Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adj] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , if the person er is sitting watching the television and er has been awake for several hours then we are at a disadvantage . |
| 2 | One has been convinced for some time that the idea was to take Weir in the guise of a No 6 . |
| 3 | However , if the house has been unoccupied for some time , the boards will need to be conditioned with water — this method can also help to flatten wavy boards . |
| 4 | Moreover , to offer vocational courses such as TEC and BEC , where these were not previously available , would have required suitably qualified staff and appropriate facilities at a time of recession when money has been available for neither . |
| 5 | Thus a verdict at an inquest of natural causes aggravated by lack of care has been available for many years . |
| 6 | We have described this process earlier ( chapter 6 ) , and it seems to occur in every case where fingerspelling has been available for some time and there has been a strong hearing influence . |
| 7 | This facility has been available for most of the season running on certain days of the week using a vintage bus supplied by the Wilts and Dorset Bus Company . |
| 8 | In fact this shift has been visible for some time and seems at present to be increasing . |
| 9 | Before turning to the detail of the debate , my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Health , who has been present for most of the debate , has asked me to apologise to the House on her behalf for the fact that she could not stay throughout . |
| 10 | These complications are only likely to set in if the infection has been present for some time , and this is only likely to happen if the infection is an asymptomatic one . |
| 11 | Adult worm burdens are typically in excess of 40,000 , although lower numbers are often found in animals which has been diarrhoeic for several days prior to necropsy . |
| 12 | The man accused of murdering an Open University lecturer was taken ill and has been absent for most of the second day of his trial . |
| 13 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 14 | The change of status , too , from ‘ wife , to ‘ widow ’ is felt very keenly by most women as a loss of considerable significance , which indeed it is ; for without a partner , a woman who has been married for some years may , unless she already has well developed interests outside her home , find that her social life is suddenly transformed in a very disturbing way . |
| 15 | The Burford to Bibury road has been awash for most of the afternoon . |
| 16 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 17 | The situation has been poor for some months , but press speculation about receivership has worried suppliers and customers of the brewery . |
| 18 | To idealize Cuddesdon has been easy for many . |
| 19 | Abroad , the idea of Freeports has been current for many years . |
| 20 | ‘ He has been outstanding for several weeks now — and he 's got real pace , which you ca n't find these days , never mind buy it . |
| 21 | Gooch has been unwell for several weeks , playing in the first Test at Calcutta with a chest infection that should have ruled him out , missing the three-day match at Vishakhapatnam because he still felt weak , and then pulling out of the second Test at Madras after his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn . |
| 22 | ‘ She has been unwell for some time ; she is liable to spells of nervous depression . |
| 23 | has been unwell for some time and has undergone many diagnostic tests . |
| 24 | As has been normal for most organized communities that are not based on a money economy , African society was based on slavery ( in the sense of the life-long ownership of human beings who could be traded ) , which sometimes involved plantation work or even being used as a human sacrifice : there is no calculus to compare the disadvantages of local slavery with those of being taken across the Atlantic and used as plantation or mining labour . |
| 25 | The mammalian gut has been stable for many millennia and acts to constrain the flexibility of E. coli 's genome . |
| 26 | It has been helpful for many in showing that complex medieval Latin plainchant can be simplified and adapted to modern English texts , whilst retaining the basic musical principles of the eight Gregorian modes . |
| 27 | It has been possible for many of us , for example , to respond to dance from quite other cultures , and to sculpture , carving and painting not only from other cultures but from other , often very remote , times . |
| 28 | It has been possible for some time to cruise down the Nile , or stay in some of the jewelled and painted palaces of Moghul India , or walk along the Great Wall of China . |
| 29 | ‘ That has been possible for some time . |
| 30 | For National Certificate modules it has been possible for some time to approve alternative outcomes , under certain circumstances , for students with special needs of all kinds . |