Example sentences of "[vb base] been [vb pp] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they 're a year younger than I am , two years younger and they 've been registered now for six , seven , eight , or nine years . |
| 2 | She said people receiving the letter should not worry that they have been singled out for any genuine reason . |
| 3 | Sera taken before and after transplantation have been tested retrospectively for anti-HC Ab in 12 patients . |
| 4 | While Visa debit cards have been accepted internationally for some time , the Mastercard equivalent , Switch , is still waiting to be linked up to the Mastercard/Eurocard payment system . |
| 5 | The 24 patients in this group with an abnormal naevus pattern have been followed up for 178 person-years . |
| 6 | The prevalence of this diminishes with time after the event , which you might think peculiar , but there are fewer patients who have been followed up for five years . |
| 7 | The central plains of China have been farmed continuously for thousands of years and you begin to wonder how they have stayed fertile . |
| 8 | Briefings have been developed exclusively for senior management ultimately responsible for the design , development , marketing and selling of IT-based products and systems . |
| 9 | Although the modules have been developed primarily for those in adult basic education , they are suited to a wide range of client groups . |
| 10 | Records have been kept there for two hundred years . |
| 11 | I have been lost here for eight years . ’ |
| 12 | Vast areas of Rum have been fenced off for century-long experiment to re-create the natural woodland environment . |
| 13 | Individual project boards have been set up for each area of market testing . |
| 14 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 15 | The lessons are recorded so that the trainee 's performance can be reviewed and measured against criteria which have been set down for that skill . |
| 16 | In particular , a limited number of bursaries have been set aside for mature students . |
| 17 | Several new instructions have been added specifically for superscalar Sparc implementations . |
| 18 | ‘ You have been thrown over for another woman , that 's what I think . |
| 19 | Stone and marble fixtures weighing 400 tonnes from a garden in Boston have been shipped over for this sale . |
| 20 | Similar schemes have been drawn up for several mammalian groups , certain butterfly genera , various reptiles and amphibians while a good deal of work has been carried out on the distributions of the avifauna . |
| 21 | Plans have been drawn up for commercial offices and a smaller centre for church events . |
| 22 | Several racecourses would like to stage more Sunday meetings but so far no fixtures ( apart from a point-to-point ) have been drawn up for next year . |
| 23 | In my view this country is filled with immense new moral forces which have been dammed back for ten years by the great dead bulk of the Labour Party Machine lying like a fallen tree across the road to progress . |
| 24 | Both products have been produced specifically for permed , damaged hair and they replenish moisture lost in the perming process . |
| 25 | Magnets have been used before for this purpose , but never in such a way that water has had to pass through several opposing magnetic fields . |
| 26 | Some have been used informally for many years , subjective assessments such as those made by parents , teachers , and librarians . |
| 27 | A great deal of technological work has been done recently on the seasoning of wood , and safe accelerated drying schedules have been worked out for all kinds and dimensions of timber . |
| 28 | Siemens says that few major innovations have been brought out for this small but very steady market for the past 10 years , which should guarantee take-up . |
| 29 | Similar studies have been carried out for other countries , although the methods vary , reflecting the differences in availability of data and in fiscal systems . |
| 30 | Pilot tests have been carried out for much of this year with both the Choice loans package and direct access , but TSB Direct was formally established on November 1 . |