Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] for [adj] " 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 | Not much has been made of this migration , some ethnic tension apart , and even less of the fact that in the years since the second world war it has been essential for western European economic life . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | IBIsys has been available for four years and has around 15,000 customers scattered across Italy , Europe , Canada , South Africa and Australia . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thus a verdict at an inquest of natural causes aggravated by lack of care has been available for many years . |
| 8 | Depo-Provera has been available for short-term use in Britain since 1978 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Groups of bed-sitters with communal lounge facilities have been tried , and in some places the shared lounge has been available for social facilities for the old people of the neighbourhood . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We are now getting close to the flanks of Akka , a seven-peaked mountain that has been visible for four or five days . |
| 13 | In fact this shift has been visible for some time and seems at present to be increasing . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Maitre Lelièpvre has been married for 60 years , and has a son . |
| 21 | Mr McNally : ‘ This investigation has been ongoing for five months . |
| 22 | The Burford to Bibury road has been awash for most of the afternoon . |
| 23 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 24 | The situation has been poor for some months , but press speculation about receivership has worried suppliers and customers of the brewery . |
| 25 | To idealize Cuddesdon has been easy for many . |
| 26 | Abroad , the idea of Freeports has been current for many years . |
| 27 | This usage has been current for 20 years . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ She has been unwell for some time ; she is liable to spells of nervous depression . |