Example sentences of "has for many [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is true that by this choice she sacrificed a community life , which has for many women proved nourishing , but she also gained in personal freedom .
2 Figure 3.1 offers a possible starting-point for explaining why science has for many people ruled out religion .
3 David Beskine of the RA said ‘ This is not private land but open moorland over which the public has for many years had a right to roam .
4 In Britain there has for many years been a sub-proletariat , a sub-class of the working class who are far worse off than the main body , consisting of sweat-shop workers and homeworkers , people who are treated by employers as though they have no rights at all .
5 And Glotz has for many years now supervised all my recordings .
6 But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years .
7 The Department of Agriculture in Scotland has for many years conducted individual farm assessments with appeal committees on which farmers are represented .
8 Perhaps for this reason the law in several areas of censorship has for many years remained quietly in the background , yet with an extensive array of legislation to be respected and always at its disposal .
9 But , in spite of the considerable effort and investment , it has for many years failed to pay its way .
10 In our diets , emphasis has for many years been laid on the intake of saturated fat as the major danger factor , but this is certainly not the whole explanation .
11 The Runnymede Trust has for many years been a reliable and valuable resource for anti-racists .
12 It has for many years been the most widely used method of social research .
13 There is a puzzle that has for many years intrigued mathematicians and philosophers .
14 My own company has for many years had the ambition to have our business spread in rough proportion to the pattern of chemical demand in the world market .
15 The presence of residual pottery in stratified deposits has for many years bedevilled structural chronology , and has also affected the dating of the pottery itself .
16 A graduate in sociology and education at Florence University , she has for many years contributed articles to Protestant and ecumenical newspapers and currently writes a monthly survey on television for the journal Confronti .
17 Sara Campbell , curator of the Norton Simon Museum , which owns the complete modèle set of sculptures , has for many years been tracking down all the known casts of Degas ' bronzes and plans to publish the most up-to-date , though necessarily incomplete , account of the status quo .
18 Lybke has for many years presented his artists in an international context .
19 Jibé Tribout , a Parisian now in permanent voluntary exile in Pertuis , a small village just outside Aix-en-Provence , has for many years been one of the world 's leading sport climbers , without ever quite reaching the levels of public acclaim accorded to contemporaries such as Patrick Edlinger and Catherine Destivelle .
20 While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years .
21 At the NOTTINGHAM PLAYHOUSE , stimulating repertoire enjoys international acclaim and the ALBERT HALL has for many years been a popular venue for classical concerts .
22 Experience in the United States of America , where legislative history has for many years been much more generally admissible than I am now suggesting , shows how important it is to maintain strict control over the use of such material .
23 What importance do you attach , Mrs , to the observation of the District Council in relation to their erm District Development Plan which has for many years been used for development control , of the following text , which you quote in your paragraph three point six ?
24 Adult education , on the other hand , has for many years suffered from a kind of amateurish approach — part of its charm no doubt .
25 In the preface to his Hortus Britanno-Americanus ( written in 1749 but not published until 1763 ) Mark Catesby [ q.v. ] , the pioneer naturalist of the south-eastern states of America , said that ‘ Mr. Gray at Fulham has for many years made it his business to raise and cultivate the plants of America ( from whence he has annually fresh supplies ) in order to furnish the curious with what they want …
26 She is an APRS member and has for many years been a life member of other heritage and conservation bodies .
27 The United Kingdom has for many years been the preferred location for United States investment in Europe .
28 As the Potato Marketing Board has for many years worked successfully for the benefit of processors , consumers and producers , does he agree that any proposals to scrap the PMB should be strongly resisted ?
29 The CNAA , the body which has for many years awarded degrees in polytechnics , will cease operation in September 1992 and will be dissolved in March 1993 .
30 HCIMA has for many years been active in accrediting hotel and catering programmes , both in Europe and around the world .
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