Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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1 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
2 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
3 | The humble raisin has been around for at least 2,000 years , but it has n't always been very popular — particularly in the US where novelty is all when it comes to food . |
4 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
5 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
6 | For example , one wonders if the doubts about the unity of geography are any less profound than those that afflict environmental science , but geography has been around for much longer and has developed powerful institutional , professional and curricular structures , not least in the schools . |
7 | Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time . |
8 | As the Doctor gives the conventional lore of his day , a blend of ethics and medicine : we see that we are also those ‘ deaf pillows ’ , that the masking and unmasking has been all for our sake . |
9 | Operating as Shadowfax Restaurants , the partnership has been together for a number of years , and currently has two Pizza Express outlets in Barnet and Finchley , and part ownership of a pizza restaurant in the West End of London . |
10 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
11 | The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming . |
12 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
13 | The Great Britain half-back has been out for a month with strained stomach muscles . |
14 | You see , some girl 's been out for a drink , or to a disco , met a fella , the fella invites her back , she goes , and things go a bit further than she intended . |
15 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
16 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
17 | ‘ The fishery has been here for over 400 years , so we want to make sure we maintain it for future generations , ’ said Mr Horne . |
18 | The record has been out for a couple of years , and it 's called ‘ Electric Counterpoint ’ . |
19 | However the very fact that the product has been around for so long and is so well established in the corporate market place that makes it a worth taking seriously . |
20 | ‘ Well , my husband 's been away for a while . |
21 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
22 | ‘ When a person has been underground for so many years it 's a new lease of life ’ ; ‘ it 's just a grand feeling . ’ |
23 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
24 | The concept has been around for at least 30 years ; the American Hospital Supply Corporation was receiving electronic purchase orders from the hospitals it supplied in the early 1960s . |
25 | The strong-running Kiwi has been out for around five weeks after a trapped nerve in his back . |
26 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |
27 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
28 | ‘ This outfit has been together for almost three years , everyone knows each other , we all get on and there 's no prima donnas etime . ’ |
29 | ‘ Or maybe she just learned from a more rational neighbour that the real Delia has been abroad for six months . |
30 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |