Example sentences of "have been for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her students , she says , are well prepared for Europe , and have been for a long time . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , most buildings built for the purposes of ‘ agriculture ’ have been for a long time exempt from such planning control as can be exercised by local planning authorities . |
| 3 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 4 | Boozy Dennett — who earns £600 a week with his dummy Chick — added : ‘ I have been for a walk to have a think and went back , but it 's getting worse . ’ |
| 5 | A good deal gives me the feeling that I have been for a nice seven-day trip to the Bahamas . ’ |
| 6 | If two systems have been for a period of time in dynamical isolation from each other , then a measurement on the first system can produce no real change in the second . |
| 7 | Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time . |
| 9 | The S A S have operated in Northern Ireland and have been for a long time . |
| 10 | Here in Scotland I 'm old enough to get married without my parent 's permission , and have been for a year . |
| 11 | McNab , who hit his first goal of the season , said : ‘ The second half was as poor as we have been for a long time but recent performances have been magnificent . |
| 12 | Most of them , perhaps , were doctors , government servants of one degree or another ; a few were farmers ( I can think of one , still remembered ) and some were just friends , as I myself have been for the Bakgatia and , I hope , for the whole new country of Botswana . |
| 13 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
| 14 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 15 | Some of the Government 's changes have been for the better . |
| 16 | Half of all the records since 1947 have been for the period mid-February to mid-April , particularly March , with 30 per cent. , which suggests that there is a fairly regular , although small , spring movement through the county . |
| 17 | As far as is known all the records have been for the period spring to autumn . |
| 18 | Wintering birds favour coastal farmland and marshes and a high proportion of recent records have been for the Selsey peninsular , the Beachy Head area , and from Rye to the Midrips . |
| 19 | ‘ Considerable amounts are being spent on replacing them with better services , and have been for the past few years . |
| 20 | The German study spells out how catastrophic the last 15 years have been for the now emasculated British industry . |
| 21 | If it had n't have been for the policeman there would have been untold carnage . ’ |
| 22 | And would it be impolite of me to enquire exactly where you and the other officers have been for the last eight hours ? ’ |
| 23 | Obviously the standards are not satisfactory but they are the same as they have been for the last 30 years and they are of Mr Pritchard 's choosing . |