Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 2 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 7 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
| 8 | On the lighter side , the Cessna 195B has been around for some time , having been auctioned at Duxford in April 1990 and , although remaining in the UK since then , has only just been registered . |
| 9 | Axil 's existing compatibles are the $13,000 HWS-S210 which has been around for some time , the $17,000 HWS-S310 model 3.0 and the $23,500 HWS-S310 model 4.1 which are due next quarter . |
| 10 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 11 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 12 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 13 | We decided to test a model that has been round for some time on the professional market , and is popular amongst tradesman working on side — the Makita 6012HDW Cordless Driver Drill . |
| 14 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 15 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 16 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 17 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 18 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 19 | It is made from M. spicata , but there are many other mints with various distinct aromas and flavours — garden mint is the most commonly used and has been so for many centuries . |
| 20 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 21 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 22 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 23 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 24 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 25 | On 30 June Colonel Wilkinson was at his desk catching up on policy matters after having been away for several days visiting units in the Liverpool area and attending an Army Catering Corps Promotion Selection Board held at Exeter . |
| 26 | Oh yeah , it 's getting quite cold , I reckon were in for some snow . |
| 27 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 28 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 29 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 30 | He had been away for some hours . |