Example sentences of "been [adj] in [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Type I disease , the calves have usually been set-stocked in one area for several moths ; in contrast , Type II disease often has a typical history of calves being grazed on a field from spring to mid-summer , then moved and brought back to the original field in the autumn . |
| 2 | She was born about AD 460 , daughter and granddaughter of Roman and Byzantine emperors , whose family had been prominent in Roman politics for over 700 years . |
| 3 | I 'd been welcome in that house for as long as you had-longer , because you were away and I just about lived there . |
| 4 | I have been involved in local politics for several years and I am running in South Ward for the second time . |
| 5 | Catholic Caring Services is an approved adoption agency for the Diocese of Lancaster and has been involved in this work for 60 years . |
| 6 | It had previously been notorious in some areas for the manipulation of electoral boundaries and for the practice of religious discrimination . |
| 7 | Although a textbook on oceanography was produced by a physical geographer and was subsequently divided into two volumes , ( King , 1962 ; 1975 ) the separate discipline of oceanography has been responsible in physical oceanography for research on sea level and its changes ; tides , waves , currents , the physical and chemical properties of sea water as well as the form of the sea floor and marine sediments , and in biological oceanography for research on ocean flora and fauna . |
| 8 | Indeed , the persistent rumours before the current attack had been responsible in some measure for the slowness of the authorities to react on Dec. 1 , 1989 , and coup rumours continued well into 1990 . |
| 9 | But I 've been stuck in this line for twenty years , and I reckon I 'll be stuck in it when I drop . ’ |
| 10 | Natural language corpora have been available in computerised form for over thirty years . |
| 11 | Despite the blaze of publicity which accompanied the launch of the White Paper , the Government has not been successful in generating support for its proposals . |
| 12 | In fact , as the THES noted at the time , the dispute leading to this crisis had been simmering in relative privacy for some time . |