Example sentences of "[pron] has been for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This process directly undermined the rule of law : ‘ such transference of authority saps the foundation of that rule of law which has been for generations a leading feature of the English constitution . ’
2 She has been for weeks . ’
3 She will stay with the man at whose side she has been for years , Secretary of State James Baker .
4 There 's been more praise for Brian Clough , at the bottom of the League with Forest , than there has been for Norwich manager Mike Walker at the top .
5 And although entitlement caps are not easy to implement , there is more interest in them in Congress than there has been for years , and the interest is being communicated to the administration .
6 It 's also a relaxed , romantic ad for Bill S , more alive here than he has been for decades .
7 It has been for years .
8 That is the way he conducts his business and that is the way it has been for centuries . ’
9 So it has been for centuries , yet the multi-petalled bloom of modern times , epitomized by the modern Hybrid Tea rose ( or , as it is abbreviated , H.T. ) and probably most people 's mental image of all that a rose is and should be , is a product of modern hybridizing and cross-breeding that did not exist even as recently as medieval times .
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