Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [prep] existence " in BNC.
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| 1 | A key link with the mainland , the Larne-Stranraer route has been in existence for almost 130 years and has become an integral part of Ulster 's maritime heritage . |
| 2 | Well you could say that erm our background goes back erm twenty-five years , in fact , we 've had a considerable involvement with industry both local and national for as long as the University has been in existence , which is now nearly twenty-five years . |
| 3 | Braintree Concerts Music Club has been in existence for 22 years , but is looking for new ways to promote itself following the decision by the district council to withdraw its grant . |
| 4 | The Young England Rugby Club has been in existence for two years but is now being relaunched as a major part of the RFU youth initiative with its own clear aims and ambitions . |
| 5 | Local youth offices had been in existence in a few cities as early as 1909 in Mainz ( founded by the mayor Georg Schmidt ) and 1910 in Hamburg . |
| 6 | Over the four years that The Catering Guild has been in existence , staff numbers have grown to 490 , spread nationally . |
| 7 | Inevitably , in such a well-established industry — modern-style factoring has been in existence in the UK since the 1960s product improvement has come at the margins . |
| 8 | In the 23 years that that council has been in existence , it has not complied with the 1968 Act . |
| 9 | This cemetery has been in existence since 1965 and is lovingly tended by regular visitors who often bring fresh flowers to mark the last resting place of a faithful friend . |
| 10 | Lisburn have been in existence for more than 150 years and is Ulster 's oldest surviving cricket club . |
| 11 | MURTON Brass Band has been in existence for more than 100 years and to say thank you to the people of the village who have kept the band going , they are to give a concert at the Victoria Club . |
| 12 | The Beacon had been in existence for many years and in the past had catered for up to thirty children with a wide range of disabilities and needs . |
| 13 | By then , however , the main outlines have been in existence for a very long time , and it is these earlier arrangements about which we really need to know more and where future research should be concentrated . |
| 14 | The Commission has been in existence for the same length of time as the Fair Employment Agency , since 1976 . |
| 15 | The EGBT have been in existence for some years and have proved themselves a respectable and reliable organisation with several completed projects to their credit . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought that , since your society has been in existence for ten years , I might do an article on your work . ’ |
| 17 | Although difficult to date he believes the trackway to have been in existence for at least 2,000 years and may well pre-date Roman times . |
| 18 | Both the US Navy and Army had run their own intelligence departments since the early 1880s while the FBI had been in existence since 1910 and had been responsible for collating foreign intelligence . |
| 19 | Indy Car racing has been in existence since 1909 . |
| 20 | But the communists in Russia were er th all this er Gulag Arli Archipelago and secret police have been in existence in Russia for hundreds of years before the com er communists came in . |
| 21 | English Estates had been in existence for some years , but its traditional role had been factory building and commercial development on green field sites with 5,000 factories and offices on 508 estates . |
| 22 | Working for ICI enabled him to join their club at Norton Hall where a single croquet lawn has been in existence and played on at least since the end of the 1939–45 War . |
| 23 | The planning system has been in existence in roughly its present form since 1947 but no one has before attempted to measure how much the system costs . |
| 24 | The company has been in existence for eight years now and is completely independent . |
| 25 | Some sort of fire prevention had been in existence , for a number of hydrants were placed around the village and earlier in the same year extra hydrants were provided and the fire appliance committee was formed . |
| 26 | Others have been in existence for years , yet seem to hold out little hope of attracting new recruits . |
| 27 | MAGISTRATES ' Courts have been in existence for hundreds of years , presided over by lay Justices of the Peace ( magistrates ) , that is people who have no legal qualification . |
| 28 | The Computer Co-ordination Section has been in existence for over five years and too much time is wasted just saying the name . |
| 29 | The idea that an industry could leave behind a polluting aftermath for longer than civilization has been in existence has made the waste issue one of the strongest strands in the antinuclear case . |
| 30 | In Ireland , credit unions have been in existence for a decade longer than in Britain , but there are now over 450 unions , with a membership exceeding three-quarters of a million . |