Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [be] [verb] for many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bell said : ‘ My programme has been set for many weeks and every day is tied up . ’ |
| 2 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 3 | FLARES on the Sun have been known for many years to produce powerful bursts of X-rays , gamma-rays and charged particles . |
| 4 | Salicylate nephrotoxicity has been recognised for many years . |
| 5 | Variants of this reaction have been known for many years . |
| 6 | Variants of this reaction have been known for many years . |
| 7 | Paraconductivity has been reported for many different compounds in various forms , but no consensus about the dimensionality in these materials has been reached . |
| 8 | Its bid to become a polytechnic has been supported for many years by Conservative Members from Derbyshire . |
| 9 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 10 | In recent years , the Shetland summer season has been tainted for many of us by the knowledge that thousands of our sea-birds have failed to raise any young . |
| 11 | That Soviet ships dumped nuclear waste in the area has been suspected for many years . |
| 12 | Indeed , the role of fibrinogen in platelet aggregation has been recognised for many years ( Born & Cross , 1964 ; Brinkhaus et al , 1965 ) . |
| 13 | This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change . |
| 14 | The gall bladder epithelium has been considered for many years to be an excellent model for the study of the physiological properties of epithelial cells and in particular ion transport . |
| 15 | Although the general distribution of earthquakes around the world had been known for many years , it was only with the establishment of a comprehensive network of seismographic stations to monitor underground nuclear weapons testing in the early 1960s that a detailed global picture emerged ( Fig. 2.10 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Hemp has been grown for many years on the Continent and this decision will allow UK farmers to gain a share of the market currently occupied by our EC partners . ’ |
| 17 | Our system of construction has been used for many years all over this country , by the sponsoring authorities and others , and erm we do n't have the earthquake requirements , but we do need many high value schools both quickly and on time , and we 've completed something like 2,000 projects similar to this over many years . |
| 18 | Sometimes this research was located in areas where the effects of human activity had been sustained for many centuries . |
| 19 | Interventions by schools to reduce smoking have been undertaken for many decades , although little attention has been given to assessing their effectiveness . |
| 20 | To ‘ off-comed 'uns ’ it is not even a large village , with only 2,080 inhabitants , but to the native it is a town because it has held a market charter since 1223 and although no market has been held for many years , the charter was read once a year in the market place until 1939 . |
| 21 | Salt has been used for many centuries as a preservative , whereby it is left on food to withdraw the moisture present by the process of osmosis . |