Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top rated American TV programme has been beguiling children for the last 13 years . |
| 2 | Rob Wilson 's tackle shop in Brora has been welcoming anglers for more than fifty years . |
| 3 | Here , the manageress Giovanna has been welcoming guests for 30 years and prides herself on offering a simple , comfortable hotel and a good choice of menu . |
| 4 | Vadinamia has its own ultra-tight security that has been frustrating spies for a long time . |
| 5 | In recent years , by far the most important item has been individual demands for back payment of overtime earnings following court decisions on the method of calculating the hourly overtime rate . |
| 6 | An additional complication to Rugby 's future has been legal writs for damages by Mal Malik , a former Coventry and Rugby flank-forward . |
| 7 | Although some of the Wealden towns may have been regional centres for craft specialisation , such as Battle with its leather working and shoemaking , most of them provided a wide range of services which allowed a high degree of virtual self-sufficiency to their surrounding areas . |
| 8 | As I use Taskmax and Windows 3 , both of which use SWAP designations , these would have been primary candidates for missing disk space , except in both cases the swap areas are allocated to E : \WIN — a subdirectory on a 3Mb RAM drive . |
| 9 | The proper sentence , taking account of all relevant factors , would have been five years for the robbery . |
| 10 | The idea is to give a taste of life outside for mental patients who may have been inside institutions for up to twenty years . |
| 11 | Besides , filling hot water bottles was not man 's work — fetching coal , sawing wood , even opening a bottle of wine would have been suitable occupations for Rupert to be discovered in , but not this . |
| 12 | Though had Simon produced such a ringing anti-apartheid statement as this there would surely have been little grounds for complaint about his Graceland trip . |
| 13 | As an agency working in the field of community development , the past two years should have been optimistic ones for Falls Community Council , as new money pumped through BAT has been made available to us and the groups we work for and with . |
| 14 | However the former economic attache for the US Embassy in Ireland , Kenneth McGuire , said that while market factors may have been important considerations for Raybestos , the relocation factor probably can not be entirely dismissed in the Raybestos case . |
| 15 | This alone would have been sufficient grounds for divorce as far as my Pop was concerned . |
| 16 | There may have been secret conclaves for this purpose . |
| 17 | Most of the clergy and the peasants were not subjected to the hazards of battle , and the higher clergy seem to have been good risks for the actuary . |
| 18 | Then the farmer admitted that there had been many applicants for the job already , but each had been driven out of the stall by the horse . |
| 19 | In doing so I like to think that we had been good ambassadors for the Department ; I know we all enjoyed every minute of the three hectic months . |
| 20 | She just knew that a basement room was for sitting in , a children 's ward for visiting , and railway stations had been prime targets for being bombed . |
| 21 | The Ypres salient , where since 1914 the Allies had been prime targets for the German guns , had been flattened , leaving only a small salient around Passchendaele itself . |
| 22 | Free produce , like antislavery generally , received some publicity from the visit of Mrs Stowe and her husband in 1853 but ebbed in popularity when the Richardsons of Newcastle who had been prime propagandists for the movement had to withdraw in 1854 . |
| 23 | That claim was denied but TV Licensing conceded that there had been insufficient grounds for obtaining the warrant . |
| 24 | Personal opinions had been modern luxuries for the leaders . |
| 25 | By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two . |
| 26 | Granada has a £63million stake in BSB and said there had been several approaches for Alan Bond 's major stake in the venture . |
| 27 | During the interwar years there had been several proposals for something that would go beyond this to involve governments , and in 1938 the idea of a Nordic Council had been proposed by Denmark . |
| 28 | If there had been any grounds for suspicion , it 'd be a different case . ’ |
| 29 | But of course : it had been three years for Ace . |
| 30 | It had been three years for Ace . |