Example sentences of "[been] [adj] for [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 2 | The mammalian gut has been stable for many millennia and acts to constrain the flexibility of E. coli 's genome . |
| 3 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 6 | The state 's involvement offers crucial protection , since failure to accept a coin or tampering with it in some way , like making a forgery , then is regarded as a crime against the state , and serious penalties including execution have frequently been normal for such activities . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 9 | The theoretical proposal had been public for several years . |
| 10 | The technique , has been existent for some years , and should provide information which may be of use in identifying high levels of expenditure within a particular specialty within a district , and should be of value in assisting local planning . |
| 11 | Rings of this style are known as ‘ betrothal ’ rings and the design of the clasped hands has been popular for many centuries . |
| 12 | Vanity basins have been popular for some years now , especially in larger bathrooms . |
| 13 | This represents a major step forward in unlocking the commercial potential of our inner cities and of breathing new life into areas which may have been derelict for many years . |
| 14 | Riddel 's Warehouse , Ann Street , ( 1867 ) : blighted by proximity to police station , has been empty for many years . |
| 15 | The warehouse has been empty for many years , but holding repairs have meant at least that water penetration to the fabric is reduced . |
| 16 | These tenements had been empty for several years , the small shopfronts that once elbowed each other along the street boarded up . |
| 17 | The gallery has been empty for several years . |
| 18 | It had been empty for several years and was dirty , damp and severely vandalised . |
| 19 | A third of its beds have been empty for several years . |
| 20 | The single dog , who has probably been bored for many years , suddenly has a new playmate , who like himself , sleeps most of the time , but will enjoy a game for short periods . |
| 21 | It could not have been easy for these men to deliver flocks and herds safely to their destination and the advent of motor transport must have been a blessing to animals . |
| 22 | For this reason I have been convinced for some months that interest rates are too high and that they should start to be reduced at once . |
| 23 | Tension along the 38th parallel had been serious for some months : General Hodge informed the joint chiefs of staff in January 1948 that both the south Korean police and north Korean border guards were engaged in sporadic attacks on one another . |
| 24 | There are , however , two longstanding situations on Southern Sandstone where payment of an admission fee has been customary for many years . |
| 25 | Its importance as a sire had been obvious for many years as its progeny had proved their worth in the show ring and at stud . |
| 26 | The system of raising local authorities ' revenue by means of the rating system ( where the rateable value of property served as the basis for payment ) had been unpopular for many years . |
| 27 | This is particularly true for those with multiple symptoms who have been ill for many years . |
| 28 | Punch Magazine : April 8 , aged 150 : The satirical publication had been ill for many years with circulation falling to 33,000 . |
| 29 | He had been ill for many months and his five-year term would not have been renewed at the National People 's Congress which starts on Monday . |
| 30 | DeRoburt , 69 , who had been ill for several years , had been President of Nauru from independence in 1968 until 1989 , apart from short interludes in 1976-68 ( when he was Leader of the Opposition ) and 1986 . |