Example sentences of "[verb] been for [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 erm The response has been for that authority then to groin its bit of beach , and so we end up with a situation today where along the Sussex coast practically the whole of the coast is groined , except for the areas which are backed by high cliffs , erm where we have the sorts of rates of erosion that I mentioned .
2 The census has been for many years now an important instrument , among a range of such instruments , in the administration of the welfare state .
3 At this moment the King , who had been for some time busily writing in his notebook , called out , ‘ Silence ! ’ and read out from his book , ‘ Rule Forty-Two .
4 " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted .
5 My children do go to school and have been for some months now .
6 My children do go to school and have been for some months now .
7 Yes my children do go to school and have been for some months now .
8 Yes my children do go to school oh I was going to say , have been for some months now .
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