Example sentences of "been [adv] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lillywhite recovered after crashing just after the Horseshoe Pass climb at Llangollen at 73 miles though it had not been all plain sailing for the Banana team . |
| 2 | The Irish have been so busy praying for the winners that they must have forgotten to ask for the right weather . |
| 3 | And there has been more bad news for employment in Oxfordshire : |
| 4 | The nationalities concerned are generally Lutheran ( Estonians and Latvians ) or Roman Catholic ( Lithuanians ) by religion , not Orthodox , and they have been under Soviet rule for a much shorter period of time than most other nationalities , since 1940 rather than the immediate post-revolutionary period ( when communist-led governments were briefly established in all three republics ) . |
| 5 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been under withering fire for the past year or so from companies seduced into trying to build machines compatible with Sun 's own — and then finding that the company artfully withholds all the best bits for itself . |
| 6 | ‘ Twenty thousand civilians , including 1,000 wounded , 2,000 invalids , about 3,000 children , 500 pregnant women have been under incessant shelling for 36 days , ’ said the appeal . |
| 7 | Khost , situated south of Kabul near the border with Pakistan in Paktia province , had been under virtual siege for the duration of the Afghan civil war . |
| 8 | The National Endowment for the Arts in the United States has been under heavy fire for its choices , as is usual for Ministries , whether in nineteenth-century France or the present-day USSR . |
| 9 | Northamptonshire has been under Conservative control for the last eight years but it 's still tight . |
| 10 | Serbia ( including Macedonia and Kosovo ) and Bosnia and Herzegovina had been under Turkish rule for four or five centuries . |
| 11 | By 1910 however , it seems to have been fairly standard practice for the daughters of skilled manual workers to try to get into printing . |
| 12 | It is not a recent development ; there have been mentally handicapped people for as long as there have been people , and efforts to cope with their presence have been proceeding since the last century . |
| 13 | There have been mentally handicapped people for as long as there have been people but , before the industrial revolution in the nineteenth century , public awareness was low . |
| 14 | It has been very good experience for my future career . ’ |
| 15 | Our French Canadian friends have been very good company for us ( actually , the woman , Dorothy , is Scottish by birth and upbringing ) , and we have been improving our French at the breakfast table , so even if ( as I fear ) we shall come home unable to speak more than ‘ hullo ’ ‘ goodbye ’ and ‘ thank you ’ in Chinese , at least our French will be a bit better . |
| 16 | The first four months of 1993 have been very busy ones for the IBOA . |