Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 2 | The same family has closed it 's delicatessen which has now become an art shop and the butcher whose family has been here for 176 years , closes this weekend . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's married a Welsh girl , has two Welsh kids and has been here for five years . |
| 4 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |
| 5 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
| 6 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 7 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 8 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 9 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 10 | 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 " . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Strangely enough the best stress-buster of all has been around for thousands of years : massage . |
| 14 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 19 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 20 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She added that the faun 's condition was good although ‘ it has been outside for 35 years and is a bit green . ’ |
| 23 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 24 | Curiously , one of the first applications of the JPEG standard has been not for still images but for motion video . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 28 | The cricket pitch has been there for thirty five years . |
| 29 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 30 | She has been there for two years . |