Example sentences of "have be [adj] for year " in BNC.
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| 1 | This neglect of walking has been apparent for years . |
| 2 | The dispute , which has been simmering for years , came to the boil in April when Michael Harcourt , the province 's premier , revealed a scheme that would protect 33% of the region , permit limited logging in 17% , and open the rest to extensive ( although , at least in theory , well-managed ) timber harvesting . |
| 3 | It has been true for years of much of manufacturing ( completely differentiating the position of , for instance , Peugeot-Renault in France from British Leyland , or Bull from ICL ) . |
| 4 | By the end of the novel Jaromil has forsworn his artist friend , who is under the ban of the regime and compelled to paint by candlelight : ‘ The whole world of his pictures has been dead for years . |
| 5 | No recording of Jenkins 's music had been available for years before the Thorofon CD , and now this Astrée issue comes onto the market , as if to underline how huge a gap in the recorded repertoire that was . |
| 6 | He spoke as if they had been married for years , and could joke about sharing a bed . |
| 7 | The old lady had been deaf for years and had what she called a ‘ thing-gummyjig ’ on her telephone receiver which was intended to help her hear her callers more clearly . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The one I found was run down , anyway , and had been empty for years . ’ |
| 10 | The house on our western side had been empty for years . |
| 11 | The preacher was describing with enthusiasm how he had been wicked for years and how a certain parson had pointed it out to him : this had gradually turned him from wickedness . |
| 12 | After the war opinion was more fluid and open on political grounds the tariff issue had been dead for years and I felt it was one which would pull the party together , including the Lloyd George malcontents . |
| 13 | Their mother had been dead for years , and their father had died only three weeks before . |
| 14 | Damned if he was going to call her Empress when her first husband , the Holy Roman Emperor , had been dead for years . |
| 15 | People within the health and social services had been aware for years of the patients ' accusations , but nothing was done . |
| 16 | He had been old for years and grown so fat in the stomach that he puffed when he stooped . |
| 17 | He heard himself , it sounded like a door opening somewhere inside him , it was an old door , it had been stuck for years , you had to heave on it , you needed all your strength , and then it gave a few inches , and cried out as it gave . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've been worried for years about their tendency to see Britain as a soft market in which to make a killing . ’ |
| 19 | As I 've been stuck for years now |
| 20 | She says some have been empty for years and she wants to live in one . |
| 21 | Increasingly such flats have come to be part of a system of ‘ less eligibility ’ for those households whose actual behaviour is judged not to conform to the domestic ideal : women single parents dependent on state benefits , families with housewives who are defined as ‘ poor ’ housekeepers by other women employed by the local authority to make such judgements ( Ungerson , 1971 ) , families headed by men who have been unemployed for years , and single women ( Austerberry and Watson , 1983 ) . |
| 22 | We encounter people who have been dead for years , or improbably have conversations with film stars or royalty . |
| 23 | It 's been clear for years ( ever since the Hayward exhibitions The Other Story : AfroAsian Artists in Postwar Britain and Art in Latin America met with such dismally insular reponses from most of the critics ) that massive justification is needed for any exhibition that seems ‘ foreign ’ . |
| 24 | But — yes , the poor old thing is rather queer — in fact , she 's been mad for years , so you see now why I needed no special qualifications . |
| 25 | ‘ I told you , he 's been dead for years , ’ the guard snaps . |