Example sentences of "has [been] [adv prt] for [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 2 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 3 | THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years . |
| 4 | The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 . |
| 5 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 6 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |