Example sentences of "been [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Too often , I think , the referee is tempted to shift the goal-posts in reliance upon his own speculation about what it would have been sensible for Parliament to do if Parliament had thought of doing it . |
| 32 | They 've both been free for years . |
| 33 | He had been old for years and grown so fat in the stomach that he puffed when he stooped . |
| 34 | The Cabinet system has been different for Heath , Wilson and Mrs Thatcher . |
| 35 | 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 ) . |
| 36 | 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 ’ . |
| 37 | I believe it had a thatched roof and it was such a bonny place , but it has sadly been derelict for years . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | The one I found was run down , anyway , and had been empty for years . ’ |
| 40 | The house on our western side had been empty for years . |
| 41 | She says some have been empty for years and she wants to live in one . |
| 42 | Chairman James Unruh said the decision had been painful for Unisys , but that the company saw little choice . |
| 43 | Despite Lenin 's theory of national self-determination , the new Soviet Union still embraced the great bulk of the old imperial domains , including minorities like the Georgians and the Ukrainians who had been civilized for centuries before the denizens of what was to become Muscovy . |
| 44 | This signalled the arrival of the half of the school that had NOT been early for assembly , who tried to enter the sports hall at the same time as the half that had just been thrown out tried to exit . |
| 45 | It had been dark for hours . |
| 46 | It 's been dark for ages . |
| 47 | The source/migration/entrapment model suggests that conditions have been favourable for gas accumulation in Palaeozoic reservoirs contained within rift-related fault-blocks and more subtle stratigraphic traps . |
| 48 | Life has n't been easy for Patsy McGowan 's troops of late . |
| 49 | He never kept a catalogue of his stock , so it had been easy for Cleo to pour out a generous measure from each flagon on the upper shelf in Wakelate 's workroom . |
| 50 | It has n't been easy for people across the country it has n't been easy for businesses and it has n't been easy for the government to do it . |
| 51 | He had wanted a short Report , with strong emphasis on grammar , spelling and punctuation , which would have been easy for parents to read . |
| 52 | Things have n't been easy for Nora since your father died . ’ |
| 53 | The owner Janet Stokes says , ‘ Of course , it has n't always been easy for Karen . |
| 54 | It has n't been easy for people across the country it has n't been easy for businesses and it has n't been easy for the government to do it . |
| 55 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |
| 56 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 57 | It might have been easy for Celia to persuade herself that it would all make little difference to me . |
| 58 | It would have been simple for Rachel . ’ |
| 59 | Have the parents been X-rayed for hip dysplasia and do they hold eye certificates ? 2 . |
| 60 | Considering Dicke 's thesis as well as van de Kamer 's publication in 1952 it is quite clear that when Dicke went to Utrecht to perform his classic dietary fat absorption experiments , he had already been convinced for years that wheat , rye , and oat meal products were the offending agents in the cause of coeliac disease . |