Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 2 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 3 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |
| 4 | Mammal-like animals have been around for some 200 million years but did n't become particularly numerous until about 70 million years ago , around the time the dinosaurs became extinct . |
| 5 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 6 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 7 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 8 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
| 9 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 10 | Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time . |
| 11 | Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived . |
| 12 | The lights have been off for several months , bringing a protest from the RAFA . |
| 13 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 14 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 15 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 16 | You think of the people , I mean , these people have been there for all those years |
| 17 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 18 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 19 | Those papers have been there for more than a century . |
| 20 | Brooke Alexander , of course , and Josh Baer , Ronald Feldman , Pat Hearn and Feature have been there for some time . |
| 21 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
| 22 | 50 officers are involved in the hunt for the man 's attackers ; scenes of crime and forensic experts have been here for most of the day . |
| 23 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 24 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 25 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 26 | The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years . |