Example sentences of "it has been [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It has been playing for more than a year at the group 's Palace Theatre in Manchester , and the Playhouse has taken more than £1 million in advance bookings for it since the box office opened last week . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | ‘ Gran Reserva ’ indicates it has been aged for seven years . |
| 34 | In the past , it has been criticised for poor graphics . |
| 35 | In recent months , it has been blamed for freak storms in Pacific islands and on the Californian coast , and flooding in Peru . |
| 36 | We knew of its existence from a photograph taken in the 1850s , but it has been missing for 150 years . |
| 37 | We assume that it is enough that the new way will prove better than the old way once it has been tried for some time . |