Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adj] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , if the person er is sitting watching the television and er has been awake for several hours then we are at a disadvantage . |
| 2 | One has been convinced for some time that the idea was to take Weir in the guise of a No 6 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Thus a verdict at an inquest of natural causes aggravated by lack of care has been available for many years . |
| 5 | We have described this process earlier ( chapter 6 ) , and it seems to occur in every case where fingerspelling has been available for some time and there has been a strong hearing influence . |
| 6 | In fact this shift has been visible for some time and seems at present to be increasing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Adult worm burdens are typically in excess of 40,000 , although lower numbers are often found in animals which has been diarrhoeic for several days prior to necropsy . |
| 9 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 10 | The change of status , too , from ‘ wife , to ‘ widow ’ is felt very keenly by most women as a loss of considerable significance , which indeed it is ; for without a partner , a woman who has been married for some years may , unless she already has well developed interests outside her home , find that her social life is suddenly transformed in a very disturbing way . |
| 11 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 12 | The situation has been poor for some months , but press speculation about receivership has worried suppliers and customers of the brewery . |
| 13 | Abroad , the idea of Freeports has been current for many years . |
| 14 | ‘ He has been outstanding for several weeks now — and he 's got real pace , which you ca n't find these days , never mind buy it . |
| 15 | Gooch has been unwell for several weeks , playing in the first Test at Calcutta with a chest infection that should have ruled him out , missing the three-day match at Vishakhapatnam because he still felt weak , and then pulling out of the second Test at Madras after his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn . |
| 16 | ‘ She has been unwell for some time ; she is liable to spells of nervous depression . |
| 17 | has been unwell for some time and has undergone many diagnostic tests . |
| 18 | The mammalian gut has been stable for many millennia and acts to constrain the flexibility of E. coli 's genome . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ That has been possible for some time . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Middle management has been vulnerable for some time . |
| 23 | Rings of this style are known as ‘ betrothal ’ rings and the design of the clasped hands has been popular for many centuries . |
| 24 | It has been clear for some time that the demands of the arms control process would increasingly dominate military planning . |
| 25 | It has been clear for some time that there are a number of significant practical problems with the interpretation of SSAP 6 , Extraordinary Items and Prior Year Adjustments , particularly in respect of the variety of treatments of apparently similar events as sometimes ordinary and sometimes extraordinary items in the p&l account . |
| 26 | It has been clear for some time that the Al Fayeds are not who they said they were in 1985 . |
| 27 | At the summit of Pico do Arieiro ( 1,818m ) there is a snack bar which has been open for many years , and a pousada recently opened . |
| 28 | Suppose the brochure mentions another hotel , stating that it has been open for several seasons and that it closes every year from November to March . |
| 29 | The latter probably included correspondence with Colonel Filipović in Belgrade , who has been active for many years in agitating for firmer action |
| 30 | The Scottish Council has been active for some years in bringing employers and school pupils much closer together and this important aspect of our work has expanded considerably in recent times . |