Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Septizonium , an ancient Roman temple at the south-east corner of the Palatine , which had long since been annexed for other uses , safe from outside interference and imperial troops , for it was still possible for emperors to attempt to interfere with elections , the election commenced after each cardinal had celebrated mass and all of them had exchanged the kiss of peace . |
| 2 | Latterly , until its closure in 1963 , it was used by the permanent-way department , and has since been sold for industrial purposes . |
| 3 | The government announced on Aug. 20 that it was planning to open up for exploration by foreign oil companies areas that had hitherto been reserved for Indian state-owned companies . |
| 4 | Nostrils had only been gone for ten minutes before the speaker announced : |
| 5 | Its proper specification has only been given for some simple cases . |
| 6 | DNA bending does not seem to be a general feature of eukaryotic transcription factors and has hitherto only been demonstrated for little more than a handful of such proteins ( see e.g. 44,69 and references therein ) . |
| 7 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 8 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 9 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 10 | Cos it 's only been running for three years |
| 11 | A superb SWAN which has only been used for private cruising in the Med . |
| 12 | To protect privacy , phone numbers have only been included for those governing bodies which have an office . |
| 13 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 14 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 15 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |
| 16 | US giants such as Microsoft have a strong commitment to multimedia CD-ROM publishing have long been searching for suitable properties . |
| 17 | As Westminster aide to the party leader , Mr Durkan has long been tipped for higher offices . |
| 18 | The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage . |
| 19 | He had obviously been searching for appropriate words of censure during the silence . |
| 20 | A similar undated sequence was recorded in Green Cutting to the east , where the courtyard had obviously been used for industrial activities prior to the demise of the associated building . |
| 21 | In some places the books had not been touched for hundreds of years and could hardly be seen for dust . |
| 22 | It claims the annual American-South Korean military exercises , known as Team Spirit , are a threat to the North ; that the Americans still have nuclear weapons in South Korea ; and that the South has not been inspected for nuclear bases . |
| 23 | If it has a Solex carb then this is probably worn out as they have not been fitted for many years . |
| 24 | Back came all the romance of train travel that had not been seen for fifty years . |
| 25 | The 70-year-old has not been seen for four weeks since leaving the Robert Huggins home for the elderly in Acklam . |
| 26 | Gateways were opening up here in Salt Lake , and things would be coming through the like of which had not been seen for thousands of years . |
| 27 | The wide-field/planetary camera has produced its share of dramatic pictures , including detailed ones of a storm on Saturn the like of which has not been seen for 60 years . |
| 28 | Sergeant Raymond Mitchell , of Cape Town police , told TODAY : ‘ Sharon had not been seen for 24 hours , and in the current climate in the country , we were anxious for her welfare . |
| 29 | Sergeant Raymond Mitchell , of Cape Town police , told TODAY : ‘ Sharon had not been seen for 24 hours , and in the current climate in the country , we were anxious for her welfare . |
| 30 | And he had not been seen for some days . |