Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [been] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are now getting close to the flanks of Akka , a seven-peaked mountain that has been visible for four or five days . |
| 2 | Throughout industry this election day , a host of trade unionists are waiting with acute anxiety , nursing their hopes : a Labour victory will enable them to reassert their influence on factories throughout the land , in a manner that has been impossible for a decade . |
| 3 | Any management training that has been available for ryokan has been almost entirely ‘ in house ’ up to now , although the whole area of hotel management training is being rethought in Japan . |
| 4 | One of the things that has been hardest for me to deal with in coaching is runners who want to train for both the marathon and the mile at the same time . |
| 5 | Then the king will say to those on his right hand , ‘ You have my Father 's blessing ; come , enter and possess the kingdom that has been ready for you since the world was made . |
| 6 | With the precious metal that has been undetected for so long in the folds of these hills , disseminated through the rock in an average ratio of half an ounce to a ton of stone , the sheer volume of likely debris is worrying . |
| 7 | We shall continue to put pressure on local authorities with stock that has been empty for more than a year . |
| 8 | Meanwhile Dennis Peck , the erstwhile president of Interactive Systems Corp and the man who presided over the sale of half of it to SunSoft Inc , has joined Sequent Computer Systems Inc as senior vice president of marketing , a position that 's been open for over a year . |
| 9 | And finally , a family-run clothes shop that 's been open for more than a hundred years is closing down because there 's no one left to look after it . |
| 10 | Yeah please Jack cos er I er that 's been enough for me to open for myself and the big one 's too big . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Petterson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Pettersson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways … ’ |
| 14 | He has attempted to come off on several occasions and at the time of interview was undergoing methadone withdrawal and has been heroin-free for two months . ‘ |
| 15 | The time out lasts only until the child has stopped the undesirable behaviour and has been quiet for a short time . |
| 16 | This is a very lethal condition and has been responsible for a great many accidents and much loss of life . |
| 17 | For the past two years he has run Colnaghi 's representative office in Paris and has been responsible for business development in Europe , Japan and South America . |
| 18 | She has been at Orion since October , and has been responsible for , among other things , the marketing of Vikram Seth 's A Suitable Boy . |
| 19 | He has been managing director of LASMO North Sea for the last four years and has been responsible for the group 's activities in the UK and Netherlands . |
| 20 | But Ian Shiels , who works in the warehouse and has been responsible for football activity in the past , is aware of this and is hoping for better things to come . |
| 21 | He has had a solid connection with the orchestra and the Scottish music scene ever since , and has been responsible for bringing some unusual works to the concert platform in the past . |
| 22 | It was later occupied by the Earls of Cromarty and the MacKenzies of Ardloch-Assynt , but has been empty for 200 years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | the reduction of contracting disciplines , as measured by the relative size of the literature , and as has been evident for some time in religion and philosophy ; and |