Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 3 | The humble raisin has been around for at least 2,000 years , but it has n't always been very popular — particularly in the US where novelty is all when it comes to food . |
| 4 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 5 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 6 | For example , one wonders if the doubts about the unity of geography are any less profound than those that afflict environmental science , but geography has been around for much longer and has developed powerful institutional , professional and curricular structures , not least in the schools . |
| 7 | As the Doctor gives the conventional lore of his day , a blend of ethics and medicine : we see that we are also those ‘ deaf pillows ’ , that the masking and unmasking has been all for our sake . |
| 8 | Operating as Shadowfax Restaurants , the partnership has been together for a number of years , and currently has two Pizza Express outlets in Barnet and Finchley , and part ownership of a pizza restaurant in the West End of London . |
| 9 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 10 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 11 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |
| 12 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 13 | The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming . |
| 14 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 15 | The Great Britain half-back has been out for a month with strained stomach muscles . |
| 16 | The plan had been originally for Rohan to marry Antoinette , but because she was the Baronne 's niece , not Gaston 's , the inheritance would have been penalised financially by the government . |
| 17 | " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin . |
| 18 | You see , some girl 's been out for a drink , or to a disco , met a fella , the fella invites her back , she goes , and things go a bit further than she intended . |
| 19 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 20 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 21 | ‘ The fishery has been here for over 400 years , so we want to make sure we maintain it for future generations , ’ said Mr Horne . |
| 22 | The record has been out for a couple of years , and it 's called ‘ Electric Counterpoint ’ . |
| 23 | However the very fact that the product has been around for so long and is so well established in the corporate market place that makes it a worth taking seriously . |
| 24 | Second , it was based in and expressed a paradox : that the educational reform had been primarily for men ; women were still relatively excluded . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , my husband 's been away for a while . |
| 26 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 27 | ‘ When a person has been underground for so many years it 's a new lease of life ’ ; ‘ it 's just a grand feeling . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The concept has been around for at least 30 years ; the American Hospital Supply Corporation was receiving electronic purchase orders from the hospitals it supplied in the early 1960s . |
| 30 | The strong-running Kiwi has been out for around five weeks after a trapped nerve in his back . |