Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [prep] existence [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought that , since your society has been in existence for ten years , I might do an article on your work . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The idea , however , has been in existence for as long as man has worshipped . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Although it has been in existence for some considerable time , train operation for passengers has been provided by battery-electric power . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Commission has been in existence for the same length of time as the Fair Employment Agency , since 1976 . |
| 10 | Easthall Residents ' Association ( ERA ) has been in existence for 20 years and has been involved in numerous issues affecting the community . |
| 11 | But it has been in existence for almost as long as there has been detective fiction . |
| 12 | The Village Trust is a respected body which has been in existence for many years . |
| 13 | The Computer Co-ordination Section has been in existence for over five years and too much time is wasted just saying the name . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The company has been in existence for eight years now and is completely independent . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Of particular interest here is the work of the Financial Information Project which has been in existence since 1979 . |
| 19 | Indy Car racing has been in existence since 1909 . |
| 20 | The Council 's power to issue policy recommendations under stage two has been in existence since the convergence decision in 1974 . |
| 21 | This cemetery has been in existence since 1965 and is lovingly tended by regular visitors who often bring fresh flowers to mark the last resting place of a faithful friend . |
| 22 | Inevitably , in such a well-established industry — modern-style factoring has been in existence in the UK since the 1960s product improvement has come at the margins . |
| 23 | This has been in existence in an annual version since early 1978 , and was first used for UK forecasting in March 1980 , and has recently had an aggregate ‘ supply-side ’ added ( this determining the equilibrium values of output , unemployment and relative prices ) . |
| 24 | The planning system has been in existence in roughly its present form since 1947 but no one has before attempted to measure how much the system costs . |