Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [pron] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having successfully struck out on his own in 1962 , he has since been involved with the South East London Society , and has been its treasurer for the past two years . |
| 2 | Former County Donegal coach No. 28 leaves the caravan site that has been its home for 30 years to return to the railway . |
| 3 | ‘ It has been her home for well over thirty years and she needs some stability after losing Father . |
| 4 | It 's the second time this month , Mrs Jones has been robbed ; this tied cottage has been her home for 72 years . |
| 5 | ‘ Jason has been my boss for the last year , and as far as I was concerned a reasonably good one . |
| 6 | This has been my home for more than twenty years . |
| 7 | " The furniture well , it has been my hobby for many years . |
| 8 | Glancing at the ‘ who duz wot ’ bit has been my wont for many an aeon , I spotted an absence . |
| 9 | He had a lovely hand , and wrote about him that ‘ this man has been my coachman for a number of years and I have no hesitation in highly recommending him … ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Becoming a Methodist minister has been my ambition for many years . |
| 11 | It has been our practise for some time now to give out names addresses and telephone numbers of local teachers to any one making enquiries at promotional events . |
| 12 | It has been our policy for the past 12 years to limit investigation of such patients to upper gastrointestinal endoscopy , with endoscopic small bowel biopsy , and barium enema . |
| 13 | Peter Bergg , Liberal Democrat candidate for Darlington , said : ‘ Regional government has been our policy for some years now , I 'm flabbergasted by how many of our policies the Labour Party are taking on board at the moment to try and win the middle ground . |
| 14 | The craft has been his hobby for the past years , and in that time he has seen it grow immensely in popularity . |
| 15 | My man in Alexandria , Fischer , thinks Sau-leyan was n't responsible for his brother 's death , but there 's good reason to believe that Hung Mien-lo has been his man for some time now . ’ |
| 16 | Three months pregnant , yesterday Shelley Williams lost her baby , today she returned from hospital what 's been her home for the last two months , a tent pitched on a grass verge outside the home of her boyfriend 's parents . |
| 17 | It 's been their justification for apartheid . |
| 18 | ‘ She 's been my secretary for two years , is quiet and reserved and madly in love with the man she lives with . |