Example sentences of "has been [adj] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever Keith has been good for a day Mr Smith should watch a programme on the television with him . |
| 2 | According to Professor Ian Fells of Newcastle University , the technology has been available for a while . |
| 3 | Newark 's recently-completed Avro Anson C.19 VL348 has been short-listed for an award in the Scania Transport Trust Award Scheme . |
| 4 | Throughout industry this election day , a host of trade unionists are waiting with acute anxiety , nursing their hopes : a Labour victory will enable them to reassert their influence on factories throughout the land , in a manner that has been impossible for a decade . |
| 5 | At other times it has been possible for an individual to bring foreign coins or bullion to the mint and receive it back as coinage ( minus a fee ) . |
| 6 | And now would you believe it 's the other Notts player who had n't scored this season , has been desperate for a goal , Paul . |
| 7 | Although it has been operational for a while , it was only recently that Ski survey visited this slope , to attend a Peter Lightfoot ski course . |
| 8 | So do I. To anyone capable of seeing beyond a county bank balance , it has been clear for a number of years that there is too much limited-overs cricket played by the counties and that the present mix of three and four-day Championship games is not only confusing , especially now that they start on different days of the week , but also unnecessarily exhausting for all involved . |
| 9 | ‘ English football has been dead for a decade now , ’ he added . |