Example sentences of "it has [be] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | The selection of documents to be saved for posterity is as essential as it has been for the last 30 years ; it is not so much that computers can not store everything ( storage capacities are continuing to develop exponentially ) , as the consideration that to conserve everything makes the past unmanageable and impenetrable . |
| 32 | The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years . |
| 33 | This is the detached voice of reason judiciously intervening without allegiances into a debate in which it has been for the most part silent.3 The intervention reinforces the distinction between what Proust 's text does to itself and what de Man does to it , positioning him with the reader at a critical distance from , and therefore in shared judgement of , his own argument . |
| 34 | ‘ Do n't think this is merely habit , ’ he said , ‘ though habit it has been for twenty-five years . |
| 35 | It has been for a , a while now |