Example sentences of "been [adj] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've been asleep for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | This fairy castle in the clouds has been asleep for a hundred years and the briars are beginning to take over . |
| 3 | The IBOA is very conscious of the fact that this issue has been outstanding for a considerable length of time and it is hoped that the proposals will pave the way for a speedy resolution to the problem . |
| 4 | Thick weathering mantles will only form in regions of minimal local relief where rates of erosion have been low for a prolonged period . |
| 5 | It would not have been possible for the long progression towards the perfect physical being , to have ever occurred at all , if it were encumbered by the constraints of compassion , an emotion which , by the very nature of evolution was completely non-existent before the dawn of civilisation . |
| 6 | Had the House of Lords retained the power to block the Commons utterly , and particularly had it not been possible for the Labour administration of 1945–51 force through its nationalisation policies by using the Parliament Act procedure to amend the 1911 Act , it is likely that the House of Lords would have been abolished . |
| 7 | It has not been possible for the American navy to leave behind the assets that it had developed there , but my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence will certainly take note of the point that the hon. Lady raised about Ministry of Defence assets in the area . |
| 8 | If it had been possible for the old Castle to grow darker , Grainne thought it would have done so in the hour that followed . |
| 9 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 10 | Bill Muggeridge , he noted with regret , had been free for the first hour , when Pumfrey and Fenniway had been busy with the Fromes , but was not free again until after lunch . |
| 11 | At the very least , the discipline of being involved in some form of training will help counteract the feeling of lethargy that creeps over many people who have been unemployed for a long while — a characteristic which is very counterproductive in an interview . |
| 12 | To summarize : if you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long period : |
| 13 | If you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long time you have two additional problems to overcome . |
| 14 | It has been clear for a long time that where land adjoining the highway is unintentionally entered , i.e. as a result of a car accident , that the plaintiff must prove negligence ( River Wear Commissioners v Adamson ( 1877 ) 2 App Cas 743 ) . |
| 15 | Well if it came over his house th oh of course , next to the that will have been empty for a few years so |
| 16 | Some of them have been empty for the 20 years since they were built , others have been empty for just a few years . |
| 17 | The trend towards equality of attainment is especially marked in schools that have been comprehensive for a long time . |
| 18 | It 's been amazing for the very fact that everything is so different , every job is different . |
| 19 | If I remember right , first home matches have been similar for a few years now . |
| 20 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 21 | Thus , it has hitherto been appropriate for the professional partnership where limited liability is forbidden . |
| 22 | Together they started to laugh , the deep chuckle and the dry whispery cackle rolling past the monks , who returned with a start to their praying ; past Bridhe , Elizabeth , Marion , Hector and his young attendants , the women , clan officers , nephews , cousins , clansmen great and common , clustered weeping at the death-bed of the man who had been chief for the whole life-time of most of them . |
| 23 | The aggressively minded General Conrad von Hötzendorff , Chief of the Austrian General Staff , had long been avid for a pre-emptive war . |
| 24 | The system has also been ported to an MS-DOS environment , an operation which would have been impossible for the rule-based system . |
| 25 | Gasoline would have been ideal for a sudden blaze ; the sealed nuclear drive was useless in that respect . |
| 26 | ‘ War 's been inevitable for a long time , Anne . ’ |
| 27 | Stable jockey Chris Grant said : ‘ He had been ill for a long while , but carried on because his horses were his life . ’ |
| 28 | Old John Knox had been ill for a long time and , two years after I joined the firm , he was told that he must retire . |
| 29 | Very often I spend long days on my allotment , and cook quite nice dinners of , say , breast of mutton and peas and fruit off the allotment for myself and a [ woman ] friend who has been ill for a long time … . |
| 30 | But the poor woman had been ill for a long time , although we had not realized it , and died soon after Hareton was born . |