Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] be [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years . |
| 2 | Axil 's existing compatibles are the $13,000 HWS-S210 which has been around for some time , the $17,000 HWS-S310 model 3.0 and the $23,500 HWS-S310 model 4.1 which are due next quarter . |
| 3 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 4 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 5 | She has been there for two years . |
| 6 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 7 | Irvine , California-based Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 8 | Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 9 | A Turk who 's been there for ten days and the club handyman . ’ |
| 10 | Pulling off the sticky brambles that clung to their jeans , Carrie 's children said , ‘ No one 's been here for hundreds of years … ’ |
| 11 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 12 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 13 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 14 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 15 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 16 | ‘ People say the earth must be sour , but it has been there for eighteen years and still grows plants . |
| 17 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 18 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 19 | Getting the old cistern out can sometimes be a problem — particularly if it 's been there for some time . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not saying they won because of that , but … people are used to it , it 's been there for 20 years . ’ |
| 21 | it 's been inside for two hours and ca n't get out |
| 22 | Well if th if there 's somebody whose listening in the Derby area who can help us with a street lamp that 's out and it 's rather important that it get put on , and it 's been out for six weeks now |
| 23 | Jackie said he 's been up for seven o'clock . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's been back for two days . ’ |
| 25 | He 's been out for some time . |