Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] have [been] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm Listeners will probably know that there has been for many years what 's called the Schools Council , which has looked at erm curriculum matters and examination matters , and a year or so ago it was decided to discontinue the Schools Council , and to replace it by two successor committees , one the School Curriculum Development Committee , which you 've already mentioned and which I chair , and a parallel committee concerned with examinations , the School Examination , sorry the Secondary Examination Council , which is chaired by a mathematician , Sir Wilfred Cockroft . |
| 2 | Her father 's order book was better filled than it had been for years , her mother 's health seemed good , Eileen was happy in her work as a pools clerk , and Tony and Helen were happily planning their wedding . |
| 3 | It has to be said that there has been for some years within the Labour Party something of a class divide — a working-class element resentful of a middle-class takeover by lawyers and the like . |
| 4 | To be sure , one could sympathize with the sentiments of some of those penitents who refused themselves pleasures because the Emperor , saviour of mankind , could experience no pleasure whatever , locked as he had been for millennia in his prosthetic throne … |
| 5 | The luncheon table was laid as it had been for 50 Christmases , with a pyramid of polished John Standish apples from Somerset in the middle , flanked by Christmas roses and trails of ivy . |
| 6 | Broadly , we may say that industry will have to be far less rigid ; indeed much more flexible in adapting itself to change than it has been for the past twenty years . |
| 7 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 8 | The battered red car arrived at 7pm , Maria Yackle was dressed as she had been for her previous visit , but because it was rather cold , wore a jacket made of synthetic fur as well . |
| 9 | The castle walls surround the medieval town , which is still inhabited as it has been for hundreds of years . |
| 10 | 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 . |