Example sentences of "been for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | ‘ The Khanate is settled , and has been for some time , ’ his father said dismissively . |
| 62 | " No , and there have n't been for some time . " |
| 63 | ‘ I think you do follow us , ’ Cranston replied , ‘ and have been for some time . |
| 64 | For one thing , Kelly 's very happily involved in a relationship and has been for some time , so I 'm quite convinced her eyes wo n't stray towards any ski-bums , no matter how handsome . ’ |
| 65 | They have not been for some time except to people who still remember The Beatles and The Animals . |
| 66 | He said it was broken , had been for some time , and that if I wanted a toilet I should go to the cafe upstairs . |
| 67 | Well , we have been for some time . |
| 68 | Bob Gunnell , of course , is an was and has been for some time a very supportive member of South East Arts and active in many of its committees . |
| 69 | She then moved to Bristol City Council where she has been for some months . |
| 70 | My children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 71 | My children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 72 | Yes my children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 73 | Yes my children do go to school oh I was going to say , have been for some months now . |
| 74 | The initial impetus came from the Managing Director of one of the largest of the Harris Tweed manufacturers — the son of a crofter and himself a fisherman in his early days The Association was , however , given its distinctive shape and its constitution by the first chairman , Rev. Ian Carmichael , a Gaelic-speaker from Lismore who was a minister in Stornoway at the time , and who had had considerable experience of welfare work in industry , and had been for some years vice convener of one of the largest local authorities in Scotland . |
| 75 | While there clearly was an ‘ objective ’ discontinuity of subject perspective between selective school mathematics and the practice of some segments , increasingly dominant within some countries , of university mathematics , and had been for some years , it again required interested actors , utilizing the climate of ‘ crisis ’ resulting from the campaign on teacher supply as a major resource , to enter various arenas in order to persuade others of the ‘ need ’ for change . |
| 76 | " Yes , " said Clara , beginning to understand the nature of her mother 's satisfaction ; the lack of telephone of Mrs Hanney had been for some years a subject for discourse in a vein of amazed contempt . |
| 77 | There has been for some years a basic agreement that the parliamentary salary should be sufficient to prevent MPs feeling the need to seek supplementary income . |
| 78 | There is indeed , and has been for some years , discussion on the political level as to whether , and to what extent , public transport , particularly in capital cities , should be regarded , and financed , as a social service , out of taxation whether national or local . |
| 79 | Nine tenths of the Leicester ring road is finished and has been for some years . |
| 80 | It has to be said that there has been for some years within the Labour Party something of a class divide — a working-class element resentful of a middle-class takeover by lawyers and the like . |
| 81 | In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . |
| 82 | But see what my reward 's been for those years spent glorifying God at my craft . ’ |
| 83 | Had it not been for another round of cost cutting , the group would have crept back into the black last year . |
| 84 | Du n no , oh he 's , he 's what , he 's been for another job interview and the bloke |