Example sentences of "[verb] been for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a depressing and dispiriting experience , exactly as life itself has been for the young unemployed , day in and day out . |
| 2 | About four-fifths of housing constructed in the LDDC has been for the owner-occupied sector . |
| 3 | Another important use of statistical grammatical information has been for the grammatical tagging of natural language corpora . |
| 4 | It is worth restating how radical a leader Mrs Thatcher has been for the Conservative party . |
| 5 | Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ? |
| 6 | Broadly , we may say that industry will have to be far less rigid ; indeed much more flexible in adapting itself to change than it has been for the past twenty years . |
| 7 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
| 8 | This temperature increase may appear to be small , but in reality the earth would then be warmer than it has been for the past 125,000 years ( the peak of the last interglacial ) and possibly even warmer than it has been for the past two million years ( the duration of the Quaternary period of fluctuation glacials and interglacials ) . |
| 9 | Since you came here he has laughed more and been amused more than he has been for the past two years . |
| 10 | I do not know where he has been for the past few years , but we have reduced the rates on lower earnings so that people now pay on average about £3 a week less in national insurance . |
| 11 | Another knight , perhaps emboldened by his companion 's hints , argued that the removal of the wool staple from Calais , where it had helped to pay part of the cost of defending the town , had been for the private profit of Lord Latimer , Richard Lyons and others . |
| 12 | It is unlikely that anti-Semitism was as powerful in its motivational force for recruits in the Party 's ‘ mass phase ’ after 1929–30 as it had been for the early activist core of the NSDAP . |
| 13 | Every night was a milestone , and had been for the past fifteen years . |
| 14 | It was how it had been for the past two weeks and the young woman tried to ignore her protesting muscles and her aching back as she stared into the hearth and watched the tiny flames flickering in and out of the carefully banked-up grate . |
| 15 | However in a few incidents the initial charge had been for the full offence of rape … . |
| 16 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 18 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Considerable amounts are being spent on replacing them with better services , and have been for the past few years . |