Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [adj] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The food industry has been rather quiet for a couple of years but we have recently finished a Jaffa cake plant for McVities/United Biscuits in Manchester and a sugar refining job for Tate & Lyle . |
| 2 | Constance had been sound asleep for an hour before the double-engined train began to jerk laboriously out of the station , leaving many travellers on the platform to wait who knew how long for the next express . |
| 3 | She may have been more assertive for a while as she found her feet , but she is remembered mainly for the way she consulted staff and her obvious concern to do the best in every situation . |
| 4 | He registered that George Wood 's information had been correct , paid his bill and — to the relief of the landlord — went on his way over the pass and not back to Keswick , which would have been more likely for a government man . |
| 5 | The other one is phone Pete up and tell him that you 've been off sick for a week ca n't play football this week . |
| 6 | If we have been indirectly responsible for a death , there is only one way we can make amends . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ This time , a far bigger bite was taken and even those which have been relatively stable for a number of years have been damaged . |
| 8 | The one that has n't been in fact to employ somebody particularly perhaps to go out the market theatre but this particular mark in time it 's been very difficult for a theatre to actually find twenty thousand this financial year in fact we had to find seventy thousand pound cuts , that was a very difficult exercise so the answer to your question is we accept that recommendation and as soon as the finance is available we intend to employ somebody to take on that task . |
| 9 | Once his parents were able to reassure him that his mummy had been very ill for a while but now she was better but had to take medicine he became a much easier boy to handle and stopped urinating on the carpet . |
| 10 | If the 1957 explanation was false , the theory runs , then the subsequent loss of face would have been too great for a correction to be issued in Gromyko 's lifetime . |