Example sentences of "[noun] had be [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small dedicated games units had been available for some time but had always had only crude multimedia capabilities . |
| 2 | Donald and Sheila Baughan had been married for 20 years . |
| 3 | St Wulstans had been empty for 4 years . |
| 4 | The theoretical proposal had been public for several years . |
| 5 | Mrs Ireland had been married for thirty-nine years . |
| 6 | Comment on the dollar had been sombre for much of the year in the train of developments the previous autumn . |
| 7 | Punch Magazine : April 8 , aged 150 : The satirical publication had been ill for many years with circulation falling to 33,000 . |
| 8 | ‘ Elsie and Simon had been married for six years or so when she disappeared . |
| 9 | Party contributions had been compulsory for all citizens prior to the RPT 's dissolution . |
| 10 | Volume iv was issued in 1908 , volume v in 1912 , and volume vi in 1921 ( by which time the author had been dead for five years ) . |
| 11 | Wallis was critically afflicted with consumption and William Foster , in a letter published in Peck 's Annals , claimed that Wallis had been sick for thirteen years . |
| 12 | Owen had been conscious for some time of growing movement in the courtyard below . |
| 13 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 14 | What quirk of the feminine psyche had been responsible for that decision ? |
| 15 | Handel had been dead for five years , but his music was still enormously popular ; J C Bach ( whose concert series run by himself and his compatriot Carl Friedrich Abel was one of the highlights of musical life at the time ) was also music master to the queen and a member of her private chamber band : as such he was responsible for organizing elaborate concerts at court . |
| 16 | What petty little tin god had been responsible for this I do not know , for Mr Herbert Morrison , the leader of the LCC as it was then , had set the example after the great fire of December 1961 by taking his bed into the next office to his , and staying there all night . |
| 17 | Elizabeth and Harry had been married for ten years , both for a second time . |
| 18 | The Brockwells had been present for all the evidence at the Palais de Justice in Paris . |
| 19 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 20 | Even though his father had been dead for twenty years , she talked about him as if he were still alive . |
| 21 | Miguel 's voice was suddenly very warm , and Shelley remembered that he and his beautiful young assistant had been close for some time . |
| 22 | They accepted the claims without question and assumed , equally without question , that the detained paramilitary men from the Rathcoole district had been responsible for both of the specified shooting atrocities . |
| 23 | From the head 's point of view , the library had been underfunded for some time with an annual capitation of some £860 , supplemented ( not always willingly ) by a 5% levy on the capitation of each department . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Mr Moores said the manager had been worried for some time that he was not feeling as well as he thought he should . |
| 26 | A doctor examined the body and decided that the man had been dead for several hours . |
| 27 | The twice-married 70-year-old star had been ill for three years . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | These tenements had been empty for several years , the small shopfronts that once elbowed each other along the street boarded up . |
| 30 | She noted the greasy chenille tablecloth which was threadbare where the table edge cut into it — a sure sign , Nelly knew , that the cloth had been undisturbed for many months . |