Example sentences of "[been] [adj] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economy of these villages — in Mirpur , Jhelum or in East Punjab across the Indo-Pakistan border ( see Table 1 & map ) — has been feudal for centuries . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He must have been asleep for hours . |
| 4 | When he awoke he could not tell if he had fainted or had been asleep for hours or even days . |
| 5 | The cats have been asleep for days . |
| 6 | In areas with long nursery waiting lists it has been usual for governors to establish admission panels drawn from their own members . |
| 7 | The same tenure seems to have been usual for officials in most lawcourts — except for the judges — and in such administrative departments as the Signet Office and the Privy Seal Office . |
| 8 | This last aspect has yet to be fully developed but training agencies have been short-listed for courses scheduled for later this year . |
| 9 | These islands have been Spanish for centuries . |
| 10 | It had been dry for weeks , but there were thunderheads over against the mountains and the atmosphere was heavy with the hint of rain . |
| 11 | Since that time , and first fully developed by the Radical wing of the Liberal Party , it has been normal for parties to fight elections on the basis of a manifesto of policy promises . |
| 12 | The old lady had been deaf for years and had what she called a ‘ thing-gummyjig ’ on her telephone receiver which was intended to help her hear her callers more clearly . |
| 13 | Until 1925 it had been possible for Communists to be represented in all sections of the Labour Party but at the liverpool Conference it was decided to exclude them from membership . |
| 14 | Since the abolition of exchange controls in the UK in October 1979 it has been possible for residents of the UK to hold foreign currency on account if they so wish . |
| 15 | In the eighteenth century it had still been possible for Turks to feel that the empire , inherently superior to the infidel states which threatened it , had no need to stoop to such devices ; but such an attitude was now no longer practicable . |
| 16 | Had this been successful it would have been possible for managers of education and training at every level within a locality to identify major employment issues , to assess likely large-scale change in employment patterns and to identify educational links which might have to be developed or changed . |
| 17 | They 've both been free for years . |
| 18 | He had been old for years and grown so fat in the stomach that he puffed when he stooped . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | It 's been clear for years ( ever since the Hayward exhibitions The Other Story : AfroAsian Artists in Postwar Britain and Art in Latin America met with such dismally insular reponses from most of the critics ) that massive justification is needed for any exhibition that seems ‘ foreign ’ . |
| 21 | I believe it had a thatched roof and it was such a bonny place , but it has sadly been derelict for years . |
| 22 | He built his shed which , made as it was of old floorboards from a couple of hovels that had been empty for years , resembled a shack . |
| 23 | The one I found was run down , anyway , and had been empty for years . ’ |
| 24 | The house on our western side had been empty for years . |
| 25 | She says some have been empty for years and she wants to live in one . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It had been dark for hours . |
| 28 | It 's been dark for ages . |
| 29 | It has n't been easy for people across the country it has n't been easy for businesses and it has n't been easy for the government to do it . |
| 30 | He had wanted a short Report , with strong emphasis on grammar , spelling and punctuation , which would have been easy for parents to read . |