Example sentences of "have [been] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Some of the most effective recruitment campaigns I have worked with have been for limited commitment .
2 ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking .
3 However , those who are unemployed , especially if they have been for some time , may find it is more important to send out as many letters as possible , in the hope of getting some response .
4 I am much slimmer and a better shape than I have been for some time ( or for months , years , etc. ) and I am going to get even slimmer and achieve an even better figure — a figure I never thought I could have .
5 ‘ I think you do follow us , ’ Cranston replied , ‘ and have been for some time .
6 Well , we have been for some time .
7 To live in a beautiful country , and to enure myself as much as possible to the labour of the field , have been for this year past my dream of the day , my sigh at midnight .
8 To live in a beautiful country & to inure myself as much as possible to the labors of the field , have been for this year past my dream of the day , my Sigh at midnight — but to enjoy these blessings near you , to see you daily , to tell you all my thoughts in their first birth , and to hear your 's , to be mingling identities with you , as it were ; — the vision-weaving Fancy has indeed often pictured such things , but Hope never dared whisper a promise ! ’
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