Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] been [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This unique Number 4850158 has been selected especially for you in the latest by invitation-only Hospital Plan Cash Match Prize Draw . |
| 2 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 3 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 4 | Thus conservation has become a much more difficult and demanding area , but this has been made up for by an improvement in the scientific knowledge now available to the conservator . |
| 5 | Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible . |
| 6 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 7 | The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years . |
| 8 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 9 | I 'm actually concerned that if we , did anybody know about this issue earlier on because I think this has been going on for quite some time erm probably over the last two years and if anyone did know then why did n't they address it before and if anyone did n't know , why not ? |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 11 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 12 | However , this has been used mainly for those whose crimes would not have sent them to prison anyway . |
| 13 | But most sociologists , and now many social anthropologists also , are dealing with complex literate societies in which the accumulation of documents of one sort or another has been going on for centuries . |
| 14 | For God 's sake , this had been going on for years , with animals making a noise — surely this is what country life is all about and it would be a sad day if there were no noises from the farms or from the back gardens of our cottages . |
| 15 | The English had been fishing there for over a century , and had been settled for over fifty years , so they had a strong position for making the French give up any claims to settle there . |
| 16 | Some have been used informally for many years , subjective assessments such as those made by parents , teachers , and librarians . |
| 17 | Since the 1971 Act , most immigrants have needed work permits and these have been granted mostly for work in those industries like the health service and hotels , where there is a shortage of domestic workers . |
| 18 | These have been taken down for conservation and it is hoped to replace them with copies . |
| 19 | Written application had been made in advance , and , except for four theses on loan , all had been collected together for this study either within the thesis area or in the thesis collection area of the Stack , to which access was permitted on this occasion . |
| 20 | Many had been decaying steadily for years : their owners had no use for them and could not imagine that anyone else would . |
| 21 | All have been followed up for at least two years . |
| 22 | All have been followed up for at least 5 years . |
| 23 | The field artillery weapons with which the combatants entered the war in 1914 had been designed also for use in short-range battles . |
| 24 | DHA 1 has been waiting patiently for a new DGH for 25 years . |
| 25 | The deaf children of the Molfetta Deaf School in Trani were proud to have been singled out for a visit by the Princess |
| 26 | Twenty boreholes were logged as part of the BGS Core mapping programme , of which fifteen had been drilled specifically for the programme , and five were pre-existing water-supply boreholes made available to BGS . |
| 27 | On the earlier date , Bob Spence bought much-neglected Swordfish HS554 that had been standing outside for 22 years . |
| 28 | In its vast project to kick the mainframe habit and move to Unix-based client-server systems , Mead Corp 's database operator Mead Data Central Inc is spreading its favours around , and while some Unix business has gone to Hewlett-Packard Co , NCR Corp is also in there as a so-called strategic technology partner ( presumably its non-strategic technology partners are the people that supply the brooms they sweep the floor with ) as Mead moves existing applications off mainframes to a client-server environment : the two have been working together for the past year on projects to re-engineer access to the widely-used Lexis and Nexis on-line information services and create a new internal information system infrastructure and campus-wide network , and Mead is using NCR System 3000 symmetric multiprocessors and AT&T Co and NCR network products . |
| 29 | When I told Flynn of this , he said , ‘ Oh , that 's been going on for centuries , did you not know ? ’ |
| 30 | Well some of these national conflicts have been artificially created by the Soviet State , but of course some of them have n't like the Azerbaijan Armenian Border conflict , that 's been going on for centuries , it was existed before the Soviet and it 's gon na go on existing after it . |