Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne Hayward has been a member for 15 years and re-reads the Lord of the Rings annually in three or four days . |
| 2 | As the record company had grown , it too had been broken down into smaller units : DinDisc had been a model for two more affiliated labels , 10 and Siren . |
| 3 | Chief instructor Ron Barr said Mr McWhinney had been a member for at least six or seven years . |
| 4 | The Video Electronics Standards Association in San Jose is not too pleased with one of its members , Dell Computer Corp , which has suddenly jumped up to claim that some VL-Bus products to its standard infringe one of Dell 's patents : ‘ We are both surprised and saddened that one of the companies involved in ratifying the VL-Bus standard would take such an action , ’ said Association chairman Scott Vouri ; the patent appears to claim rights to a computer system receptive to a board that plugs into both a system input-output bus and a high speed expansion memory bus ; Dell has been a member for over a year , having joined the club in February 1992 , and voted to approve the standard ; the group also says that like all the other members , Dell signed a statement indicating no knowledge of any conflicts with its patents . |
| 5 | George Hamilton has been a friend for a long time ? |
| 6 | Joe had been a bookie for over twenty years , gradually moving into loan sharking . |
| 7 | David Moore had been a pilot for 25 years , flying with the Fleet Air Arm before joining Rolls Royce . |
| 8 | The Rector and Mrs Chamberlin , Lady Pemberley , Mrs Burrows and Harry , a tribe of Langleys , George Langley on his own several times , and a host of others Alexandra had never seen , but to whom Aunt Emily had been a fixture for more than 50 years . |
| 9 | September has been a month for changes . |
| 10 | Malcolm Davis from Golders Green has been a fan for 40 years . |
| 11 | Surgical nurse practitioner Lou Jacobs has been a nurse for 17 years and has over 12 years ' experience in intensive care units . |
| 12 | Reginald Oliffe , who 's 44 , was said in court at Cheltenham to have been a farmer for 25 years . |
| 13 | Charles had been a bachelor for thirty-two years . |
| 14 | He added that Mr O'Reilly had been a pharmacist for 42 years and was ‘ genuinely although misguidedly attempting to help people suffering from this terrible condition ’ . |
| 15 | Yet Elizabeth had been a widow for over ten years , and her children were very nearly off her hands ; it is quite possible that her brief sojourn in the workhouse was part of an attempt to give her life a new direction and meaning — perhaps she was there as a helper , a visitor , a counsellor to those in need , or even as a missionary spreading the gospel of Christianity in general or that of the Lady Huntingdon 's Connexion in particular . |
| 16 | Claro had been a backwater for long enough . |
| 17 | Clearly , CMHTs have been a vehicle for coordinating the work of a wide variety of professionals involved with mentally handicapped people . |