Example sentences of "[verb] been [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He has been MP for Hull East since 1970 . |
| 4 | Mr Heseltine who 's a millionaire has been MP for Henley since 1974 . |
| 5 | The affable Michael , 61 , has been MP for Westmoreland since 1964 after cutting his political teeth at Wakefield in the 1959 general election . |
| 6 | In Chemicals Manufacturing at Royston and Brimsdown it has been time for change . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 9 | It must have been reference for Jenny to be |
| 10 | Cobalt shook his head , which might have meant he did n't know or might have been admonishment for Oliver who was still holding the bottle of wine . |
| 11 | Between then and now there would not have been time for Newley to drive down to Miller 's End , walk to the gazebo , get himself killed and become as cold as he was . |
| 12 | Such wide spaces may have been places for furniture — certainly , a number of different positions from which to view a pavement is desirable . |
| 13 | This observation , made by the village case study in 1984 , should have been cause for concern , since four years previously it had been demonstrated that the village practitioners in Bangladesh were willing and capable of being trained in the use and administration of oral rehydration solutions . |
| 14 | Had Mountbatten been lambasting the Arabs , there might well have been grounds for constraint . |
| 15 | Nolan regularly rides the horse , Chickweed , that Angela Brickell had care of , and there would have been opportunities for sex at race meetings , like in a horse-box , if he wanted to take the risk . |
| 16 | ‘ There would have been stalls for coffee , gingerbread and souvenirs , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Gore , who had made an impressive if unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 , was the product of a patrician southern family , his father having been Senator for Tennessee . |
| 18 | Having been exporters for decades , Japan 's car makers are at last becoming real multinationals , with factories all over the world . |
| 19 | ‘ What a pleasure it has been , and an honour to have been MP for Winchester for 13 years , ’ he said , thanking those who had supported him in the past year . |
| 20 | For whatever reason , Neil , who had almost looked forward to relieving his body 's urgent demands — he seemed to have been continent for years , and McAllister 's arrival in Vetch Street had most inconveniently revived his dormant senses — found that he was disgusted with himself most of all . |
| 21 | The weather had been kind for Boz 's wedding but it was less so for Tom and Dolly . |
| 22 | She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years . |
| 23 | There had been calls for Belkheir 's resignation after the Algerian press pointed out that the " special intervention unit " charged with Boudiaf 's security came under Interior Ministry control . |
| 24 | , Peter ( 1806–1883 ) , industrial chemist and alum manufacturer , was born 19 February 1806 in Brechin , Forfarshire , Scotland , the son of a hand-loom weaver of Brechin , and his wife , whose family had been farmers for generations . |
| 25 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |
| 26 | If Woonerven had been expensive , there must be doubt as to whether they had been value for money . |
| 27 | His ancestors had been MPs for Liverpool on and off since 1307 , and his father served in the Parliament of 1625 , besides being sheriff of Lancashire in 1620 . |
| 28 | In a famous essay , H. J. Laski recorded that between 1832 and 1906 , out of 139 judges appointed , 80 were Members of the House of Commons at the time of their nomination and 11 others had been candidates for Parliament ; that , of the 80 , 63 were appointed by their own party while in office ; and 33 of them had been either Attorney-General or Solicitor-General . |
| 29 | We 've been friends for years . |
| 30 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |