Example sentences of "[vb -s] been for [det] [noun pl] " 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 Indeed , the trend in the recent past has been for such experiments to get simpler and simpler ( more and more transparent ) in terms of the decision-problems given to the subjects .
13 ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years , ’ Mrs Smith said .
14 ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years .
15 The drug AZT , an inhibitor of DNA synthesis , has been for several years the only treatment for those with symptoms of overt AIDS .
16 There has been for some years a basic agreement that the parliamentary salary should be sufficient to prevent MPs feeling the need to seek supplementary income .
17 There is indeed , and has been for some years , discussion on the political level as to whether , and to what extent , public transport , particularly in capital cities , should be regarded , and financed , as a social service , out of taxation whether national or local .
18 Nine tenths of the Leicester ring road is finished and has been for some years .
19 It has to be said that there has been for some years within the Labour Party something of a class divide — a working-class element resentful of a middle-class takeover by lawyers and the like .
20 She then moved to Bristol City Council where she has been for some months .
21 But see what my reward 's been for those years spent glorifying God at my craft . ’
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