Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [verb] for many " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been meaning for many weeks now to pass on 's French address , which filtered through to us in January — but of course you may already have had it from or heard from Janet yourself . |
| 2 | I have been involved for many years with the channel tunnel project as a whole and its associated terminal at King 's Cross . |
| 3 | We 've also included in there , on item twelve , a net bill item , but does need to be recognized as an addition to your total spending , and that is , you 've been involved for many years with the health authority in arranging for the discharge of people from long-stay hospitals , and their absorption into the community , and each of these are a provider of many services , and daycare services to those particular individuals . |
| 4 | Also , we have been calling for many years for legislation to get rid of the offshore tax havens of the sort that Lord Duncan-Sandys ploughed money into from Lonrho about 1970 . |
| 5 | We are fighting to trade freely and openly within the law , as we have been doing for many years . |
| 6 | He , too , married a girl of his own milieu ; they 've been separated for many years . |
| 7 | they 've been done for many years |
| 8 | To judge by the clutter of bottles , glasses , and over-filled ashtrays , and the brooding , weary faces , they had been debating for many hours . |
| 9 | She had brought glasses and dishes from home , she said ; they had been boxed for many years too long . |
| 10 | They had been provided for many years by the YWCA , and other urban based and normally middle class-run charitable societies dispensing relief and assistance . |
| 11 | Although they have been known for many years their evolutionary position is still hotly debated . |
| 12 | They have been used for many years as propellants in aerosols , in the production of some foam packaging and as coolants in refrigerators . |
| 13 | Thus , a Keeper of Italian Painting would have responsibility for the Italian drawings , thereby not only linking their administration and scholarly maintenance but also bringing drawing into the direct relationship with painting which Clifford says he has been advocating for many years . |
| 14 | This approach , a very recent development for credit in this country ( though of course it has been accepted for many years as the basis of car insurance ratings ) , started in America . |
| 15 | Let us begin by trying to understand the rationale for the system ; after all , it has been used for many years and must presumably have had some point to it . |
| 16 | It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis . |
| 17 | These are in addition to applications in the detergents field , in which it has been used for many years . |
| 18 | It has been known for many years that damage to the left hemisphere is more likely to affect language ability than damage to the right , suggesting that the left hemisphere is very important for language . |
| 19 | For example , it is still commonplace in cartoons to show cavemen and dinosaurs together , despite the fact that it has been known for many years that dinosaurs were extinct long before the evolution of ‘ cavemen ’ . |
| 20 | It has been known for many years that rich clusters contain a lot of gas and dark matter , but Ponman and Bertram 's result shows that these features apply more generally . |
| 21 | It has been known for many years that neurons , like other cells , can be maintained alive and well under such conditions for periods of many days or even weeks , provided they are kept warm , aerated and well fed with glucose and other essential molecules . |
| 22 | It has been known for many years that recycling used materials helps make great savings , but it was not until recently that it was realised how much good that it could do for the environment . |
| 23 | It has been occurring for many years and has been embodied in legislation such as the Housing Acts of 1935 and 1957 , although numbers of sales have fluctuated considerably according to the political complexions of the government of the day . |
| 24 | The garden city lobby alleged that the vested interests of London had worked against a decentralist approach , for which it had been striving for many years , and F.J. Osborn acknowledged in correspondence with Lewis Mumford that the Plan was a bitter disappointment to him and the Town and Country Planning Association ( TCPA ) : |
| 25 | It had been used for many years as a staff hostel for an Oxford Street department store . |