Example sentences of "[been] [verb] for [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 2 | A computerised index has been prepared for these and other donations of commercial and ‘ folk ’ recordings . |
| 3 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 4 | It was first used in readability experiments ( Taylor , 1953 ) , but has subsequently been used for formal and informal testing of reading comprehension , and in a dozen different ways for work in reading development . |
| 5 | In real life he would have been sued for millions and his story turned into a mini-series , but it 's nice to dream . |
| 6 | The campaign to bring Blair Peach 's murderer to justice and the demand for a full public inquiry into the events of ‘ 79 has been mounted for nine and a half years by the Friends of Blair Peach Committee . |
| 7 | If I chose not to reap the benefits of this scheme then I might consider the fate of a few ungrateful citizens who had thought likewise and then seen their homes repossessed , had been inflicted with uncanny storms that ripped tiles from roof and threw chimney stacks into the street , had undergone torment at the hands of timeshare salespeople , had been billed for new and exorbitant taxes and had been struck off their doctors ' registers . |
| 8 | Most of this increase stems directly from government policies and , although some extra resources have been allocated for 1990/91 and 1991/92 , little has been done to remedy the situation . |
| 9 | A target of recycling 50 per cent of recyclable household waste has been set for 2000 and recycling facilities will be a requirement at new shopping developments . |
| 10 | A place had been set for one and I was given bread and a bowl of goulash . ’ |
| 11 | Now the Amendment that has been proposed for this and and the Noble Lord , Lord erm Amendment erm I think it 's Eleven , yes , er proposes something of this nature , but it does n't like co-option . |
| 12 | Spectra or Dyneema lines are slippery and very difficult to knot permanently , so the fishing technique of ‘ sleeving ’ has been adapted for this and each of the similar materials . |
| 13 | Henry 's main religious innovations — the break with Rome , the dissolution of the monasteries , and the partial dissolution of the chantries — had been introduced for political and financial rather than theological reasons . |
| 14 | She had been asked for twelve and it was now half past eleven , which would give her time for a pleasant comfortable drive to Carpendens Court . |
| 15 | By the time human beings first came into being , several million years ago , life had already been evolving for three and a half billion years . |
| 16 | At 10 o'clock when the Division bell goes , the House will have been sitting for seven and a half hours , from prayers through questions , statements and this debate . |
| 17 | Although there is evidence to support Kinsbourne 's hypothesis ( Kinsbourne , 1975a ; Cohen , 1975a ) it can not account for the results of those studies in which opposite field superiorities have been obtained for verbal and non-verbal stimuli presented randomly or simultaneously to each half field of vision ( Terrace , 1959 ; Berlucchi , Brizzolara , Marzi , Rizzolatti and Umilta , 1974 ; Hines , 1975 ; Klein , Moscovitch and Vigna , 1976 ; Pirozollo and Rayner , 1977 ) . |
| 18 | The variations in gas yield and composition with maturity have been determined for Palaeozoic and Tertiary coals using data obtained from laboratory heating experiments . |
| 19 | Of the shortfall , departments had assessed 80m as being unobtainable , and 65m had been rejected for political and other reasons ( Making Things Happen , 1985 ) . |
| 20 | A surgeon and his wife who 's also a doctor have been jailed for nine and three months respectively for repeatedly assaulting their housemaid . |
| 21 | A Glasgow man 's been jailed for four and a half years for blackmailing gay businessmen . |
| 22 | A woman who staged an IRA bomb hoax at an army barracks after being jilted by a soldier has been jailed for four and a half months . |
| 23 | The former treasurer of a polytechnic student union has been jailed for two and a half years for stealing forty thousand pounds . |
| 24 | Although the term ‘ allometry ’ has usually been reserved for morphological and physiological variables related to size , this restriction is unfortunate . |
| 25 | We had been held for three and a half years and we still had no idea when we might be released . |