Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recently read an assessment report which stated , ‘ Her mother seems to have disappeared and has n't been heard of for six months . |
| 2 | we approximately the subject we had been looking at for some time so I approximately , nineteen eighty eight , nineteen eighty nine |
| 3 | Er I do n't know how many of you made wills but er draw him out on other things if you 've got any problems I mean we we had quite an interesting session at one of the power station talks on a er tenant er tenancy agreement that a chap had been bothered about for some years . |
| 4 | Digital networks , in the form of ISDN ( integrated services digital network ) have been talked about for many years , and in mainly technical terms . |
| 5 | ‘ It is completely novel for a high-street retailer to launch an added-value card like this , through it 's been talked about for some time , ’ says Ian Minors , managing director of Moss Bros agency MHA Direct . |
| 6 | At the centre , community care has been talked of for thirty years and in few areas can the gap between political rhetoric and policy on the one hand , or between policy and reality in the field on the other hand , have been so great . |
| 7 | Its soothing action has been called upon for many generations . |
| 8 | If he 's been travelling for for zero hours , how far has he gone ? |
| 9 | Many employees are using the excuse of falling sales to impose changes to previously agreed conditions , often using the excuse to impose changes to conditions that have been fought for for many years . |
| 10 | That 's what they 'd been fighting for for twenty years . |
| 11 | The best way to start on this dis section of this discussion may be to erm express the observation that the county council and at least one of the local authorities which is Harrogate , erm are already engaged in have been engaged in for some time a very positive erm activity to try and attract to the county inward investment predicament that the economic development unit of the county council , the economic development of at of at least the one local authority that I have named and erm prospective developers such I 'm representing today , share common predicament , is that the existing structure plan constructs some obstructions , erects some obstructions to the attraction of inward investment into the county . |
| 12 | Far from being a new threat , evolutionism was something that the conservative forces had been battling with for several decades . |
| 13 | ‘ The machine has a great potential for use at the centre and its restoration has been a project that we have all been working towards for some while . ’ |