Example sentences of "has [been] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And has been for over 40 years . |
| 2 | And as I said , Mrs Mary she 's the national treasurer and has been for over thirty years . |
| 3 | But this is my dwelling place and has been for nearly four months now . |
| 4 | It is amazing how dominant the educational establishment has been for so long , which is totally unacceptable . |
| 5 | It is in the system and has been for as long as I can recall . |
| 6 | ‘ Sir Ralph Grunte , and has been for as long as I can remember . ’ |
| 7 | You see I I think er er probably one of the best erm Ministers of er of er Education that er has been for quite some considerable time and I bet you throw your hands up in horror when I say this you will totally disagree and I 'm talking here cos his name 's just slipped out of my mind . |
| 8 | For some time the weapons states have maintained that the peaceful trade in peaceful atoms has been for purely peaceful purposes . |
| 9 | In recent years the alpine trend has been for less adventurous climbing : bolted instant classics from climbers ' such as Michel Piola — safe rock routes with a savage backdrop . |
| 10 | In so far as the house does represent a large capital asset , and it undoubtedly does , I am quite clear that in the long term , house prices are likely , generally to rise with inflation , indeed I would think must do so or perhaps to rise rather more quickly than inflation if there is a rising population and as there has been for very , very ma many years have passed , that , in the passed a decreasing occupancy rate . |