Example sentences of "have been [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each in his time has painted over the inheritance of his predecessor , but the Oak Leaf camps have remained because they have been necessary for each new Czar 's survival . |
| 2 | Rumours of cutbacks at the factory have been rife for some time . |
| 3 | Not to solve what would be his last murder investigation before leaving Lanarkshire CID would , according to Jimmy Hood , the Labour MP for Clydesdale , have been inconceivable for the Carluke-born detective . |
| 4 | Three subsequent colonoscopies have been negative for dysplasia . |
| 5 | German genre subjects have been flat for the past few seasons , so it was a pleasant surprise that Franz von Defregger 's ‘ Tyrolean zither player ’ ( est. $70–90,00 ) sold for $105,000 ( £70,000 ) . |
| 6 | It is a good idea to tell children that all these have been domesticated for many hundreds of years in the service of man , for meat , milk , hide , skins , wool and eggs . |
| 7 | As Kenneth Clark states in his classic study The Nude : ‘ [ Artists ] have found it easier to compose harmoniously the larger units of a woman 's torso ; they have been grateful for its smoother transitions , and above all they have discovered analogies with satisfying geometrical forms , the oval , the ellipsoid and the sphere ’ . |
| 8 | In a development which can also be seen in Zimbabwe , inflationary pressures have been greater for low-income urban households than for those with high incomes . |
| 9 | The transition from the Moscow classroom , to Wycombe High School could not — and should not — have been easy for one so young . |
| 10 | Native birds of region , from Caucasus and SW Asia , all belong to black-necked colchicus type , with rather dark and purplish plumage , lower back and rump mainly rufous , and no neck ring ; these were first introduced in W Europe and in Britain , where they have been present for at least 900 years , used to be known as the ‘ Old English ’ type . |
| 11 | These islands have been Spanish for centuries . |
| 12 | If I remember right , first home matches have been similar for a few years now . |
| 13 | ‘ My husband has put a lot of work into Maastricht and the last six months have been awful for him , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Many of the tips provided so far for the management of children have been relevant for adolescents . |
| 15 | Synthetic brushes have been available for some time and seemed to be the ideal solution , but in the past brushes could be too soft to control well , or too hard to be fully responsive , limiting paint delivery and with little spring , performing as a poor cousin to natural hair and bristle . |
| 16 | Anglo-Saxon archaeology has n't come to a crisis point as did prehistoric studies in the early 1960s ; rather it is gradually slipping into new directions with the establishment of a generation of archaeologists more aware that alternative approaches exist to be tried and which have been available for 20 years . |
| 17 | The standard gauge ( SK840 ) and Chunky ( SK890 ) models have been available for some time . |
| 18 | Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania-based Transarc Corp will begin shipping its Distributed Computing Environment and Encina transaction processing monitor for SunSoft Inc Solaris 2.1 and 2.2 from next month — the development kits for both the environments have been available for over a year . |
| 19 | Although a range of XPG4 specifications have been available for a while now , X/Open says the fact that vendors will bring XPG4-compliant products to market as soon as the end of this month ( see front page ) , demonstrates the measures it has taken to make the latest XPG release more flexible and structured . |
| 20 | Transarc Corp will begin shipping its Distributed Computing Environment and Encina on-line transaction processing monitor for SunSoft Inc Solaris 2.1 and 2.2 from next month — development kits for both environments have been available for over a year . |
| 21 | Data base systems have been available for many years and were developed to make efficient use of secondary storage devices in large computer installations . |
| 22 | ACT ! , developed by Contact Software , is both the US 's and the UK 's best selling contact software package , and PC and network variants tailored to the UK have been available for some time . |
| 23 | The concept of faxing from a PC is not new — fax cards have been available for a number of years , usually accompanied by their own proprietary software . |
| 24 | Economists and economic historians have been interested in measuring poverty and wealth on a per capita basis for some time , and such data have been available for some of the advanced industrial countries for many years . |
| 25 | Although safe and effective vaccines have been available for 10 years , only around 40 per cent of healthcare workers in Europe are vaccinated . |
| 26 | History , as we have mentioned , has been kind : the country has staved off invasion by its enemies , and the resources have been available for government to make and meet commitments in response to changing demands and expectations . |
| 27 | And there has been an unexpected spin-off — because SNIA Fibre is a subsidiary of a chemicals group controlled by Fiat , cars have been available for UK Novaceta workers at discounted prices . |
| 28 | Since March of this year quality greetings cards in many designs have been available for Society members to purchase for £1.00 each . |
| 29 | Thick weathering mantles will only form in regions of minimal local relief where rates of erosion have been low for a prolonged period . |
| 30 | In 1981 it cut the link between earnings and unemployment benefits and uprated benefits in line with price rather than wage increases ( which have been higher for much of the decade ) . |