Example sentences of "[been] [adj] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the end of Athens ' archaic war with Eleusis it would have been absurd for any deme of Attica to think of rivalling Athens . |
| 2 | He had been asleep for some time , physically exhausted after his ordeal , but now he tossed and turned , held fast in the grip of some awful nightmare . |
| 3 | ‘ The nurse tells me she 's been asleep for some time . ’ |
| 4 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 5 | In many rural areas it has therefore been usual for local farm workers to work on the land ‘ man and boy ’ . |
| 6 | The weather had been dry for some time and , fanned by an easterly wind , the fire spread rapidly until , within three days , it had engulfed most of the city . |
| 7 | Well it 's been dry for another day . |
| 8 | His friend and doctor , Dr James Mortimer , said that Sir Charles ' heart had been weak for some time . |
| 9 | I 'm ten years older now , and in retrospect I see that if Francesca had lived we would n't have been right for each other . ’ |
| 10 | Rumours of cutbacks at the factory have been rife for some time . |
| 11 | Lady Street had returned to what must have been normal for any morning at this time ; the delivery vans had gone , there was sporadic traffic in the one-way street , and people had no time to stand about gawping at the bookshop though they slowed their pace in passing and tried to look in without appearing to do so . |
| 12 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 13 | It would have been possible for British Aerospace to manufacture the wings and for Rolls-Royce to manufacture the engines . |
| 14 | However , they were originally scheduled for different nights , but it has always been possible for this scenario to arrise , so why did n't they just schedule the matches to be played at the same time no matter what ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ That has been possible for some time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ The consequence has been that for some time , by mutual agreement , we have led more separate lives . ’ |
| 19 | The Queen 's Press Secretary , Charles Anson , has apologised to the Queen and the Duchess of York for a row after the announcement of the Yorks ' separation which suggested that the Duchess may have been unsuitable for Royal life . |
| 20 | To be sure of having bulbs in flower at Christmas , it is advisable to buy specially prepared ones which have been temperature-treated for early flowering . |
| 21 | During the party leadership contest much emphasis had been placed in the media on the fact that Major had not had the advantage of a privileged home background or education , that his father had once been a trapeze artist , that his family had lived in a flat in Brixton in South London , and that he had left school at 16 and been unemployed for some time . |
| 22 | But we were moving in different directions and it had been clear for some while that we stayed together out of habit . |
| 23 | It has been clear for some time that the demands of the arms control process would increasingly dominate military planning . |
| 24 | The warnings had been clear for some time . |
| 25 | It has been clear for some time that there are a number of significant practical problems with the interpretation of SSAP 6 , Extraordinary Items and Prior Year Adjustments , particularly in respect of the variety of treatments of apparently similar events as sometimes ordinary and sometimes extraordinary items in the p&l account . |
| 26 | The implications of the Black and Tans ' behaviour and of the complicity of the Government in their reign of terror had been clear for some time , but Tubby 's experience had brought it all into sharp focus . |
| 27 | It has been clear for some time that the Al Fayeds are not who they said they were in 1985 . |
| 28 | When we first hear of it , the house had been empty for some time , and Albert Piggott deplored its neglect . |
| 29 | That was still untended and wild ; the house had been empty for some time before they bought it , or rather Mr Paul had . |
| 30 | The house had been empty for some time now and beginning to feel lonely . |