Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | if it 's doing so well , oh and you would n't have been on that long under a Labour Government , of course , it would 've been jobs for the boys , they 'd 've slipped you in I 'm sure . |
| 2 | In the case of Larbert , there has been support for the application from the Institute of Health Services Management , the Forth Valley college of nursing and midwifery and the National Board for Nursing , Midwifery and Health Visiting . |
| 3 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , in both companies there has been scope for local initiative on the margin of national agreements , and at times in violation of them . |
| 5 | Chris has been Secretary for Trades Council for ten years , he 's a W E A tutor , that 's his er profession , he 's an organizer , and he organizes courses throughout Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . |
| 6 | The Rev Leslie Gready was led from the Friday morning service to the grounds of St Cuthbert 's Church , Darlington , where he has been vicar for the last ten years . |
| 7 | Indeed , there has been widespread belief that management is not really feasible despite the fact that , in terms of producing a naturally-regenerating stand of timber trees without any sign of soil deterioration , there has been success for over a century , beginning with teak in southern Asia . |
| 8 | He has been chairman for ten years of the Scottish Business School , which comprises the business studies departments of the Universities of Glasgow , Strathclyde , Edinburgh , Heriot Watt and Stirling . |
| 9 | His brother has been king for more than three years . |
| 10 | Peter Scudamore has been king for the last seven seasons … but now its Richard Dunwoody 's turn to lead the race … he 's the best they say … the finest horseman … they all want him to win … suddenly the pressure 's on |
| 11 | A former teacher , journalist and Euro-MP , Mrs Clwyd has been MP for Cynon Valley , Mid-Glamorgan , since a by-election in 1984 , when she became the first woman to represent a South Wales mining valley . |
| 12 | He has been MP for Hull East since 1970 . |
| 13 | Mr Heseltine who 's a millionaire has been MP for Henley since 1974 . |
| 14 | The affable Michael , 61 , has been MP for Westmoreland since 1964 after cutting his political teeth at Wakefield in the 1959 general election . |
| 15 | Since the slump of 1921 there has been a prevailing tendency , occasionally interrupted but invariably resumed before there has been time for a real recovery towards parsimony and restriction . |
| 16 | This is to ask whether there has been time for natural selection to specify the DNA present in the human genome . |
| 17 | Both Nicaragua and Cuba have seen significant changes for women , but the Cuban example is particularly instructive , since there has been time for new gender roles to develop . |
| 18 | Fewer papers should be taken at very short notice before there has been time for the Departments to comment on them . |
| 19 | Even when the preference is weak , the switch will not occur unless there has been time for the predators to learn how to handle the other ( now abundant ) species . |
| 20 | In Chemicals Manufacturing at Royston and Brimsdown it has been time for change . |
| 21 | His statement continued : ‘ Caldaire appreciates that monetary problems and not bloody-mindedness are the cause of the problem , but financial hardship never has been justification for non-payment of debt . |
| 22 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 23 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 24 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 25 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 26 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 27 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 28 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 29 | Early on the following day a Lithuanian who had been on duty alone at a nearby post was found shot dead in what some reports suggested might have been revenge for the death of the Byelorussian . |
| 30 | It must have been reference for Jenny to be |