Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had , in fact , treated her as a man might well treat a wife to whom he 'd been married for some years — a relaxed , comfortable relationship in which there was no need for any outward signs of affection . |
| 2 | He 'd been dead for several hours . |
| 3 | But she never suspecting it was , you know , when they 'd been alright for seven years you |
| 4 | Terry er sorry Roger if , if I were interviewing for posts , I would appoint , and you know full well I would , the people that I thought were best for that job . |
| 5 | While Self knew that the pressures were great , and respected the engineers ' need to retain control of technical aspects of contracts and tender assessments , he also knew that the engineers were deliberately fending him off and impeding the agreement on procedures which he felt was essential for Central Authority financial control . |
| 6 | To kill someone , all she did was fast for three days and concentrate her mind on destroying the life of her enemy . |
| 7 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 8 | Compact disc technology had been available for some time , but the quadraphonic experiment had failed and videotape technology was in something of an impasse . |
| 9 | When we entered the local office to add yet more to my daughter 's investments , the helpful cashier advised us to switch from her existing account , requiring 90 days ’ notice of withdrawals to an instant access ‘ Prime Gold ’ account which had been available for some time , and in fact paid higher interest . |
| 10 | Small dedicated games units had been available for some time but had always had only crude multimedia capabilities . |
| 11 | He had been unwell for some time and had now gone into a state of collapse . |
| 12 | The weather had been dry for some time and , fanned by an easterly wind , the fire spread rapidly until , within three days , it had engulfed most of the city . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 15 | When he returned to the Gold Coast he had been absent for 12 years : he had departed far too young to have made any mark . |
| 16 | Of the remaining 176 ( 38 per cent ) , 16 had been present for 20–45 years and two for an astonishing 50 years . |
| 17 | An example of this is the case of a lady of forty-five who attended the clinic with neuralgia which had been present for some years . |
| 18 | Disparate and haphazard as it was , one thing is certain : popular discontent with the system had been general for several years . |
| 19 | He had been best man at their wedding — a formidable pre-nuptial agreement had been necessary for that capitulation — and had carried out his duties with a mixture of incompetence , vulgarity and irreverence which , as she occasionally enjoyed telling Norman , had spoilt for her the memory of her big day . |
| 20 | When Godoy was contemplating patriotism his enemy Ferdinand , who had been intriguing for French support for some months , put all his faith in Napoleon 's endorsement of the revolution of Aranjuez . |
| 21 | She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away . |
| 22 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 23 | She had been amenorrhoeic for six months before her first attendance at this hospital . |
| 24 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 25 | Party contributions had been compulsory for all citizens prior to the RPT 's dissolution . |
| 26 | It was an argument that had been simmering for two days , and it was clear he was beginning to waver . |
| 27 | And some of the authoritarian oligarchies had been good for economic growth — as in Brazil in the 1970s , or Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew — while others , like the Greek colonels , had not . |
| 28 | His friend and doctor , Dr James Mortimer , said that Sir Charles ' heart had been weak for some time . |
| 29 | Tension along the 38th parallel had been serious for some months : General Hodge informed the joint chiefs of staff in January 1948 that both the south Korean police and north Korean border guards were engaged in sporadic attacks on one another . |
| 30 | It had been worse for ten days . |