Example sentences of "been [adj] [noun sg] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Siddhi , who had been Foreign Minister for 10 years but was considered hostile to Chatichai 's Cambodia policy and to any rapprochement with Vietnam [ see p. 37654 ] , was dropped altogether from the government . |
| 2 | There has been limited provision for gifted children in the past . |
| 3 | ( Although a famous novelist has recently garnered considerable publicity for memorizing his interviews , this has long been standard practice for many sociologists . ) ’ |
| 4 | They 'll also want to know why you 're doing it , when there 's been constant obstruction for two years . |
| 5 | Until then there had been widespread sympathy for Polish aspirations for greater autonomy ‘ and the government had moved cautiously in that direction . |
| 6 | He had been Prime Minister for eight years and 241 days . |
| 7 | Another notable resident then was the Honourable Thomas Walpole , the second son of Lord Walpole of Wotterton , Norfolk , and the younger brother of the great Sir Robert Walpole , who had been Prime Minister for twenty-two years during the first half of the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman is clearly under the misapprehension that I have been Prime Minister for 50 years — not yet . |
| 9 | The success of the appeal would therefore have been alarming news for any officer who had tampered with the original notes of interview in any other case . |
| 10 | It may be able to detect the entire NCSA virus library , but it 's still oblivious to some viruses that have been common knowledge for many months . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been practising golf for two weeks in Florida and now I ca n't hit the ball properly . |
| 12 | Rising stress claims have also been bad news for big employers like Wells Fargo Bank , the California institution which echoes back to the stage coach era . |