Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 2 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 3 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 4 | Pension funds have been around for a century or more , but their modern form was set in 1950 when Charles Wilson , then president of General Motors , set up a fund for his workers . |
| 5 | The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming . |
| 6 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 7 | The Great Britain half-back has been out for a month with strained stomach muscles . |
| 8 | The party of young Australians had been out for a meal , and had stopped to take photographs , when Roermond 's market square echoed to gunfire . |
| 9 | 3D spreadsheets have been around for a while , but have tended to be rather cumbersome to use . |
| 10 | You see , some girl 's been out for a drink , or to a disco , met a fella , the fella invites her back , she goes , and things go a bit further than she intended . |
| 11 | The record has been out for a couple of years , and it 's called ‘ Electric Counterpoint ’ . |
| 12 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |
| 13 | Secondly , a while ago I mentioned that a guy called Alan Byrne had been over for a trial , in Elland Road , from Shamrock Rovers in Dublin . |
| 14 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 15 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 16 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 17 | She and Lewis had been out for a meal the night before . |
| 18 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 19 | you see , if you put a line it costs you about a hundred a thirty quid now I think , but according to what they tell me , once a line has been in for a year if you put a line in , you 've got to pay the first year , its got ta be in for a year , if you have it taken out before the year , you 'll still be due for the rental on it |
| 20 | FX has been out for a while first on Sun Sparc 's and Hewett-Packard Co 9000/400s last December , then on DECstation 5000s and HP 700s in January and finally on IBM 6000s in July . |
| 21 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 22 | So the Stenness Hotel has been up for a while then . |
| 23 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 24 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 25 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 26 | You forget we 've got spies , all the staff on this ward tell Jim exactly what you 've been doing er , that 's , that 's how he knew you got your hair done , can we have five pounds , she 's just had her hair permed , the day before he 's just coming in and , no they sent to the ward can we have five pounds please your mum 's been out for the day and she 's had her lunch out you cost him a fortune and you say you 've never been anywhere |