 | The idea , however , has been in existence for as long as man has worshipped . |
| 11 | Braintree Concerts Music Club has been in existence for 22 years , but is looking for new ways to promote itself following the decision by the district council to withdraw its grant . |
| 12 | The Young England Rugby Club has been in existence for two years but is now being relaunched as a major part of the RFU youth initiative with its own clear aims and ambitions . |
| 13 | Lyn de Alwis , Director of the Sri Lanka National Parks , had a secret weapon , although it is debatable whether you can call a facility that has been in existence for several thousand years ‘ secret ’ . |
| 14 | Although it has been in existence for some considerable time , train operation for passengers has been provided by battery-electric power . |
| 15 | That there is a conventional element in the distinction is shown by the fact that procedures expressed as programs can also be expressed by the hardware structure of machines : the principal programming language of AI is LISP , which has been in existence for about twenty years , but only recently has a ‘ hard-wired ’ LISP-machine been built , one in which the LISP programs are more straight forwardly isomorphic with the operations of the hardware . |
| 16 | The Commission has been in existence for the same length of time as the Fair Employment Agency , since 1976 . |
| 17 | Easthall Residents ' Association ( ERA ) has been in existence for 20 years and has been involved in numerous issues affecting the community . |
| 18 | But it has been in existence for almost as long as there has been detective fiction . |
| 19 | The Village Trust is a respected body which has been in existence for many years . |
| 20 | The Computer Co-ordination Section has been in existence for over five years and too much time is wasted just saying the name . |
| 21 | I believe that the figures that the hon. Lady gave earlier were for regional development grant rather than for regional selective assistance , which has been in existence for only about three years , as she will recall . |
| 22 | The company has been in existence for eight years now and is completely independent . |
| 23 | Coupled to that the er , sort of the statutory protection which has been in existence for er , workers for many years in some cases is , is being whittled away . |
| 24 | MURTON Brass Band has been in existence for more than 100 years and to say thank you to the people of the village who have kept the band going , they are to give a concert at the Victoria Club . |
| 25 | Shaun has been in Grendon for 3 months and already he 's facing himself . |
| 26 | However , where a discriminatory practice has been in operation for some time it may be easier for the Commission for Racial Equality to produce evidence in support of an allegation . |
| 27 | The Phenix reactor ( 233 MWe ) has been in operation for eight years and has produced more than10000000 kWh . |
| 28 | The new prefilter has been in operation for 4 weeks now with no alteration of flow . |
| 29 | The CMS , which is intermediate between the DMS and courses for supervisors provided under the aegis of the National Examinations Board in Supervisory Studies ( NEBSS ) , has been in operation for three years and has tended to concentrate on providing training for personnel in the employ of major public sector institutions like the National Health Service and local government . |
| 30 | ‘ Although the calcinating plant has been in operation for some years now , it is the most modern of its type in the industry , ’ commented senior mill manager Graham Jones , ‘ and while it may not be attractive to the eye , it does produce beautiful materials . ’ |