Example sentences of "been [adj] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Roebuck family had probably been staunch Nonconformists for some time . |
| 2 | Siddhi , who had been Foreign Minister for 10 years but was considered hostile to Chatichai 's Cambodia policy and to any rapprochement with Vietnam [ see p. 37654 ] , was dropped altogether from the government . |
| 3 | There has been limited provision for gifted children in the past . |
| 4 | ( Although a famous novelist has recently garnered considerable publicity for memorizing his interviews , this has long been standard practice for many sociologists . ) ’ |
| 5 | They 'll also want to know why you 're doing it , when there 's been constant obstruction for two years . |
| 6 | Until then there had been widespread sympathy for Polish aspirations for greater autonomy ‘ and the government had moved cautiously in that direction . |
| 7 | THE PAST three dry years have not been good ones for young trees . |
| 8 | ‘ But there have been major changes for 1993 . |
| 9 | Glenys and Neil Kinnock have been regular customers for several years and it was Glenys who had the honour of cutting the ribbon . |
| 10 | As I use Taskmax and Windows 3 , both of which use SWAP designations , these would have been primary candidates for missing disk space , except in both cases the swap areas are allocated to E : \WIN — a subdirectory on a 3Mb RAM drive . |
| 11 | He had been Prime Minister for eight years and 241 days . |
| 12 | Another notable resident then was the Honourable Thomas Walpole , the second son of Lord Walpole of Wotterton , Norfolk , and the younger brother of the great Sir Robert Walpole , who had been Prime Minister for twenty-two years during the first half of the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman is clearly under the misapprehension that I have been Prime Minister for 50 years — not yet . |
| 14 | The success of the appeal would therefore have been alarming news for any officer who had tampered with the original notes of interview in any other case . |
| 15 | Norman Brackley 's family have been growing Sweetpeas for 4 generations . |
| 16 | He 's been breeding Herefords for 45 years and it breaks his heart to see us importing rubbish from overseas . |
| 17 | Here , the manageress Giovanna has been welcoming guests for 30 years and prides herself on offering a simple , comfortable hotel and a good choice of menu . |
| 18 | Injuries and fitness have been topical issues for some time now . |
| 19 | Unlike the Koran , however , the Bible has long been fair game for spirited literary re-readings . |
| 20 | It may be able to detect the entire NCSA virus library , but it 's still oblivious to some viruses that have been common knowledge for many months . |
| 21 | There may have been secret conclaves for this purpose . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been practising golf for two weeks in Florida and now I ca n't hit the ball properly . |
| 23 | This had normally been sufficient pretext for direct military intervention , and some action of this kind appears to have been under consideration in December 1980 and again in March 1981 . |
| 24 | Rising stress claims have also been bad news for big employers like Wells Fargo Bank , the California institution which echoes back to the stage coach era . |
| 25 | The 1980s have been bad years for lone mothers , as for so many others . |