Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [adj] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The warnings had been clear for some time . |
| 32 | But we were moving in different directions and it had been clear for some while that we stayed together out of habit . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Elizabeth had been unprepared for such a dramatic change . |
| 35 | The theoretical proposal had been public for several years . |
| 36 | The system of raising local authorities ' revenue by means of the rating system ( where the rateable value of property served as the basis for payment ) had been unpopular for many years . |
| 37 | The principessa 's heart , had been bad for some time . |
| 38 | Comment on the dollar had been sombre for much of the year in the train of developments the previous autumn . |
| 39 | America had been amazed for some months by stories of U.S. prisoners of war in Korea who had ‘ gone over to Communism ’ . |
| 40 | Owen had been conscious for some time of growing movement in the courtyard below . |
| 41 | Its importance as a sire had been obvious for many years as its progeny had proved their worth in the show ring and at stud . |
| 42 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 43 | Mr Moores said the manager had been worried for some time that he was not feeling as well as he thought he should . |
| 44 | These tenements had been empty for several years , the small shopfronts that once elbowed each other along the street boarded up . |
| 45 | It had been empty for several years and was dirty , damp and severely vandalised . |
| 46 | When we first hear of it , the house had been empty for some time , and Albert Piggott deplored its neglect . |
| 47 | That was still untended and wild ; the house had been empty for some time before they bought it , or rather Mr Paul had . |
| 48 | The house had been empty for some time now and beginning to feel lonely . |
| 49 | They were also helped into their new home by a team of volunteers who took on the task of cleaning the offices which had been empty for some time . |
| 50 | Punch Magazine : April 8 , aged 150 : The satirical publication had been ill for many years with circulation falling to 33,000 . |
| 51 | He had been ill for many months and his five-year term would not have been renewed at the National People 's Congress which starts on Monday . |
| 52 | Even her father 's death a month ago had n't really affected her , because he had been ill for such a long time that nobody could be sorry that the end had come . |
| 53 | DeRoburt , 69 , who had been ill for several years , had been President of Nauru from independence in 1968 until 1989 , apart from short interludes in 1976-68 ( when he was Leader of the Opposition ) and 1986 . |
| 54 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 55 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 56 | I know your mother had been ill for some time , but I know that this will not have lessened the loss you and your family must now feel . |
| 57 | He had been ill for some time . |
| 58 | Roach , who was a producer , director and screenwriter , had been ill for some time and was under the care of doctors of the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital , a hospital spokeswoman said . |
| 59 | He had been ill for some time , and passed away peacefully on 12 April . |
| 60 | They had been dead for several days when police were called in by neighbours in the millionaire 's district of Rancho Sante Fe , near San Diego , California . |