Example sentences of "been in [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the summer Solchaga had been in fruitless negotiations for a " pact of progress " between the government and the two main unions — the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( CCOO ) . |
| 2 | His coinage system seems to have been in good order for most of the reign , although its development and exploitation for the king 's benefit may have been another cause of popular unrest . |
| 3 | Hnatiuk says his savings account has been in good shape for a boy this past two years . |
| 4 | Keith has been in serious training for the last two weeks . |
| 5 | Elliott began to take things easy and Reveille Boy , who had been in hot pursuit for some time , reduced the gap . |
| 6 | Osric , king of Northumbria ( 718–29 ) ( HE V , 23 ) , no details of whose reign are known , could have been a son of Ealhfrith or of Aldfrith , and either way his accession will have represented a restoration of Oswiu 's family to royal power ( even if , in the former case , of a branch which had been in political eclipse for half a century ) , but his successor Ceolwulf ( 729–37 ) was a brother of Coenred ( HE V , 23 ) and Ceolwulf 's successor , Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , son of Eata , son of Leodwald , was Ceolwulf 's first cousin . |
| 7 | One of the dangers of the current climate for admission , which makes it more difficult than it has been in recent years for students to get into universities , is that the concentration is on the techniques of application , rather than on what lies behind the mechanical process . |
| 8 | Iro has been in poor form for the Sea Eagles and was told several weeks ago that he would have to take a pay cut to stay with the club . |
| 9 | Have a degree or equivalent qualification directly relating to your employment , and have been in regular employment for at least two years ; and |
| 10 | By then , L had been in foster care for about a month . |
| 11 | March has been in financial difficulties for some time and does n't have a sponsor for this season . |
| 12 | You must have been in full-time employment for a fixed time before you can claim ? |
| 13 | As with Northern Tyneside as a whole , the growth in employment had been in part-time employment for women with a significant growth in part-time employment for men . |
| 14 | The Soren Larsen , which starred in the TV series the Onedin Line had been in dry dock for seven months . |
| 15 | It has been in accelerating decline for more than a decade , but the crunch is fast approaching . |
| 16 | ‘ We are certainly bearing in mind Nathan Munson , who has been in excellent form for the Youths over the last couple of months , ’ explained McDonough . |
| 17 | Yet the earliest known usage of ‘ South Saxons ’ does not appear until a royal charter of 689 names them and their king , Northelm , although the term may well have been in common use for some time before that . |
| 18 | A tribe of Aborigines known as the Dolphin People , who live on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria , in northern Australia , is said to have been in direct communication for thousands of years with the wild bottlenose dolphins who reside just off the coast . |
| 19 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 20 | In the early stages many of the children had been in residential care for periods of years , had little or no contact with members of the natural family and had lost all serious hope of returning there . |
| 21 | Someone who has been in residential care for a number of years may initially find independent living a frightening prospect . |
| 22 | The profits have been in public relations for a long time but too often those in charge have refused to invest some measure of it in capital equipment that would improve client services and the daily life of their workers . |
| 23 | The colt has been in constant demand for the 2,000 Guineas and is a 12–1 chance . |
| 24 | The most-loved horse in National Hunt history has been in constant demand for public appearances since his retirement from racing on Boxing Day last year . |
| 25 | It has opened a preliminary EOS Europe office and its EOS Korea has been in full operation for six months . |
| 26 | It has a preliminary EOS Europe office and EOS Korea has been in full operation for six months . |
| 27 | As the carpet has been in satisfactory use for some years , we should not expect it to be the actual cause of trouble . |
| 28 | This last index has been a boon to many UK fund managers concerned over relative performance , since it has been weighed down by the Tokyo market , which has been in sustained fall for a period of nearly three years . |
| 29 | ALTHOUGH India 's selectors resisted the temptation to make wholesale changes after their disastrous tour of Australia , they did bring in two young batsmen who missed the trip : Ajay Jadeja , 21 , who has been in fine form for Haryana this season , and left-hander Vinod Kambli , 20 , who has already appeared in one-day internationals and made 262 for Bombay against Saurashtra recently . |
| 30 | Malcolm Cockbain , who has been in fine form for Birkenhead St Mary 's , fills the vacancy in a side to be led by Peter Mercer because of the unavailability of regular skipper Jeff Spence . |