Example sentences of "been [noun] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations .
2 As already noted there have been calls for national statements to encourage central and local government to develop sensitive and appropriate family and child care policies , and good child care service and practice .
3 He has been chairman for ten years of the Scottish Business School , which comprises the business studies departments of the Universities of Glasgow , Strathclyde , Edinburgh , Heriot Watt and Stirling .
4 More than half the respondents , 54 per cent , said they had been readers for at least ten years and three quarters ( 76 per cent ) had been readers for five years .
5 There may also have been opportunities for paid work experience .
6 Beguiled by state-of-the-art techniques ( of the kind deployed for ‘ Cités-Cinés ’ , which captured the public imagination five years ago ) , architects and stage designers , experts from the worlds of cinema and advertising , as well as art historians , will create a series of typical settings , which were or could have been subjects for Impressionist paintings .
7 Those classed as ‘ other homes ’ included convalescent homes , a rehabilitation centre , an assessment centre , a holiday home for the disabled and rest homes which may in practice have been homes for older people ( the classification was made on the basis of the information given by the person interviewed ) .
8 They 'd been almost-friends for six years .
9 There have been concerns for some time that IBM Corp was fast running out of cash — the UK subsidiary was reportedly ordered to factor its receivables by its parent at the end of last year after it ran out of cash for its operations , hardly a cheap way of borrowing for a blue chip company , and the Reuter report that it and IBM Credit Corp are seeking $4,600m of revolving credit in the international syndicated loan market ( see page seven ) , seems to confirm it ; at least one source told the news wire that IBM is trying to keep the arrangement very quiet , presumably to avoid generating more alarm than there already is about progress of its business .
10 As could be anticipated , those who had been tenants for several years , and therefore qualified for bigger discounts , were over-represented among the purchasers .
11 There had been publicity for occasional outbursts of violence and bad language or for shocking displays of sexuality , but there had never really been a significant breakthrough in terms of outspoken social statement .
12 It has certainly caused some confusion amongst my friends — I have been Mrs for 44 years ! —
13 Nonetheless , in both companies there has been scope for local initiative on the margin of national agreements , and at times in violation of them .
14 Spencer 's conduct at the new Debtors ' Prison in Whitecross Street , where in 1828 he had been keeper for six years , was the subject of a Memorial from James Neild 's Thatched House Society to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London .
15 Within the Miners ' Federation and the Amalgamated Engineering Union , which had been centres for anti-war activity in 1916 , the Communist position still received some support .
16 The Austrian Communist Party ( Kommunistische Partei Österreichs — KPÖ ) at its congress in Vienna on Jan. 20-21 , 1990 , accepted the decision of Franz Muhri , who had been chair for 25 years , not to stand for re-election .
17 They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets .
18 After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them …
19 He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project .
20 ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow .
21 He and Botham have been friends for 20 years , and Chris says : ‘ He is a walking miracle .
22 Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know .
23 They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long .
24 They have worked together and have been friends for some time .
25 The Commissioners enquired how and why would the pension be paid , and the Governors explained that Hamilton was now 67 , had been Headmaster for 27 years , and although not then in bad health had two or three years previously had a serious illness , and was not considered equal to the work .
26 They have n't been champions for 26 years and it could be another 26 before they win it again .
27 The inadequacy of the rest will have been cause for serious concern in the England camp .
28 They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently .
29 Mr Heddle had been MP for Mid Staffordshire since 1983 , with a majority of 14,654 in 1987 .
30 But if you wanted to take your revenge and kill me , because of some ancient grudge against somebody who 's been dust for 200 years , then why did n't you just do it last night at my house ?
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