Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [been] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hang on , wait a minute , er August , September , January , February , March I 've been single for nine months . |
| 2 | ‘ When she was writing Rebecca she had been married for about four years , had one child and during the writing of the book , had her second child . |
| 3 | The motif of the yoke was originally the emblem of Isabella of Castile , Mariana 's distant predecessor , who had been responsible for sending Columbus on his first transatlantic voyage in 1492 ; in other words she had been responsible for initiating the whole colonial process ( Fig. 12 ) . |
| 4 | When he returned to the Gold Coast he had been absent for 12 years : he had departed far too young to have made any mark . |
| 5 | As they listened and watched the news from their former homeland it has been distressing for the five native speakers and difficult to maintain their professional distance from events . |
| 6 | For almost two months he 'd been worried for his son . |
| 7 | Hazel joined the Company in March 1970 and after a few months took over the role of transport manager , in which capacity she has been responsible for keeping the Company on the move ever since . |
| 8 | On admission she had been anuric for 24 h ( haemoglobin 4.4 g/dL , potassium 4.1 mmol/L , creatinine 937 mmol/L , urea 119 mmol/L , lactic dehydrogenase 3327 IU/L , platelets 71×10/L ) . |
| 9 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 10 | For the past two years she has been responsible for the rights department of Hachette 's children 's book imprints in Paris . |
| 11 | Not much has been made of this migration , some ethnic tension apart , and even less of the fact that in the years since the second world war it has been essential for western European economic life . |
| 12 | Over the years it has been customary for the chairman to be re-elected for a second year . |
| 13 | An expert on explosives he had been responsible for the design and building of this 4½ tons charge . |
| 14 | However , it was clear from the Special Commissioner 's decision that he had looked at all the evidence and asked himself whether in view of that evidence it had been reasonable for the inspector to form the view he had taken . |
| 15 | Over the past decade it has been necessary for the Fund to play a more expanded role , principally because of the large current account imbalances identified in Table 9.2 . |
| 16 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 17 | In this role he has been responsible for LASMO 'S operated and non-operated North Sea projects . |
| 18 | In the past it has been compulsory for visiting yachtsmen to call on VHF Ch 16 for a pilot to guide them in , but thankfully this practice has now been abandoned in Vyborg . |
| 19 | In the past it has been difficult for them to have long runs in the team . ’ |
| 20 | In London , just before the war , almost no one had heard of Paul Klee , although in Germany he had been famous for some years . |
| 21 | He said : ’ I 'm aware that what we 're saying may be used but we do believe it is the most energising thing that has happened in my 21 years as a GP It has been good for care , public health and management . ’ |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | For this reason I have been convinced for some months that interest rates are too high and that they should start to be reduced at once . |
| 24 | As two young married couples they had been close for a time when they lived near Stoke , although Carole had not got on at all well with Amaranth . |
| 25 | Davide sighed ; with Tommaso Talvi he had been hungry for experience , but now , he wondered what had impelled him then to want so much , everything , travel , influence , money , work , before he had ever touched a woman ; when now he sang arias of extreme emotion , when he grieved and sobbed his passion in La Forza and Boccanegra and La Traviata , he thought of young men in the future bursting their hearts for his daughters . |
| 26 | For National Certificate modules it has been possible for some time to approve alternative outcomes , under certain circumstances , for students with special needs of all kinds . |
| 27 | As Treasurer he had been responsible for the most sweeping economic reforms ever undertaken in Australia , including floating the dollar and deregulating the financial system . |
| 28 | If he was indeed the highwayman who had terrorised the area for the past year he had been responsible for the murders of a number of men and women already . |
| 29 | ‘ We always wanted to sponsor a guide dog and by the time you 've been married for 50 years you 've got everything you need and there 's no point in getting presents you do n't really need , ’ said Mr Lea . |
| 30 | When asked why she allowed the computer so to dominate in this way , she replied ‘ It 's the first time they have been quiet for a whole week ! ’ , reflecting the second cause in the list above . |