Example sentences of "been [adj] for [det] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mammalian gut has been stable for many millennia and acts to constrain the flexibility of E. coli 's genome . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But we were moving in different directions and it had been clear for some while that we stayed together out of habit . |
| 4 | It has been clear for some time that the demands of the arms control process would increasingly dominate military planning . |
| 5 | It has been clear for some time that there are a number of significant practical problems with the interpretation of SSAP 6 , Extraordinary Items and Prior Year Adjustments , particularly in respect of the variety of treatments of apparently similar events as sometimes ordinary and sometimes extraordinary items in the p&l account . |
| 6 | It has been clear for some time that the Al Fayeds are not who they said they were in 1985 . |
| 7 | It had been empty for several years and was dirty , damp and severely vandalised . |
| 8 | That was still untended and wild ; the house had been empty for some time before they bought it , or rather Mr Paul had . |
| 9 | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself . |
| 10 | One has been convinced for some time that the idea was to take Weir in the guise of a No 6 . |
| 11 | In fact this shift has been visible for some time and seems at present to be increasing . |
| 12 | Its importance as a sire had been obvious for many years as its progeny had proved their worth in the show ring and at stud . |
| 13 | He had been ill for many months and his five-year term would not have been renewed at the National People 's Congress which starts on Monday . |
| 14 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 15 | Roach , who was a producer , director and screenwriter , had been ill for some time and was under the care of doctors of the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital , a hospital spokeswoman said . |
| 16 | The weather had been fine for some days and the mood was right . |
| 17 | She had guessed that the reason was something to do with Jennifer for she had known that her sister had n't been well for some while and had been undergoing tests since experiencing stabbing pain in her right eye and numbness in her legs . |
| 18 | Of course he 's not been well for some time and he did n't take care of himself . ’ |
| 19 | They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 20 | The range was designed in the USA under the watchful eye of Chris Kelley , the director of Artist Relations for Hoshino and who has in the past been responsible for such marriages as Joe Satriani and Steve Vai with their custom Ibanez guitars . |
| 21 | They have also been responsible for many symposia and meetings for specialists in the field of venereology . |
| 22 | This appears to have been responsible for several stunts and was implicated in the general increase of physical violence against Jews in the East End in the middle 1930s . |
| 23 | If you have been sedentary for some time and are not used to physical exertion , then you should begin slowly , walking for no more than 20 minutes every other day , at a pace which stretches you but does not overtire you . |
| 24 | Does the Minister recognise that those of us who are friends of Kenya have been concerned for some time that that country has been slipping from the flagship position of good and open government in Africa ? |
| 25 | Data base systems have been available for many years and were developed to make efficient use of secondary storage devices in large computer installations . |
| 26 | Small dedicated games units had been available for some time but had always had only crude multimedia capabilities . |
| 27 | Synthetic brushes have been available for some time and seemed to be the ideal solution , but in the past brushes could be too soft to control well , or too hard to be fully responsive , limiting paint delivery and with little spring , performing as a poor cousin to natural hair and bristle . |
| 28 | We have described this process earlier ( chapter 6 ) , and it seems to occur in every case where fingerspelling has been available for some time and there has been a strong hearing influence . |
| 29 | Mr Moores said the manager had been worried for some time that he was not feeling as well as he thought he should . |
| 30 | Suppose the brochure mentions another hotel , stating that it has been open for several seasons and that it closes every year from November to March . |