Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] for many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The place anciently belonged to the Fauconbergs , but has been for many generations the seat of the Bethells . |
| 2 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 3 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 4 | Suppose State C has been for many years the major supplier of wheat to State A. If States A and B make an agreement that A will buy wheat from B instead of from C , this will affect C which will have to decide upon its response . |
| 5 | The Heart of Wales Line is now under greater threat than it has been for many years , because of financial pressures from British Rail in general and Regional Railways in particular . |
| 6 | However , the truth of the matter is that the Scottish economy is in a better state now than it has been for many years and is continuing to thrive . |
| 7 | I know that that is not entirely agreeable to some of my hon. Friends and to some Opposition Members , but that is the fact of life — and has been for many years . |
| 8 | The census has been for many years now an important instrument , among a range of such instruments , in the administration of the welfare state . |
| 9 | She keeps busy with local activities and has been for many years editor of her church magazine . |
| 10 | Norfolk has been for many years one of our Medau strongholds and it is for this reason that the Society decided to select this prestigious location . |
| 11 | erm Listeners will probably know that there has been for many years what 's called the Schools Council , which has looked at erm curriculum matters and examination matters , and a year or so ago it was decided to discontinue the Schools Council , and to replace it by two successor committees , one the School Curriculum Development Committee , which you 've already mentioned and which I chair , and a parallel committee concerned with examinations , the School Examination , sorry the Secondary Examination Council , which is chaired by a mathematician , Sir Wilfred Cockroft . |
| 12 | Since the inter-war years , Britain has been for many people an upwardly mobile society , with children from working-class homes winning jobs in the expanding service class . |