Example sentences of "[been] [adj] for [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the end of Athens ' archaic war with Eleusis it would have been absurd for any deme of Attica to think of rivalling Athens . |
| 2 | Lady Street had returned to what must have been normal for any morning at this time ; the delivery vans had gone , there was sporadic traffic in the one-way street , and people had no time to stand about gawping at the bookshop though they slowed their pace in passing and tried to look in without appearing to do so . |
| 3 | Owen had been conscious for some time of growing movement in the courtyard below . |
| 4 | If a property is insufficiently furnished for full habitation , it may also have been unoccupied for some length of time . |
| 5 | In practice , this mistake has been responsible for much confusion in the discussion of syntactic possibilities and their means of expression . |
| 6 | The newcomers , of course , have not been responsible for this loss of rural autonomy — indeed , they have been equally affected by the growing remoteness of decision-making . |
| 7 | the reduction of contracting disciplines , as measured by the relative size of the literature , and as has been evident for some time in religion and philosophy ; and |
| 8 | So far as education is concerned , it is known that the government has been concerned for some time about an alleged willingness on the part of some teachers to bring the question of homosexuality out into the open in a way that seeks to normalise it as a form of human relationship . |
| 9 | Most current work concentrates on child sexual abuse , and SSMH has been concerned for some time about the vulnerability of adults with learning disabilities . |
| 10 | The national park has been concerned for some time about the volume of heavy lorries using roads through the park . |
| 11 | From the head 's point of view , the library had been underfunded for some time with an annual capitation of some £860 , supplemented ( not always willingly ) by a 5% levy on the capitation of each department . |
| 12 | Although we have been playing teams which have been going through crap periods , I think this has worked against us as all the opposition players and fans etc have been desperate for some sort of result . |
| 13 | Local people there have been worried for some time about safety factors which affect the tunnel . |
| 14 | The Consorzio Venezia Nuova has already been active for some time in redesigning the network of channels in the lagoon , consolidating the barene ( patches of mud flat just above the surface of the water ) and other similar measures . |