Example sentences of "[noun sg] has be [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 ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin .
10 The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming .
11 Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time .
12 The Great Britain half-back has been out for a month with strained stomach muscles .
13 The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time .
14 The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights .
15 ‘ The fishery has been here for over 400 years , so we want to make sure we maintain it for future generations , ’ said Mr Horne .
16 The record has been out for a couple of years , and it 's called ‘ Electric Counterpoint ’ .
17 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 .
18 ‘ When a person has been underground for so many years it 's a new lease of life ’ ; ‘ it 's just a grand feeling . ’
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 The strong-running Kiwi has been out for around five weeks after a trapped nerve in his back .
22 ‘ This outfit has been together for almost three years , everyone knows each other , we all get on and there 's no prima donnas etime . ’
23 Modern man has been around for 4 hours .
24 The journalist spends time on the story and then discovers that the subject has been around for years .
25 And when the hole has been there for a couple of days , they can dig another if necessary .
26 Homoeopathy has been around for nearly two hundred years .
27 AS part of the Midland Railway Centre 's development the Narrow Gauge Railway Project has been underway for a number of years with volunteers working to re-create a length of line to both carry passengers into the Country Park and demonstrate the uses of this track gauge .
28 you see , if you put a line it costs you about a hundred a thirty quid now I think , but according to what they tell me , once a line has been in for a year if you put a line in , you 've got to pay the first year , its got ta be in for a year , if you have it taken out before the year , you 'll still be due for the rental on it
29 FX has been out for a while first on Sun Sparc 's and Hewett-Packard Co 9000/400s last December , then on DECstation 5000s and HP 700s in January and finally on IBM 6000s in July .
30 Your fax has been here for about a week now , I 'll bring it down for you .
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