Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adj] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever Keith has been good for a day Mr Smith should watch a programme on the television with him . |
| 2 | According to Professor Ian Fells of Newcastle University , the technology has been available for a while . |
| 3 | Newark 's recently-completed Avro Anson C.19 VL348 has been short-listed for an award in the Scania Transport Trust Award Scheme . |
| 4 | Throughout industry this election day , a host of trade unionists are waiting with acute anxiety , nursing their hopes : a Labour victory will enable them to reassert their influence on factories throughout the land , in a manner that has been impossible for a decade . |
| 5 | At other times it has been possible for an individual to bring foreign coins or bullion to the mint and receive it back as coinage ( minus a fee ) . |
| 6 | And now would you believe it 's the other Notts player who had n't scored this season , has been desperate for a goal , Paul . |
| 7 | Although it has been operational for a while , it was only recently that Ski survey visited this slope , to attend a Peter Lightfoot ski course . |
| 8 | So do I. To anyone capable of seeing beyond a county bank balance , it has been clear for a number of years that there is too much limited-overs cricket played by the counties and that the present mix of three and four-day Championship games is not only confusing , especially now that they start on different days of the week , but also unnecessarily exhausting for all involved . |
| 9 | ‘ English football has been dead for a decade now , ’ he added . |
| 10 | He wondered whether he 'd been asleep for a while , or just deep in thought . |
| 11 | Children were fascinated by the ducks and it would have been easy for a toddler to slip through the fence , leaving mum stranded on the other side . |
| 12 | It can not have been easy for a man in his fifties to start afresh as an instrument-maker in London . |
| 13 | It can not have been easy for an ordinand or a curate to stand up to contemptuous persiflage about his religion from one of the ablest minds of the generation who happened to be his own brother . |
| 14 | Without this control it would have been possible for a Committee with a bondholding minority to make bad decisions to the cost of the Bondholders . |
| 15 | Under these circumstances , it would have been possible for a ship sailing south from Thera to dock at Dia , unload and set sail again for destinations to the east or west . |
| 16 | In certain circumstances it might have been preferable for a beneficiary to have a real action , in which case he would press for interpretation as a legacy . |
| 17 | In earlier days , even that formality might not have been necessary for a contract . |
| 18 | Even so , it would have been impossible for an insect to grow much larger , say to have a girth more than a quarter of an inch in diameter . |
| 19 | the cabin is smart and modern , and the panel well-stocked … but we would have been grateful for an autopilot . |
| 20 | Once upon a time it would have been unthinkable for a band , especially one with such a reputation as Happy Mondays ’ , to apologise for their remarks without some sort of legal action being taken against them . |
| 21 | If we 'd lost we could have gone bottom of the table and that would have been disastrous for a club like Everton . |
| 22 | It must have been distasteful for a man whose principles were always of the very highest . |
| 23 | However , as the amending legislation does not have retrospective effect , traders who , under the High Court interpretation , would have been eligible for a repayment supplement are invited to apply for that supplement . |
| 24 | It would have been tempting for an adviser to have thought in 1968 that a solus agreement involving the exclusive purchase of petrol was of sufficiently established commercial importance to fall within that class of cases to which Lord Wilberforce said the restraint of trade doctrine would not apply . |
| 25 | There was no single set pattern of subjects , but it would have been difficult for a school to neglect totally those regarded as basic and normal . |
| 26 | Without demonstrable concern for their welfare and the active promotion of an identity of interests it would have been difficult for a party of landed and industrial power to retain authority ( for an historical survey of this see McKenzie and Silver 1968 pp 42–73 ) . |
| 27 | Steeped in ancient pomp and splendour , but loaded with post-modern wit and allusion , this semi-mystical edifice could almost have been purpose-built for an Orb photo shoot . |
| 28 | Confining ourselves to Vienna and the last few weeks alone , it seems he may also have been responsible for a couple of recent murders of prostitutes in the Altstadt . |
| 29 | Having been dormant for a while they are looking for funds to give Britain 's young people the opportunity to realise their full skiing potential . |
| 30 | Having been airborne for a while and learned that this aircraft demands a gentle touch on the engine controls , the trainee who demonstrates prudent use of reverse derives huge satisfaction from the soft-but-powerful deceleration , bringing the aircraft to a stop in 400 metres . |