Example sentences of "[noun] have been [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top rated American TV programme has been beguiling children for the last 13 years . |
| 2 | An additional complication to Rugby 's future has been legal writs for damages by Mal Malik , a former Coventry and Rugby flank-forward . |
| 3 | By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two . |
| 4 | The advent of the Reagan administration , and its alliance with the powerful pro-Israeli lobby has been bad news for the UN agencies . |
| 5 | For example , Hans Dietrich Genscher has been Foreign Minister for the last 18 years . |
| 6 | She just knew that a basement room was for sitting in , a children 's ward for visiting , and railway stations had been prime targets for being bombed . |
| 7 | ‘ Innes Place had been vacant ground for a long number of years , and the planning people insisted that there never had been houses fronting on to the Donegall Road , ’ Mr Smyth explained . |
| 8 | The Ypres salient , where since 1914 the Allies had been prime targets for the German guns , had been flattened , leaving only a small salient around Passchendaele itself . |
| 9 | The Thatcher Years have been splendid ones for a goodly number of golf members throughout this Royal and Ancient land of ours . |
| 10 | The last two years have been uncertain ones for the Gloucestershire regiment . |
| 11 | Here , the manageress Giovanna has been welcoming guests for 30 years and prides herself on offering a simple , comfortable hotel and a good choice of menu . |
| 12 | She knew her sons and would bet her last pound that Geoffrey had been awake waiting for something like this . |
| 13 | Rob Wilson 's tackle shop in Brora has been welcoming anglers for more than fifty years . |
| 14 | Glenys and Neil Kinnock have been regular customers for several years and it was Glenys who had the honour of cutting the ribbon . |
| 15 | Lack of public awareness has been one reason for the spread of the killer disease . |
| 16 | In recent years , by far the most important item has been individual demands for back payment of overtime earnings following court decisions on the method of calculating the hourly overtime rate . |
| 17 | THE STRIKE at Britain 's waterworks has been good news for a sheltered workshop in Watford . |
| 18 | Excessive schedule length has been one reason for the use of the faceted approach in updating major schemes . |
| 19 | In her article , she explained that Major had been Prime Minister for only 17 months . |
| 20 | This might on the one hand have been positive pressure for improvement ; it could equally have been a move to prevent closure . |
| 21 | Personal opinions had been modern luxuries for the leaders . |
| 22 | This year has been hard work for us , and for our trainees , some of whom have been away from formal education for some time . |
| 23 | suggested in Ex parte Benson ( No. 2 ) , The Times , 21 November 1988 , the decision in Handscomb had been that detention for a period equivalent to a determinate sentence of 27 years exceeded by such a wide margin any determinate sentence passed in recent years for the offence of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility , and was thus in the absence of reasons irrational , I would not disagree . |
| 24 | Horses have been favourite subjects for artists from time immemorial-how lovingly is the horse depicted in Rembrandt 's The Polish Rider-but the artist who paid equal attention to dancers and horses was Degas ; he understood the special elegance of the way in which they both moved . |
| 25 | Exmoor offers unrivalled opportunities to unwind — its dramatic scenery , quiet village centres and small towns have been welcoming visitors for centuries . |
| 26 | GLASTONBURY is dominated by the dramatic and mysterious Glastonbury Tor , which towers above the flat landscape of the Somerset Levels , where peat digging and withy growing for basketmaking have been traditional occupations for generations . |
| 27 | Norman Brackley 's family have been growing Sweetpeas for 4 generations . |
| 28 | Injuries and fitness have been topical issues for some time now . |