Example sentences of "has [adv] [been] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 2 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 3 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
| 4 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 5 | Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work . |
| 6 | He has n't been round for a while , Andy , has he ? |
| 7 | And I wo n't spare a minute 's thought for the fact that Piers has n't been around for the entire day , and lord only knows what he 's getting up to with Nicole . |
| 8 | Well of course it 's not on , it has n't been on for weeks . |
| 9 | A reader called to say she had a postcard dated 1910 which showed the fire with a notice saying : ‘ This fire has n't been out for over 200 years . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ He has n't been out for days , ’ another boy said . |
| 11 | Mm and old Bob down the road , Bob , he has n't been in for about the same sort of time this 'll be his fourth week wo n't it ? |
| 12 | It has certainly been around for a hundred years , and it is probably the most vital of aspect of life as we know it today . |