Example sentences of "it has been [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it has been grown here for more than a century , the low-growing variety A. dioicus Kneiffii is , surprisingly , less well known . |
| 2 | Ideally , the EC Commission would step in with a way to prevent the disruption of trade ; but it has been trying unsuccessfully for many months to steer a directive on packaging waste through the council of ministers . |
| 3 | It has been used effectively for example in destroying odours from maggot farms which had caused a nuisance over a wide area , for more than twenty years and not even a tall chimney was necessary to remove the resultant exhaust gases . |
| 4 | It was feared the collection , offered for sale by Lord Brownlow , would go abroad , but it has been snapped up for £220,000 by Lincolnshire County Council , backed by the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Victoria & Albert Museum . |
| 5 | What is more , it has been taken up for use in other situations , so that J.C . |
| 6 | It has been taken apart for restoration and can be seen next year at Hildesheim during the celebration of the thousandth anniversary of the enthronement of St Bernward as bishop . |
| 7 | The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up . |
| 8 | It has been designed especially for students with a different educational background from those entering the degree programme . |
| 9 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 10 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 12 | Section 27(2) ( a ) permits the court or the arbitrator a discretion to ignore the governing law clause if it appears that it has been included only for the purpose of evading the provisions of the UCTA . |