Example sentences of "[adv] it have been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently it has been recognised for over a decade that chlorine from chlorofluorocarbons may deplete the stratospheric ozone layer . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps it 's been buried for ten years , ’ she whispered to herself . |
| 3 | Just now it has been condemned for supporting Queer City , a collection of works by ‘ noted gay writers in New York City ’ ( this phrase is Chairman Frohnmayer 's own ) . |
| 4 | So far it has been implemented for the 68000 , 88000 , R-Series and Sparc processors . |
| 5 | Well it 's been booked for three or four weeks has n't it ? |
| 6 | But it was Raynor who told her things about the Castle she did not know ; how it had been built for the first High Queen of all , and how the ancient pure magic had been woven into its walls . |
| 7 | The pose is certainly borrowed from Egypt , where it had been used for male figures for centuries . |
| 8 | The painting dates from around 1903–05 but was only rediscovered last year in New England , where it had been bought for $175 in 1905 when the artist made a trip abroad to find a new audience for his Nihonga work . |
| 9 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |
| 10 | The Master of the Armouries , curator of Britain 's historic arms and armour collection , who is hell-bent on creating just such a hybrid and abandoning the ancient Tower of London where it has been housed for centuries for a purpose-built , speculative complex in Leeds , is risking a gargantuan version of the ‘ Sporting Glory ’ fiasco , with the extra twist that if his project fails , his objects will have no home to go back to . |
| 11 | But Madame Davenant kept a clean and respectable and quiet private hotel , which is why it had been chosen for Miranda and why she liked it , on the whole . |
| 12 | They face another five years in opposition and Labour will have another inquest into why it has been rejected for a fourth time . |
| 13 | Certainly it has been argued for a discrete stimulus trained as an occasion setter that subsequently presenting it alone will not produce a loss of occasion-setting power ( e.g. Rescorla 1986 ) ( but see also Ross 1983 ; Holland and Gory 1986 ) . |