Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv prt] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 2 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 3 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |
| 4 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 5 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 6 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 7 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 8 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |
| 9 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 11 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 12 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 13 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 14 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 15 | In looking for the answers , let us begin with those citizens who have been around for the longest time — the elderly and those in later middle age . |
| 16 | I mean surely that is a subject that 's been around for a hundred years ? |
| 17 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 18 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |