Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] been [adj] for " in BNC.

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1 I 've not been bad for a long long time .
2 I 've always been grateful for that , that they did you know create th th this love of poetry .
3 And I 've always been mature for my age . ’
4 I 've only been operational for four months and yet already people are beginning to seek me out .
5 I sto I have n't been sick for er about a week
6 I have n't been happy for a long time but now I think I 'm going to be . ’
7 I have n't been happy for the last few months and when an old girlfriend asked me out I went along and enjoyed myself .
8 Pat served for six years on the Executive Committee ; she has also been responsible for arranging the flowers at many important functions .
9 Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ?
10 She had apparently been dead for a week .
11 We 've both been alone for such a long time I do n't honestly know whether our marriage would survive if we were together every day . ’
12 We have also been grateful for the messages of sympathy from people who did not know Paul but were moved by the manner of his death .
13 They 've both been free for years .
14 Creation was a really small label at that time and they had n't been successful for about two years , so there just was n't the money .
15 But then they had n't been alone for any time before .
16 They had probably been married for some thirty-odd years , perhaps longer .
17 They had all been dead for several days .
18 They have also been responsible for many symposia and meetings for specialists in the field of venereology .
19 a letter from a grant awarding authority confirming eligibility for a mandatory award ( students not receiving an award , e.g. those repeating a year , should provide evidence that they have previously been eligible for an award ) ;
20 Does the Foreign Secretary agree that an international conference as proposed simply would not succeed unless Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities admit that they have both been responsible for atrocities and extremism ?
21 None of your so-called friends look as if they have exactly been renowned for their brains , do they ? ’
22 88open has decided to offer its system and application compatibility test suites — ITS/88 , AVS/88 and ACT/88 — to industry consortia and companies : although to date they have only been available for Motorola Inc 88000 RISC based systems , interested parties would presumably customise the sets for other architectures .
23 In the past 25 years he has also been responsible for the construction of the mortality tables produced by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau for use by the life offices and has also taken an active part in the development of a new method of analysing sickness insurance statistics .
24 For all this he has ever been grateful for his uncles , careful considerations — as his father 's executors — of his family , and especially of their kindness towards him personally .
25 Although plastic pipe has been widely used for wastes and drains , until recently it has not been suitable for hot water .
26 It has not been possible for the American navy to leave behind the assets that it had developed there , but my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence will certainly take note of the point that the hon. Lady raised about Ministry of Defence assets in the area .
27 If , because of confidentiality or for other reasons , it has not been possible for the seller to make all enquiries that it otherwise would , the seller would be well advised to stipulate in the contract or disclosure letter what enquiries have been made .
28 At dusk , it has not been unknown for us to traipse round the dykeside field boundaries collecting slugs , a pretty grisly business .
29 It has n't been easy for people across the country it has n't been easy for businesses and it has n't been easy for the government to do it .
30 It has n't been easy for people across the country it has n't been easy for businesses and it has n't been easy for the government to do it .
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