Example sentences of "[been] in [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Ireland , credit unions have been in existence for a decade longer than in Britain , but there are now over 450 unions , with a membership exceeding three-quarters of a million . |
| 2 | By then , however , the main outlines have been in existence for a very long time , and it is these earlier arrangements about which we really need to know more and where future research should be concentrated . |
| 3 | A discrete block of land may have been in existence for a long time before it was first described in a written document . |
| 4 | The recent announcement of a link up between the EC and EFTA to create a European Economic Area [ EEA ] by 1993 is likely to have little immediate impact on the proportion of exports destined for these areas , partly because privileged access to each others markets has already been in existence for a number of years between the two trading blocks . |
| 5 | The first 4 of these have been in existence for a long time . |
| 6 | J. C. E. Roberts , welcomed all present and remarked that although the Society had only been in existence for a few months , much had already been done and the Society had a firm foundation on which to build . |
| 7 | Believe it or not , the society has now been in existence for a year and subscriptions became due on the 16th of March . |
| 8 | Despite the widespread provision of automatic teller machines ( ATMs ) which has now been in existence for a number of years , there is an apparent reluctance in the public to adopt this facility wholeheartedly . |
| 9 | The Commission has been in existence for the same length of time as the Fair Employment Agency , since 1976 . |
| 10 | ‘ From what he says , he has been in Amsterdam for the last six weeks , and rarely went far from the airport . |
| 11 | Ash had been in London for a programming interview with some big insurance company and had offered me a lift back home , or to Gallanach anyway , as I 'd exiled myself from Lochgair . |
| 12 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 13 | We 've been in love for a long time — well , I have anyway . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Khan , mankind has been in space for a very long time . ’ |
| 15 | This was a relief to Watt who had been in Cornwall for a while supervising the engine business there . |
| 16 | When she was young , Aunt Bessie had been in service for a well-off family with a certain Mrs Leigh , who lived in Colne in Lancashire . |
| 17 | The fittings here also looked as if they had been in service for a long time — probably salvaged from a demolition site . |
| 18 | A caller from the IRO told a newspaper that the car-bomb had been in revenge for the killing by the Israeli airforce of Sheikh Abbas Musawi , of the Lebanese Hezbollah [ see p. 38750 ] . |
| 19 | The attack was believed to have been in revenge for the killing by government militia of several Moslem farmers worshipping in a mosque in the neighbouring town of Pikit . |
| 20 | She has n't been in Italy for a long time . |
| 21 | IBOA and its members have grave concerns about this development and negotiations have been in progress for the past number of months . |
| 22 | The current account had been in deficit for the last 17 years and by late 1990 constituted around 7 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) . |
| 23 | His self-reproaches had been in pickle for a year , and the notion that they might be out-of-date escaped him . |
| 24 | ‘ You can win money but you can not eat , ’ said a member of the Ukrainian-Russian squad who have been in England for the past fortnight . |
| 25 | If I 'd come when you first asked me , I might have been in Saracen for an entire month : I 'd probably have no job to come back to . ’ |
| 26 | Comfort had been in Paris for a fortnight , officially to sort out details of an exhibition of her paintings , and she had taken the opportunity to replenish her depleted wardrobe and see as many of her old friends as she could find . |
| 27 | 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) ) . |
| 28 | The future of the Swiss nuclear industry had been in doubt for a number of years , particularly since the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union [ see pp.34460-62 ] , and in 1988 the government had halted plans to build a nuclear power station at Kaiseraugst near Basel [ see p. 36499 ] . |
| 29 | He could n't think whether they had been in bed for an hour , or four hours . |
| 30 | Since the First Directive has only been in operation for a matter of weeks , much has still to be learned about its full impact . |