Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 2 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 11 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 12 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 18 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 19 | It is made from M. spicata , but there are many other mints with various distinct aromas and flavours — garden mint is the most commonly used and has been so for many centuries . |
| 20 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 21 | Computer Users of Europe ( CUE ) , a user group that 's been around for some time on an informal basis , has gone official : it has drafted a constitution and has a steering committee working on making it formal . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | Getting the old cistern out can sometimes be a problem — particularly if it 's been there for some time . |
| 24 | He 's been out for some time . |