Example sentences of "[conj] have [been] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he awoke he could not tell if he had fainted or had been asleep for hours or even days . |
| 2 | He denied that the paramilitaries had been linked to the drug traffickers or had been responsible for the massacres of campesinos attributed to them . |
| 3 | If we have recently lost sleep ( after a week of trying to sleep in the daytime , for example ) or have been awake for an unusually long time , then the amount of deep sleep is increased but it is still concentrated in the earlier part of sleep . |
| 4 | If you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long time you have two additional problems to overcome . |
| 5 | To summarize : if you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long period : |
| 6 | Now unless you 're a skinhead of the old school , or have been time-warped for twenty years , parkas are not exactly in when it comes to neat threads . |
| 7 | We are now getting close to the flanks of Akka , a seven-peaked mountain that has been visible for four or five days . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Any management training that has been available for ryokan has been almost entirely ‘ in house ’ up to now , although the whole area of hotel management training is being rethought in Japan . |
| 10 | Then the king will say to those on his right hand , ‘ You have my Father 's blessing ; come , enter and possess the kingdom that has been ready for you since the world was made . |
| 11 | With the precious metal that has been undetected for so long in the folds of these hills , disseminated through the rock in an average ratio of half an ounce to a ton of stone , the sheer volume of likely debris is worrying . |
| 12 | We shall continue to put pressure on local authorities with stock that has been empty for more than a year . |
| 13 | They reflected a concept that had been current for a number of years , that experiments in planning free zones ought to be devised ( Banham et al . , |
| 14 | It was an argument that had been simmering for two days , and it was clear he was beginning to waver . |
| 15 | The coolers had been a stumbling block , an item that had been impossible for the restoration crew to find . |
| 16 | Generally , the products were made of plane/sycamore wood that had been seasoned for about 6 months . |
| 17 | But there was humour in her tone , and a sparkle in her lovely eyes , and the mouth that had been unhappy for so long now curved in a smile . |
| 18 | His great oak coffin that had been ready for him for years was set up like a cupboard at the head of the bier , fresh lined with red and gold damask , its silver handles polished bright . |
| 19 | He built his shed which , made as it was of old floorboards from a couple of hovels that had been empty for years , resembled a shack . |
| 20 | The trend towards equality of attainment is especially marked in schools that have been comprehensive for a long time . |
| 21 | My company has a large number of creditors in its balance sheet that have been outstanding for between two and four years . |
| 22 | Because I also do a fair bit of crochet and these cones ( white ) are excellent for the crochet collars that have been fashionable for a couple of years . |
| 23 | I WAS so pleased to read that people are reverting to real Christmas trees instead of the ghastly , glittering artificial things that have been popular for so long . |
| 24 | Suppressed maternalism it may be , but her passion shines through and she can recall in detail some animals , particularly dogs , that have been dead for half a century and some that did n't even belong to her . |
| 25 | Meanwhile Dennis Peck , the erstwhile president of Interactive Systems Corp and the man who presided over the sale of half of it to SunSoft Inc , has joined Sequent Computer Systems Inc as senior vice president of marketing , a position that 's been open for over a year . |
| 26 | And finally , a family-run clothes shop that 's been open for more than a hundred years is closing down because there 's no one left to look after it . |
| 27 | The man accused of murdering an Open University lecturer was taken ill and has been absent for most of the second day of his trial . |
| 28 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Petterson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Pettersson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways … ’ |
| 30 | He has attempted to come off on several occasions and at the time of interview was undergoing methadone withdrawal and has been heroin-free for two months . ‘ |