Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [prep] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Corporation may have been on cover for several years and when subsidence damage is discovered , it requires full underpinning . |
| 2 | Even if he added some new music for the revival , all the rest must already have been on paper for the premiere . |
| 3 | Anyway the workload gradually increased until I found I could n't continue any longer and have been off work for the last six months . |
| 4 | When they finally moved out their successors found the floor covered with six layers of linoleum — the bottom ones must have been in position for many a long year ! |
| 5 | If I 'd come when you first asked me , I might have been in Saracen for an entire month : I 'd probably have no job to come back to . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ In May next year she will have been in remission for five years , ’ explains her mum . |
| 7 | Although the conference was just up the road in Edinburgh this time , it might as well have been in Timbuktu for all the relevance it held for must of us . |
| 8 | A discrete block of land may have been in existence for a long time before it was first described in a written document . |
| 9 | You could even have a personalised château holiday , enjoying the hospitality of a family who may well have been in residence for generations . |
| 10 | In certain cases the insured or members of his household may not have been in residence for a considerable period but has relied upon friends or neighbours to perform an occasional check of the property . |
| 11 | New courses appear every year to compete with those which are already on the market ( some of which may have been in use for many years ) and which are quite successful in their various ways . |
| 12 | By the next general election ( say 1 991 ) the Conservatives will have been in office for sixteen of the twenty-one years since 1970 . |
| 13 | This order now provides for the full year 's 4.1 per cent increase to be applied from April to the October rates , even though they will have been in place for only six months . |
| 14 | To belong , a dealer must have been in business for three years and have a proven reputation for expertise . |
| 15 | Janet adds : ‘ Before the idea of the ‘ drop-in ’ centre , we would have been forced to admit the mother and she would have been in hospital for a few days . |
| 16 | From this point on he might have been in Oz for all he knew . |
| 17 | As a schoolboy it was thought he would have been in line for an International cap had the war not prevented all that . |