Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [det] [noun pl] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She keeps busy with local activities and has been for many years editor of her church magazine . |
| 2 | Harrowby was an eminent politician , who had been for many years MP for Liverpool ; his scientific interests were in geography and statistics . |
| 3 | If we can suspend the rigidity of the traditional comparisons , we can realise that Matisse and Picasso are in many respects part of the same enterprise . |
| 4 | However , both are in some ways representative of towpaths generally in that ( a ) these canals pass through some areas of concentrated population — Scotland 's Central Belt having a total of over two million , and these canals pass right through it — and ( b ) parts of the towpaths are urban and others completely rural . |
| 5 | For example , while Cantwell and Baker ( 1987 ) imply that diagnosis is in some senses indicative of aetiology , Ingram ( 1976 ) restricts his use of the term to the description of speech and language difficulties using a particular theoretical framework . |
| 6 | He determined the fossils that were the key to the rock succession in the Southern Uplands , was for many years palaeontologist to the Scottish branch of the Geological Survey , and late in life wrote an important memoir on Carboniferous crustacea , a group that had fascinated him since he had searched rock pools for crabs with his father . |
| 7 | They had three daughters and one son , Matthew , who followed his father 's profession and was for many years superintendent of the LNER locomotive depot at Neasden , London . |
| 8 | Martin was for some years tutor to the MacLeods of Skye , and had also been at one time a scholar at Leiden University in the Netherlands . |