Example sentences of "[been] [prep] many " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | The census has been for many years now an important instrument , among a range of such instruments , in the administration of the welfare state . |
| 33 | She keeps busy with local activities and has been for many years editor of her church magazine . |
| 34 | Erm , please , appalling and have been for many years and er the whole of the road needs to be done . |
| 35 | ‘ House repossessions are at no higher rate than they have been for many years , ’ he says . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | And that 's moved them no less than three places up the second division table , they 're higher than I think they 've been for many a long day . |
| 39 | Well , now I 've been past many a field of hay but it does n't smell like it used to in my young days . |
| 40 | At that time he would have been like many thousand of other youngsters , the sweepings of the hungry ‘ forties . |
| 41 | Over the past three years , raids have been carried out as police target crack dealers who 've been behind many shootings and violent assaults . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | The terror , rather than tepidity , of the priesthood , it had undoubtedly been in many an Italian city in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries ; and even more , perhaps , in the bloody riots in Cologne in 1074 which nearly subdued the pride of the prince archbishop of the city — or the riots in Laon in 1112 which erupted in the murder of the unpopular Bishop Waldric , and gravely shocked both the chivalrous King Louis of France , and his neighbour the English king , Henry I , whose chancellor Waldric had been . |
| 44 | He had been in many tight spots during his life , and guarding a warehouse did not trouble him unduly . |
| 45 | I 've never been in any factory in my life , working nights , I have been in many , but I 've never found my fellow men very sociable on the night shift . |
| 46 | ‘ 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 . |
| 47 | More pointedly , such analyses are concerned with measuring the effects of wage movements ; the causes have to be sought in the actual , real-world process of industrial relations — an environment as uncongenial to economists as it has been to many industrial managers . |
| 48 | For a man of my age I have n't been to many funerals , the result of belonging to a much reduced family and having a limited acquaintance . |
| 49 | I have been to many throughout the country . |
| 50 | I have been to many of those areas and seen the problems . |
| 51 | Local Management of Schools has been to many of our schools . |
| 52 | The city this morning is relatively calm , far quieter than it has been on many days in recent months . |
| 53 | I have also been on many other outings with my family where we enjoyed nature together . |
| 54 | 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 . |