Example sentences of "been [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It could be improved by including all the results of excavations since 1961 , but this has not been possible for various reasons , the most important of which is that it is no longer the intention to study the results of 367 , but to turn to another event recorded by Ammianus which can be illuminated by this old study and by more recent work . |
| 32 | Since December 1981 it has been possible for non-US residents to hold euro-dollar deposits and obtain euro-dollar loans from international banking facilities within the USA . |
| 33 | Many of the country lanes were so narrow that it would not have been possible for two vehicles to pass each other , but after half an hour , they cut into the main road that ran south from Cherbourg to Carentan . |
| 34 | ‘ It would have been possible for one of w to have poisoned his food , perhaps . |
| 35 | It would have been possible for British Aerospace to manufacture the wings and for Rolls-Royce to manufacture the engines . |
| 36 | On the other hand , Kemp was a lightly-built , light-boned man , and it would have been possible for most people here , let us say — anyone reasonably mobile , reasonably fit — to have moved that body at least some small distance . |
| 37 | However , they were originally scheduled for different nights , but it has always been possible for this scenario to arrise , so why did n't they just schedule the matches to be played at the same time no matter what ? |
| 38 | It has been possible for some time to cruise down the Nile , or stay in some of the jewelled and painted palaces of Moghul India , or walk along the Great Wall of China . |
| 39 | ‘ That has been possible for some time . |
| 40 | For National Certificate modules it has been possible for some time to approve alternative outcomes , under certain circumstances , for students with special needs of all kinds . |
| 41 | He named it Latimeria and informed an astonished world that a creature thought to have been extinct for 70 million years was still alive . |
| 42 | Ashton thus created a special style fur a particular character which summed up — as it were — her whole being , but which would have been unsuitable for any other ballet . |
| 43 | The Queen 's Press Secretary , Charles Anson , has apologised to the Queen and the Duchess of York for a row after the announcement of the Yorks ' separation which suggested that the Duchess may have been unsuitable for Royal life . |
| 44 | The theoretical proposal had been public for several years . |
| 45 | On admission she had been anuric for 24 h ( haemoglobin 4.4 g/dL , potassium 4.1 mmol/L , creatinine 937 mmol/L , urea 119 mmol/L , lactic dehydrogenase 3327 IU/L , platelets 71×10/L ) . |
| 46 | To be sure of having bulbs in flower at Christmas , it is advisable to buy specially prepared ones which have been temperature-treated for early flowering . |
| 47 | This could be the year they do , though they say that around the Cam every year and have been wrong for 15 of the last 16 . |
| 48 | People in here have been brain-dead for fifteen years . ’ |
| 49 | she 's been bedridden for twenty years now or whatever |
| 50 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 51 | ‘ He 's been free for three days now , and people are frightened . |
| 52 | The impact of that has been different for older and younger generations and has affected the position of each generation in relation to financial support from relatives , and also assistance with accommodation . |
| 53 | The technique , has been existent for some years , and should provide information which may be of use in identifying high levels of expenditure within a particular specialty within a district , and should be of value in assisting local planning . |
| 54 | She keeps her boyfriend , who has been unemployed for four years . |
| 55 | Haim Scheider , an economist who left Lithuania 10 years ago , has been unemployed for 18 months , but still has no regrets . |
| 56 | Of the 2,329 youngsters registered with Hampshire County Council Careers Service , 21 percent have been unemployed for six months or more . |
| 57 | The following table shows where a sample of school-leavers who had either been on a government Youth Opportunities Scheme ( YOPS ) or been unemployed for six weeks by the beginning of October 1978 had ended up by April 1979 . |
| 58 | That 's why we have put in place the most varied , comprehensive programme ever to help people who have been unemployed for six months or more . ’ |
| 59 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on . |
| 60 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on.A 17-year-old youth made a remark and the offence was committed . |