Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] been [prep] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hercules transport aircraft , which has been on standby for the past two days will fly to the Croatian capital Zagreb . |
| 2 | Union officials claimed their members were locked out after the 400 strong workforce , which has been on strike for just over two weeks , met yesterday to consider a management proposal . |
| 3 | One is , of course , that an old and tried medicine which has been on use for perhaps a hundred/a hundred and fifty/two hundred years is really a very safe medicine and you wo n't come to much harm by buying it and taking it . |
| 4 | The plane looks almost identical to the old Hercules which has been in service for over a quarter of a century . |
| 5 | Only the skylit fifth floor opens permanently on 19 February with an expanded sampling of the museum 's contemporary collection , much of which has been in storage for years , and with a long-term installation of a promised gift of twenty-seven works by American abstract artist Leon Polk Smith ( b. 1906 ) . |
| 6 | That there is a conventional element in the distinction is shown by the fact that procedures expressed as programs can also be expressed by the hardware structure of machines : the principal programming language of AI is LISP , which has been in existence for about twenty years , but only recently has a ‘ hard-wired ’ LISP-machine been built , one in which the LISP programs are more straight forwardly isomorphic with the operations of the hardware . |
| 7 | The Village Trust is a respected body which has been in existence for many years . |
| 8 | I believe that the figures that the hon. Lady gave earlier were for regional development grant rather than for regional selective assistance , which has been in existence for only about three years , as she will recall . |
| 9 | Coupled to that the er , sort of the statutory protection which has been in existence for er , workers for many years in some cases is , is being whittled away . |
| 10 | A furniture shop which has been in business for more than a century is closing down . |
| 11 | It is part of a move to clear a growing backlog of radioactive waste , some of which has been in store for 25 years . |
| 12 | Supt Tony Rozier said the building , which has been in use for more than 20 years , had suffered a string of attacks by vandals and thieves , contributing to its demise . |
| 13 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |