Example sentences of "who have been [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I promptly eased it back onto the lap and desperately tried to imitate someone who has been asleep for hours , with his arm wrapped fiercely round his dog . |
| 2 | Ruth McCurry , who has been responsible for Mowbray 's development since its purchase by Cassell in 1988 , continues as publisher with responsibility for Geoffrey Chapman . |
| 3 | Two patients who had been negative for dysplasia were found to have low grade dysplasia in their colectomy specimens . |
| 4 | And although Whigs under Anne liked to claim that James had been deposed for breaking his original contract with the people , they found it a credible way of embarrassing their political opponents to argue that it was the Tories who had been responsible for James 's downfall . |
| 5 | Despite Lenin 's theory of national self-determination , the new Soviet Union still embraced the great bulk of the old imperial domains , including minorities like the Georgians and the Ukrainians who had been civilized for centuries before the denizens of what was to become Muscovy . |
| 6 | Five others who had been eligible for parole following the first trial were now imprisoned . |
| 7 | Increasingly such flats have come to be part of a system of ‘ less eligibility ’ for those households whose actual behaviour is judged not to conform to the domestic ideal : women single parents dependent on state benefits , families with housewives who are defined as ‘ poor ’ housekeepers by other women employed by the local authority to make such judgements ( Ungerson , 1971 ) , families headed by men who have been unemployed for years , and single women ( Austerberry and Watson , 1983 ) . |
| 8 | We encounter people who have been dead for years , or improbably have conversations with film stars or royalty . |