Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those classed as ‘ other homes ’ included convalescent homes , a rehabilitation centre , an assessment centre , a holiday home for the disabled and rest homes which may in practice have been homes for older people ( the classification was made on the basis of the information given by the person interviewed ) . |
| 2 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 3 | ‘ What a pleasure it has been , and an honour to have been MP for Winchester for 13 years , ’ he said , thanking those who had supported him in the past year . |
| 4 | Mr Heddle had been MP for Mid Staffordshire since 1983 , with a majority of 14,654 in 1987 . |
| 5 | Petite Forlarty which is a castle in the middle , just on the outskirts of Florence er and e for some reason I mean the c the Italians have been colourists for yonks . |
| 6 | He and Botham have been friends for 20 years , and Chris says : ‘ He is a walking miracle . |
| 7 | Our families have been friends for years . ’ |
| 8 | These are almost always the same men , the ones who own the guns and the best-trained dogs , whose families have been hunters for years , passing their knowledge and experience down through the generations until it 's almost in the blood . |
| 9 | Hunter is transferring from Inchcolm Abbey in the Firth of Forth , where he and his wife Rae have been custodians for the last 10 years . |
| 10 | A former teacher , journalist and Euro-MP , Mrs Clwyd has been MP for Cynon Valley , Mid-Glamorgan , since a by-election in 1984 , when she became the first woman to represent a South Wales mining valley . |
| 11 | Gore , who had made an impressive if unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 , was the product of a patrician southern family , his father having been Senator for Tennessee . |
| 12 | The margin between the two rates had been zero for several weeks , reflecting the strength of the franc . |
| 13 | She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years . |
| 14 | ‘ Con Gallagher and Una have been lovers for about a year now . ’ |
| 15 | But the main items of most concern have been grants for surface cultivation ( ploughing and rotovation ) , drainage and fertilisers , whether paid under Development Plans or as one-off capital aids ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 16 | Mr Heseltine who 's a millionaire has been MP for Henley since 1974 . |
| 17 | J. R. Clynes , the new Lord Privy Seal , wrote picturesquely of ‘ the strange turn in Fortune 's wheel which had brought MacDonald the starveling clerk , Thomas the engine driver , Henderson the foundry labourer and Clynes the mill-hand , to this pinnacle beside the man whose forebears had been Kings for so many splendid generations . |
| 18 | His ancestors had been MPs for Liverpool on and off since 1307 , and his father served in the Parliament of 1625 , besides being sheriff of Lancashire in 1620 . |
| 19 | Chris has been Secretary for Trades Council for ten years , he 's a W E A tutor , that 's his er profession , he 's an organizer , and he organizes courses throughout Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . |
| 20 | Peter Scudamore has been king for the last seven seasons … but now its Richard Dunwoody 's turn to lead the race … he 's the best they say … the finest horseman … they all want him to win … suddenly the pressure 's on |
| 21 | The Federal Assembly ( Bundesversammlung ) on Dec. 9 elected Adolf Ogi and Otto Stich as President and Vice-President for 1993 respectively ( Ogi had been Vice-President for 1992 ) . |
| 22 | In a famous essay , H. J. Laski recorded that between 1832 and 1906 , out of 139 judges appointed , 80 were Members of the House of Commons at the time of their nomination and 11 others had been candidates for Parliament ; that , of the 80 , 63 were appointed by their own party while in office ; and 33 of them had been either Attorney-General or Solicitor-General . |
| 23 | His brother has been king for more than three years . |
| 24 | , Peter ( 1806–1883 ) , industrial chemist and alum manufacturer , was born 19 February 1806 in Brechin , Forfarshire , Scotland , the son of a hand-loom weaver of Brechin , and his wife , whose family had been farmers for generations . |
| 25 | The weather had been kind for Boz 's wedding but it was less so for Tom and Dolly . |