Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] for [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | IBIsys has been available for four years and has around 15,000 customers scattered across Italy , Europe , Canada , South Africa and Australia . |
| 3 | Thus a verdict at an inquest of natural causes aggravated by lack of care has been available for many years . |
| 4 | Groups of bed-sitters with communal lounge facilities have been tried , and in some places the shared lounge has been available for social facilities for the old people of the neighbourhood . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Maitre Lelièpvre has been married for 60 years , and has a son . |
| 8 | Mr McNally : ‘ This investigation has been ongoing for five months . |
| 9 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 10 | The situation has been poor for some months , but press speculation about receivership has worried suppliers and customers of the brewery . |
| 11 | Abroad , the idea of Freeports has been current for many years . |
| 12 | This usage has been current for 20 years . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Since the introduction of the Financial Services Act in 1988 it has been compulsory for financial advisers and salesmen to base their advice upon a clients ' current ability to pay future as well as present requirements . |
| 16 | In the past it has been compulsory for visiting yachtsmen to call on VHF Ch 16 for a pilot to guide them in , but thankfully this practice has now been abandoned in Vyborg . |
| 17 | The currency has been stable for six months . |
| 18 | The mammalian gut has been stable for many millennia and acts to constrain the flexibility of E. coli 's genome . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But Anne Rogers whose son James has been unconscious for six years says the ruling just puts pressure on her to do the same thing . |
| 21 | In case police behaviour changes as new procedures and rules become familiar , then whole research exercise will be repeated again after the Act has been operational for eighteen months ( summer 1987 ) . |
| 22 | Rings of this style are known as ‘ betrothal ’ rings and the design of the clasped hands has been popular for many centuries . |
| 23 | The elementary school has been open for twelve years offering the children of US service staff a throughly American education . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He has attempted to come off on several occasions and at the time of interview was undergoing methadone withdrawal and has been heroin-free for two months . ‘ |
| 27 | She keeps her boyfriend , who has been unemployed for four years . |
| 28 | Haim Scheider , an economist who left Lithuania 10 years ago , has been unemployed for 18 months , but still has no regrets . |
| 29 | The latter probably included correspondence with Colonel Filipović in Belgrade , who has been active for many years in agitating for firmer action |
| 30 | By the death , at the age of 66 , of Mr. Philip Henry Thomas which took place after a long illness , on Saturday the 18th instant , at his residence at 13 Rusham Road , Battersea loses a citizen who has been active for 40 years in championing the cause of Liberalism in this borough … . |