Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [been] [adv prt] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 7 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 8 | The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming . |
| 9 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 10 | The Great Britain half-back has been out for a month with strained stomach muscles . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
| 13 | The record has been out for a couple of years , and it 's called ‘ Electric Counterpoint ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The strong-running Kiwi has been out for around five weeks after a trapped nerve in his back . |
| 18 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |
| 19 | In any case , the phobia had been around for so long that one extra week would not really make any difference . |
| 20 | Modern man has been around for 4 hours . |
| 21 | The journalist spends time on the story and then discovers that the subject has been around for years . |
| 22 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 23 | Homoeopathy has been around for nearly two hundred years . |
| 24 | you see , if you put a line it costs you about a hundred a thirty quid now I think , but according to what they tell me , once a line has been in for a year if you put a line in , you 've got to pay the first year , its got ta be in for a year , if you have it taken out before the year , you 'll still be due for the rental on it |
| 25 | FX has been out for a while first on Sun Sparc 's and Hewett-Packard Co 9000/400s last December , then on DECstation 5000s and HP 700s in January and finally on IBM 6000s in July . |
| 26 | Road pricing has been up for discussion for some time as a possible way of alleviating the high levels of traffic congestion in many city centres . |
| 27 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 28 | So the Stenness Hotel has been up for a while then . |
| 29 | The idea has been around for 80 years . |
| 30 | The idea has been around for ages , of course — people using two thin woollen sweaters rather than one thick . |