Example sentences of "[pers pn] has been [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she always wanted to be a writer , the theatre has claimed a lot of her energy ( she has been nominated for an Emmy and a Tony award ) . |
| 2 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 3 | ‘ He has been calling for a … ’ he glanced importantly at his notebook ‘ … |
| 4 | The vicar calls for silence for the ‘ Lord Mayor ’ , who makes a short speech declaring he has been elected for a year and a day . |
| 5 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 6 | He has been seconded for a year , and his beat is construction , property and hotels . |
| 7 | By the exhausted mechanical sound of it he has been sobbing for a long time . |
| 8 | If he has been arrested for an arrestable offence , there may also be a power to search his home under section 18 . |
| 9 | He has been booked for a series . |
| 10 | ‘ You can imagine what a spell in the Army would have meant for someone who values his fingers as a pianist , so when I came back home I got in touch with some people and now he has been booked for a number of festivals , ’ Alan tells me . |
| 11 | Four times it has been birdied for a one-stroke victory , the most impressive being Sandy Lyle 's wonderful second shot from sand in 1988 . |
| 12 | As an example of discourse analysis data , it has been selected for a particular purpose . |
| 13 | They face another five years in opposition and Labour will have another inquest into why it has been rejected for a fourth time . |
| 14 | From the statement " It has been raining for an hour in Chicago " , for example , we are able to infer , using our knowledge of the real world , that the streets of Chicago are wet . |
| 15 | It has been operating for a year now , with the aim of showing researchers both the benefits of massively parallel computers and how to use them . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | It has been used for a wide variety of projects so far . |
| 18 | It has been known for a tough roadman-sprinter to control the race in these big hills , not to lose much time on the Ballon , then rejoin the leading group , dominate them on the long downhill run into Mulhouse and win the stage . |
| 19 | It has been known for a woman going into labour to suddenly perceive the connection between herself , her mother , mother 's mother , all the mothers of her line stretching back to the beginnings of time , and all the daughters that will follow after . |
| 20 | It has been known for a long time , and has led to the more modern practice called ‘ foliar feeding ’ , in which the purpose is not so much to correct deficiencies , but to encourage a boost in performance , yield and so on by spraying major element solutions on to the leaves in the same way . |
| 21 | It has been known for a long time that , partly due to their immense size , elephants can hear much lower sounds than we can . |