Example sentences of "[been] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Harrowby was an eminent politician , who had been for many years MP for Liverpool ; his scientific interests were in geography and statistics . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | These limitation terms were incorporated in all contracts between seedsmen and farmers and had been for many years . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | The census has been for many years now an important instrument , among a range of such instruments , in the administration of the welfare state . |
| 41 | She keeps busy with local activities and has been for many years editor of her church magazine . |
| 42 | Erm , please , appalling and have been for many years and er the whole of the road needs to be done . |
| 43 | ‘ House repossessions are at no higher rate than they have been for many years , ’ he says . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 47 | The PLO felt able to play what had been for fifteen years its ‘ last card ’ — recognition of Israel — because it had gained a stronger one through the Uprising . |
| 48 | You 're alright , you , you 've been for fifteen years |
| 49 | I mean the new areas of course for us er and I still count the medical practices as a new area although it 's been for four years |
| 50 | The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years . |
| 51 | ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years , ’ Mrs Smith said . |
| 52 | ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years . |
| 53 | The drug AZT , an inhibitor of DNA synthesis , has been for several years the only treatment for those with symptoms of overt AIDS . |
| 54 | Scums defence is as dodgy now as its been for 3–4 years . |
| 55 | Although annual rail investment , at more than £1bn , is currently higher than it has been for three decades , that results from decisions taken two to three years ago . |
| 56 | You 're lucky , I have n't been for three days . |
| 57 | It was her idea to come here each summer , but she has n't been for three years now . |
| 58 | It has n't been for three years . " |
| 59 | I have n't been for three years . |
| 60 | ‘ Miss Kenton ’ is properly speaking ‘ Mrs Benn and has been for twenty years . |