Example sentences of "[been] on the [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been on the roads for days and they still retained their winter mire , despite the advent of finer spring weather . |
| 2 | Arthur Skyrne was 59 and had been on the dole for ten years when he joined Roseberry ; now he is site safety officer and one of the directors of the company . |
| 3 | There are now almost 50,000 people in the region who have been on the dole for more than a year . |
| 4 | Howard , from Liverpool , has an England record of 20 Tests , officiated in both World Cups and has been on the panel for nine years . |
| 5 | ‘ Reparations has been on the agenda for almost every generation of black Americans , ’ said Mr Walter Fauntroy , the District of Columbia 's representative in Congress . |
| 6 | Tory Derek Lamberth said closure plans had been on the agenda for two years . |
| 7 | Does the Minister recognise that the question of loan sharks has been on the agenda for the past 12 years , but that nothing positive has occurred other than the report to which he referred ? |
| 8 | The two main issues thought to have been on the agenda for Li 's visit were South Korea 's intention to apply for separate membership of the UN ( North Korea favoured the two Korean states sharing a single UN seat ) , and the growing pressure for the North Korean government to allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities , an issue at the heart of the current normalization talks between North Korea and Japan [ see below ] . |
| 9 | It 's all speculation at present , however Britain is only one of two countries in the European Community that does n't levy VAT on newspapers and the subject has been on the agenda for some time . |
| 10 | From everything she says , it 's clear this gilgul 's been on the scene for quite a while — there is no way she could have learned what she 's learned , cleaned up her act and become who she is now if the only time she 's had to do it in was the brief interval between our confrontation at the Mephistco stand and her appearance on the beach at Bournemouth . |
| 11 | Aside from that , Meany 's been street skating in the Greater Manchester area , Duffy 's been on the lookout for new terrain and unknown people existent in the South West , and also discovers a totally hot indoor bowl with a secret location and impeccable construction . |
| 12 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 13 | Since a success with Corydoras panda I have been on the lookout for other species of catfish to work with so I gratefully headed home with my new charges . |
| 14 | Many years ago I came across the card in the Doll Museum in Wrexham and I 've been on the lookout for it every since . ’ |
| 15 | We there 's Don and myself two individuals who have been on the course for incident training with Fire Brigade . |
| 16 | She had been on the platform for my speech but used distinctive words of her own . |
| 17 | She 'd been on the floor for nearly every dance , and was having a whale of a time . |
| 18 | Margot Farnham : I 'm involved in the Trouble and Strife collective which is a radical feminist British journal , it 's our fifth birthday issue , we 've been going since 1983 and I 've been on the collective for two years . |
| 19 | The official definition of long-term unemployment is more than twelve months without work , although employment training , which is designed for the long term unemployed , requires entrants to have been on the register for more than six months . |
| 20 | As the shop door closed behind her , Miss Belle , speaking breathlessly as if she had been running , said , ‘ We 've been on the look-out for you . |
| 21 | She started ‘ working ’ at the age of 14 and has been on the streets for five years . |
| 22 | Having been on the run for nearly four years , Rudi had grown from an early teenager into a young adult . |
| 23 | He had been on the run for ten years . |
| 24 | A prisoner who 's been on the run for more than six months has been recaptured . |
| 25 | The Marquess of Blandford is back in prison tonight , charged with assualting two police officers who were trying to arrest him after he 'd been on the run for four days . |
| 26 | Armed police have recaptured a prisoner who 's been on the run for five days after hijacking a taxi and holding a prison officer at knifepoint . |
| 27 | Cedric Downes had himself been on the phone for about five minutes , trying frustratedly to contact British Rail about times of trains to London that day ; yet he could have had little notion of the irrational and frenetic impatience of the man who was trying to contact him ; a man who was betweenwhiles cursing the incompetence of British Telecom and bemoaning the cussedness of the Universe in general . |
| 28 | Colonel Wilkinson , who died in October 1900 , had been on the Board for 22 years . |
| 29 | How much more able to make that judgement were those colleagues who had already been on the board for seven years or more ? ’ |
| 30 | Hazel and his companions had been on the jump for nearly two days . |