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

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1 There have been calls for legislation to give suppliers an automatic right to claim interest on overdue payments and for debt collecting procedures in the courts to be simplified .
2 There had been calls for Belkheir 's resignation after the Algerian press pointed out that the " special intervention unit " charged with Boudiaf 's security came under Interior Ministry control .
3 Heads of department from the Soviet trade union centre , the AUCCTU , are expected to visit Congress House in the New Year on a fact-finding mission , and there have been requests for training links to be built between the TUC and the Hungarian trade union body , SZOT , which has been attempting to restructure itself over the last two years .
4 These are almost always the same men , the ones who own the guns and the best-trained dogs , whose families have been hunters for years , passing their knowledge and experience down through the generations until it 's almost in the blood .
5 There have also been proposals for cuts in public spending .
6 Having been exporters for decades , Japan 's car makers are at last becoming real multinationals , with factories all over the world .
7 In a famous essay , H. J. Laski recorded that between 1832 and 1906 , out of 139 judges appointed , 80 were Members of the House of Commons at the time of their nomination and 11 others had been candidates for Parliament ; that , of the 80 , 63 were appointed by their own party while in office ; and 33 of them had been either Attorney-General or Solicitor-General .
8 The film industry and the export of works of art , so far primarily the joint responsibility of the OAL and the Department of Trade and Industry , have long been candidates for transfer to an enlarged arts department .
9 Nolan regularly rides the horse , Chickweed , that Angela Brickell had care of , and there would have been opportunities for sex at race meetings , like in a horse-box , if he wanted to take the risk .
10 BA cadets do sixty hours of LOFT in the three-axis jet simulators after gaining their CPL/IRs , and Cyprus Airways , Gulf Air and the International Test Pilots School have also been clients for LOFT courses .
11 There have several times been movements for reform in the course of this century .
12 There have been stations for service establishments , such as RAF Cranwell and Cosford Aerodrome .
13 There have been stations for factories .
14 There have been stations for hospitals ( Cheddleton Asylum , Whittingham Hospital ) and stations for schools ( Wellington College , Christ 's Hospital ) .
15 Such wide spaces may have been places for furniture — certainly , a number of different positions from which to view a pavement is desirable .
16 Petite Forlarty which is a castle in the middle , just on the outskirts of Florence er and e for some reason I mean the c the Italians have been colourists for yonks .
17 , Peter ( 1806–1883 ) , industrial chemist and alum manufacturer , was born 19 February 1806 in Brechin , Forfarshire , Scotland , the son of a hand-loom weaver of Brechin , and his wife , whose family had been farmers for generations .
18 ‘ There would have been stalls for coffee , gingerbread and souvenirs , ’ he said .
19 We 've been friends for years .
20 There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely .
21 Our families have been friends for years . ’
22 She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years .
23 She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years .
24 On a sale of a private company , or if there have been reorganisations for taxation purposes , it is common for the seller to require the contract to be conditional on a clearance under s.703 ( cancellation of tax advantage ) and any other applicable tax provisions .
25 And in Sylvia s case there had certainly been causes for distress .
26 But the main items of most concern have been grants for surface cultivation ( ploughing and rotovation ) , drainage and fertilisers , whether paid under Development Plans or as one-off capital aids ( see Chapter 6 ) .
27 There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’
28 There have been gains for nature conservation in that the storms have prompted a fundamental questioning of the received view .
29 Had Mountbatten been lambasting the Arabs , there might well have been grounds for constraint .
30 We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing .
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