Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 2 | I 'd been house-sitting for Nassim Nassim 's cousin Sunil in Leytonstone for a week now , which meant that the five-day house-warming party where all my so-called friends drop in to see how I 'm coping , how much booze I 've laid on and what the music centre 's like , had come to an end . |
| 3 | Even the Darwinian theory of evolution was impressive , not because the concept of evolution was new — it had been familiar for decades — but because it provided for the first time a satisfactory explanatory model for the origin of species , and did so in terms which were entirely familiar even to non-scientists , since they echoed the most familiar concept of the liberal economy , competition . |
| 4 | He had found a niche at once with the men , but she told Julia that she had been unhappy for months , struggling with the other women to force local villagers to disgorge food , humping it back up to the camp and preparing it under extraordinarily difficult conditions . |
| 5 | ( Prior to World War I , where gas had been available for cooking , it was often used only for the Sunday dinner . ) |
| 6 | No recording of Jenkins 's music had been available for years before the Thorofon CD , and now this Astrée issue comes onto the market , as if to underline how huge a gap in the recorded repertoire that was . |
| 7 | Neighbours claimed the children 's mother , Sharon Dawson , had been unwell for months . |
| 8 | It had been dry for weeks , but there were thunderheads over against the mountains and the atmosphere was heavy with the hint of rain . |
| 9 | Had he not been she might have telephoned him instead of Nick , when she had been desperate for company . |
| 10 | Until 1925 it had been possible for Communists to be represented in all sections of the Labour Party but at the liverpool Conference it was decided to exclude them from membership . |
| 11 | In the old days before the local government reorganization of 1974 , it had been possible for Local Education Authorities to make their decisions relatively autonomously , with a view to the educational needs of local children , and under the guidance of often very high-powered and imaginative Chief Education Officers . |
| 12 | The weather had been typical for August with a period of heavy rain and the men returning to work found that a land slip had occurred . |
| 13 | In the circumstances ( that is , of Jack 's plan to have his wife and mistress under one roof ) it had been necessary for Patrick to move , and Patrick , being distinctly better , had moved , or had been moved . |
| 14 | Nicos Sampson , leader of the short-lived right-wing regime of 1974 , was conditionally released from imprisonment in Cyprus on April 28 ; he had been due for release in March 1994 [ see also p. 38450 ] . |
| 15 | The corporation will pay the estimated £250,000 costs of the action , which had been due for trial in January . |
| 16 | Unkiar-Skelessi had been due for renewal anyway . |
| 17 | The new arrangements had been due for introduction on April 1 but the Government was forced to shelve them last month after dentists threatened a mass exodus from the NHS . |
| 18 | One patient died of disseminated colonic cancer after three years ( see Table I , patient E ) , the three previous complete annual colonoscopies had been negative for dysplasia . |
| 19 | Two patients who had been negative for dysplasia were found to have low grade dysplasia in their colectomy specimens . |
| 20 | But Major , Patten , Douglas Hurd , Kenneth Clarke , and even Michael Heseltine , were left with no choice but to argue that Thatcherism had been good for Britain . |
| 21 | The return of the Emperor to France and the subsequent declaration of war had been good for Harper 's trade ; a good hunter stolen from a Protestant plantation in Ireland would fetch a prime price in England where so many officers equipped themselves for the campaign . |
| 22 | ( Guyana had been ineligible for IMF aid since 1985 — see p. 33977 . ) |
| 23 | Alien species beating natives on their home ground had been decisive for Lyell 's species extinction theorising , where the analogy with the European human conquests over America Indians was explicit . |
| 24 | He felt light-headed , as if he had been awake for days on end . |
| 25 | It had been dark for hours . |
| 26 | When he awoke he could not tell if he had fainted or had been asleep for hours or even days . |
| 27 | He never kept a catalogue of his stock , so it had been easy for Cleo to pour out a generous measure from each flagon on the upper shelf in Wakelate 's workroom . |
| 28 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 29 | This was an unusually clear and succinct statement of assumptions which had been current for generations . |
| 30 | He spoke as if they had been married for years , and could joke about sharing a bed . |