Example sentences of "[adv] been [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 88open has decided to offer its system and application compatibility test suites — ITS/88 , AVS/88 and ACT/88 — to industry consortia and companies : although to date they have only been available for Motorola Inc 88000 RISC based systems , interested parties would presumably customise the sets for other architectures . |
| 2 | It had long been traditional for offices to hold an annual dinner for staff in the winter and an outing or picnic in summer . |
| 3 | Colonizing species of alien genera doing likewise had long been decisive for Darwin 's species origin theorizing , where the analogy with the European human conquests over Australasian natives was hardly less explicit . |
| 4 | This signalled the arrival of the half of the school that had NOT been early for assembly , who tried to enter the sports hall at the same time as the half that had just been thrown out tried to exit . |
| 5 | All young people falling into that category but over the age of 18 who have not been available for YT because of disability , ill health , pregnancy , a custodial sentence , remand or language difficulty are entitled to an offer of a suitable YT programme and to receive such training . |
| 6 | In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements . |
| 7 | The postcode to Enumeration District directory and the digitised boundary data enable it to be mapped and compared with data compiled on a different geographical basis , an aid which has not been available for censuses prior to 1981 . |
| 8 | Observers from the US National Democratic Institute said that there had been " serious problems " , that voter registration was incomplete , that registers had not been open for inspection , and that Biya had been allocated 142 minutes of coverage on the state-owned television service between Oct. 7 and polling day , while the six opposition candidates shared only 12 minutes . |
| 9 | It seems therefore that implanted metal despite a potential to induce fibrosis or inflammation , has not been responsible for malignancy . |
| 10 | It has thus been customary for dung and bedding to be rotted for up to a year in a midden ( or field heap ) before spreading on the land . |
| 11 | Considering Dicke 's thesis as well as van de Kamer 's publication in 1952 it is quite clear that when Dicke went to Utrecht to perform his classic dietary fat absorption experiments , he had already been convinced for years that wheat , rye , and oat meal products were the offending agents in the cause of coeliac disease . |
| 12 | I understand names like Paraguay 's Juan Carlos Giminez , who had to pull out of a previous challenge with a damaged hand , Americans Darrin Van Horn and Lindell Holmes plus Italian Vicenzo Nardiello have already been short-listed for November . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The owner Janet Stokes says , ‘ Of course , it has n't always been easy for Karen . |
| 15 | It has always been common for students of literature to imitate their teachers ' styles , including in seemingly incidental respects . |
| 16 | McLeish decided it would be a waste of time to suggest that it would have hardly been reasonable for Angela Morgan to expect to inherit a quick fortune from a man of sixty-two . |
| 17 | Does the Foreign Secretary agree that an international conference as proposed simply would not succeed unless Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities admit that they have both been responsible for atrocities and extremism ? |
| 18 | They 've both been free for years . |
| 19 | The LTTE has also been responsible for massacres , both of Sinhalese and Moslem civilians , since June 1990 and against rival Tamil political groups who , in some cases , have now aligned themselves with the government 's forces . |
| 20 | Life has n't been easy for Patsy McGowan 's troops of late . |
| 21 | Things have n't been easy for Nora since your father died . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It had n't been difficult for Bill to accede to his wife 's nagging to give the girl a break . |
| 25 | The steady erosion from astronomical to merely high has at least been good for morale : a further cut after the holidays might just jolly people into voting Tory if there were to be an autumn election . |
| 26 | From time to time I have had vivid dreams in which the Majestic has again been open for business , the glass cases full of photographs , lit up , with posters advertising wonderful movies covering the outside walls . |
| 27 | I believe it had a thatched roof and it was such a bonny place , but it has sadly been derelict for years . |