Example sentences of "been [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt heavy-lidded and drowsy , as if she had been asleep for a week . |
| 2 | He wondered whether he 'd been asleep for a while , or just deep in thought . |
| 3 | ‘ You must have been asleep for a very long time , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ It feels like I 've been asleep for a long , long time . |
| 5 | You 've been asleep for a long time . ’ |
| 6 | This fairy castle in the clouds has been asleep for a hundred years and the briars are beginning to take over . |
| 7 | You have been asleep for the past two hours . ’ |
| 8 | Iain Ogilvy McWhirter ( Senior English and Religious Instruction ) had been asleep for the past ten minutes , but Tom Tedder ( Art and Woodwork ) said ‘ Arrgh ’ through closed lips , and that seemed to do well enough . |
| 9 | I 've been asleep for an hour . |
| 10 | I had been poorly for a while and could n't eat and the doctor thought it may be appendicitis so he sent me to Darlington Hospital . |
| 11 | In fact , the revenue has been stable for the last three years . |
| 12 | It would have been opportune for the committee to examine the whole purpose and function of A levels , to see whether they were needed at all ; or whether , if retained , they should be radically changed . |
| 13 | TWO British actresses , Elizabeth Hurley and Lysette Anthony , have been short-listed for the leading female role in Gone With The Wind II : Scarlett . |
| 14 | Newark 's recently-completed Avro Anson C.19 VL348 has been short-listed for an award in the Scania Transport Trust Award Scheme . |
| 15 | He had been dry for the past twenty years . |
| 16 | Since it has been weak for the past two months , calling for cheaper money is as irrelevant as wanting trees to blossom in an Arctic winter . |
| 17 | Britain 's best performance was produced by Paul Evans , the Barcelona Olympics reserve , who finished fifth in 2–10–36 , 13 places ahead of Steve Brace ( 2–14–11 ) , who has been pre-selected for the Games . |
| 18 | the cabin is smart and modern , and the panel well-stocked … but we would have been grateful for an autopilot . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The IBOA is very conscious of the fact that this issue has been outstanding for a considerable length of time and it is hoped that the proposals will pave the way for a speedy resolution to the problem . |
| 21 | In certain circumstances it might have been preferable for a beneficiary to have a real action , in which case he would press for interpretation as a legacy . |
| 22 | Thick weathering mantles will only form in regions of minimal local relief where rates of erosion have been low for a prolonged period . |
| 23 | Without this control it would have been possible for a Committee with a bondholding minority to make bad decisions to the cost of the Bondholders . |
| 24 | Under these circumstances , it would have been possible for a ship sailing south from Thera to dock at Dia , unload and set sail again for destinations to the east or west . |
| 25 | If it had been possible for a bird to stop still with surprise in the air , and stay exactly where it was , that rook would have done it then . |
| 26 | It would even have been possible for the Secretary of State to have a reserve power to insist on ever more names from which to choose . |
| 27 | It would not have been possible for the long progression towards the perfect physical being , to have ever occurred at all , if it were encumbered by the constraints of compassion , an emotion which , by the very nature of evolution was completely non-existent before the dawn of civilisation . |
| 28 | Had the House of Lords retained the power to block the Commons utterly , and particularly had it not been possible for the Labour administration of 1945–51 force through its nationalisation policies by using the Parliament Act procedure to amend the 1911 Act , it is likely that the House of Lords would have been abolished . |
| 29 | So it would have been possible for the GMC to try to challenge the basis of clinical ecology . |
| 30 | A text frequently has a much wider variety of interpretations imposed upon it by analysts studying it at their leisure , than would ever have been possible for the participants in the communicative interaction which gives rise to the ‘ text ’ . |