Example sentences of "[vb base] been [adv] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've I 've been really housebound for five |
| 2 | Almost all the bogs have been extensively peat-cut for domestic fuel . |
| 3 | The plague may not , however , have been solely responsible for urban decay , as there are few signs of the expansion of suburbs in English towns between 1300 and the end of the Middle Ages , and at Oxford there are references to houses falling into decay as early as 1340 . |
| 4 | As an employer , you are obliged to pay a minimum level of sick pay to most employees , aged 16 or over , who have been off sick for four or more days in a row . |
| 5 | Epicontinental seas have been biologically significant for several reasons . |
| 6 | For Marxists , petty bourgeois producers seem destined to be replaced by monopoly capital , while the advantages rendered by economies of scale have been sufficiently impressive for neo-classical economists to stress the unreality of atomistic competition . |
| 7 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |
| 8 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |