Example sentences of "[noun sg] has be [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 2 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 3 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
| 5 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 6 | Curiously , one of the first applications of the JPEG standard has been not for still images but for motion video . |
| 7 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
| 8 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 9 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 10 | The same family has closed it 's delicatessen which has now become an art shop and the butcher whose family has been here for 176 years , closes this weekend . |
| 11 | The cricket pitch has been there for thirty five years . |
| 12 | The carpet has been there for three years and is still in good condition — the only signs of wear are the marks left by ‘ wee Lachie ’ , the Stewarts ' three-year-old son . |
| 13 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 14 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |