Example sentences of "have been [prep] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The city this morning is relatively calm , far quieter than it has been on many days in recent months . |
| 2 | The place anciently belonged to the Fauconbergs , but has been for many generations the seat of the Bethells . |
| 3 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 4 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 5 | Suppose State C has been for many years the major supplier of wheat to State A. If States A and B make an agreement that A will buy wheat from B instead of from C , this will affect C which will have to decide upon its response . |
| 6 | The Heart of Wales Line is now under greater threat than it has been for many years , because of financial pressures from British Rail in general and Regional Railways in particular . |
| 7 | However , the truth of the matter is that the Scottish economy is in a better state now than it has been for many years and is continuing to thrive . |
| 8 | I know that that is not entirely agreeable to some of my hon. Friends and to some Opposition Members , but that is the fact of life — and has been for many years . |
| 9 | The census has been for many years now an important instrument , among a range of such instruments , in the administration of the welfare state . |
| 10 | She keeps busy with local activities and has been for many years editor of her church magazine . |
| 11 | Norfolk has been for many years one of our Medau strongholds and it is for this reason that the Society decided to select this prestigious location . |
| 12 | erm Listeners will probably know that there has been for many years what 's called the Schools Council , which has looked at erm curriculum matters and examination matters , and a year or so ago it was decided to discontinue the Schools Council , and to replace it by two successor committees , one the School Curriculum Development Committee , which you 've already mentioned and which I chair , and a parallel committee concerned with examinations , the School Examination , sorry the Secondary Examination Council , which is chaired by a mathematician , Sir Wilfred Cockroft . |
| 13 | In stressing this aspect , Marx and Engles were basing themselves in great part on the excellent description that Morgan had supplied for the matrilineal descent groups of the Iroquois , and , in his stress on the community aspect of descent groups , Morgan has been in many ways supported by later work . |
| 14 | ‘ But when you look at the legislation , which has been in many ways draconian for the situation which exists today , you have great difficulty in saying who is and who is not under the age of 16 . |
| 15 | These shrubs were cut of fat ground level so that stools developed from which new shoots emerged — the stools can therefore be of very great age , having been through many cycles of cutting . |
| 16 | The Child Poverty Action Group might also be seen as an expert and appropriate group to raise social security matters , having been for many years active in campaigning on such matters . |
| 17 | The powerful states of the time normally were empires , and had been for many centuries , though a few shadowy forerunners of the nation state could be seen by 1500 . |
| 18 | An older age group of superior tradesmen here and there — the public bar fraternity shunned the place , for this had been for many years the snob pub of Belgravia . |
| 19 | There had been for many years various organizations to co-ordinate Nonconformist work in both political and religious fields and the oldest bodies dated back to the previous century . |
| 20 | He had been for many years an Examiner with the Joint Matriculation Board , and latterly Chief Examiner for the Cambridge Board . |
| 21 | Harrowby was an eminent politician , who had been for many years MP for Liverpool ; his scientific interests were in geography and statistics . |
| 22 | These limitation terms were incorporated in all contracts between seedsmen and farmers and had been for many years . |
| 23 | Aware that Madcap Agnew 's name was scarcely mentioned in the Hall , that the Lodge had been for many years a forbidden place , and that her father 's heart still quailed to reflect on the terrors he had suffered as a child , Louisa had not dared to let her reflections on this unhappy history reach far enough . |
| 24 | Mr Strachan 's acquaintance with the Library did not begin with his appointment as Chairman , since he had been for many years , as a historian and biographer , a reader in the Library 's Reading Rooms . |
| 25 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 26 | Over the past three years , raids have been carried out as police target crack dealers who 've been behind many shootings and violent assaults . |
| 27 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
| 28 | The Faroe Islands are self-governing , but have been for many years a colony of Denmark , and still rely on the government of the old mother country for international representation . |
| 29 | Many are extremely tense , not only since the infarct , but have been for many years , and it is possible that the inward tension that they suffer has been a contributory factor to their disease . |
| 30 | These will be concerns for his successor as David will take his leave of the Education Department at the end of July and his immediate plans are more leisurely now than they have been for many years . |