Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adj] for [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Lady Street had returned to what must have been normal for any morning at this time ; the delivery vans had gone , there was sporadic traffic in the one-way street , and people had no time to stand about gawping at the bookshop though they slowed their pace in passing and tried to look in without appearing to do so . |
| 32 | Since the end of Athens ' archaic war with Eleusis it would have been absurd for any deme of Attica to think of rivalling Athens . |
| 33 | If a property is insufficiently furnished for full habitation , it may also have been unoccupied for some length of time . |
| 34 | It would have been unthinkable for former premier Margaret Thatcher to go to America without being received by then-president Ronald Reagan amid tributes to the two country 's ‘ special relationship ’ . |
| 35 | And so she threw herself at him , leaping for his throat , a tall , strong , totally desperate girl with nothing whatsoever to lose , who would have been hard for any man to handle , even a man as powerful and totally unchivalrous as Christie Goldsborough , had he not been ready for her . |
| 36 | This is the last bond to be actively redeemed until 1957 when a minor flurry of interest in activating redemption might have been responsible for some bond buying-in activity , although the Club waited until 1983 for the total buying-in to take place . |
| 37 | Had local authorities still the influence over schools which was diminished by the Education Reform Act , it would have been commonplace for each authority to compare the performance of its own policies and of its own schools with a national standard . |
| 38 | It seems to have been unusual for any girl to go beyond straight typesetting to learn much about the other processes at this stage : a crucial point . |
| 39 | Compact disc technology had been available for some time , but the quadraphonic experiment had failed and videotape technology was in something of an impasse . |
| 40 | When we entered the local office to add yet more to my daughter 's investments , the helpful cashier advised us to switch from her existing account , requiring 90 days ’ notice of withdrawals to an instant access ‘ Prime Gold ’ account which had been available for some time , and in fact paid higher interest . |
| 41 | Small dedicated games units had been available for some time but had always had only crude multimedia capabilities . |
| 42 | He had been unwell for some time and had now gone into a state of collapse . |
| 43 | The weather had been dry for some time and , fanned by an easterly wind , the fire spread rapidly until , within three days , it had engulfed most of the city . |
| 44 | From the head 's point of view , the library had been underfunded for some time with an annual capitation of some £860 , supplemented ( not always willingly ) by a 5% levy on the capitation of each department . |
| 45 | He had been best man at their wedding — a formidable pre-nuptial agreement had been necessary for that capitulation — and had carried out his duties with a mixture of incompetence , vulgarity and irreverence which , as she occasionally enjoyed telling Norman , had spoilt for her the memory of her big day . |
| 46 | She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away . |
| 47 | His friend and doctor , Dr James Mortimer , said that Sir Charles ' heart had been weak for some time . |
| 48 | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself . |
| 49 | Miguel 's voice was suddenly very warm , and Shelley remembered that he and his beautiful young assistant had been close for some time . |
| 50 | He had been asleep for some time , physically exhausted after his ordeal , but now he tossed and turned , held fast in the grip of some awful nightmare . |
| 51 | All three were aware that the King and Queen had , after four years of war , come to represent to their subjects all that was best in the domestic and public virtues , and that there had been current for some time an idea of presenting to them a gift as a mark of national respect , thanks and loyalty . |
| 52 | In fact it had been open for some time already as had half a dozen other places within easy walk because America believes in man 's inalienable right to eat whenever he is awake . |
| 53 | But we were moving in different directions and it had been clear for some while that we stayed together out of habit . |
| 54 | The warnings had been clear for some time . |
| 55 | The implications of the Black and Tans ' behaviour and of the complicity of the Government in their reign of terror had been clear for some time , but Tubby 's experience had brought it all into sharp focus . |
| 56 | The principessa 's heart , had been bad for some time . |
| 57 | Owen had been conscious for some time of growing movement in the courtyard below . |
| 58 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 59 | Mr Moores said the manager had been worried for some time that he was not feeling as well as he thought he should . |
| 60 | When we first hear of it , the house had been empty for some time , and Albert Piggott deplored its neglect . |