Example sentences of "[been] [adj] for [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 ’ . |
| 32 | Assume as before that national income has been constant for several time periods at £1,000 , and that autonomous investment is initially equal to £500 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Owen had been conscious for some time of growing movement in the courtyard below . |
| 35 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | He had been ill for some time . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | He had been ill for some time , and passed away peacefully on 12 April . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | In addition to the traditional vented system , it is now permissible to have an unvented hot water storage system , which does away with the cold water cistern altogether and has other advantages ( see page 58 for details ) ; sealed central heating systems ( which do away with the feed-and-expansion cistern ) have been legal for some time . |
| 44 | However , if the house has been unoccupied for some time , the boards will need to be conditioned with water — this method can also help to flatten wavy boards . |
| 45 | " If a flat 's been unoccupied for some time , you 'd expect a pile of letters inside the door . " |
| 46 | If a property is insufficiently furnished for full habitation , it may also have been unoccupied for some length of time . |
| 47 | She had guessed that the reason was something to do with Jennifer for she had known that her sister had n't been well for some while and had been undergoing tests since experiencing stabbing pain in her right eye and numbness in her legs . |
| 48 | Of course he 's not been well for some time and he did n't take care of himself . ’ |
| 49 | She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away . |
| 50 | Middle management has been vulnerable for some time . |
| 51 | These complications are only likely to set in if the infection has been present for some time , and this is only likely to happen if the infection is an asymptomatic one . |
| 52 | Too numerous to list here individually , most were of early-1980s , vintage and had not been airworthy for some time . |
| 53 | They have also been responsible for many symposia and meetings for specialists in the field of venereology . |
| 54 | What quirk of the feminine psyche had been responsible for that decision ? |
| 55 | In practice , this mistake has been responsible for much confusion in the discussion of syntactic possibilities and their means of expression . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | The newcomers , of course , have not been responsible for this loss of rural autonomy — indeed , they have been equally affected by the growing remoteness of decision-making . |
| 58 | If you have been sedentary for some time and are not used to physical exertion , then you should begin slowly , walking for no more than 20 minutes every other day , at a pace which stretches you but does not overtire you . |
| 59 | The tendency for international capital flows to increase has been evident for some time , and was causing problems for central bank intervention in the final years of the Bretton Woods system . |
| 60 | In the US this trend has been evident for some time . |