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 The transition from the Moscow classroom , to Wycombe High School could not — and should not — have been easy for one so young .
9 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 .
10 These islands have been Spanish for centuries .
11 If I remember right , first home matches have been similar for a few years now .
12 ‘ My husband has put a lot of work into Maastricht and the last six months have been awful for him , ’ she said .
13 Many of the tips provided so far for the management of children have been relevant for adolescents .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 The standard gauge ( SK840 ) and Chunky ( SK890 ) models have been available for some time .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Data base systems have been available for many years and were developed to make efficient use of secondary storage devices in large computer installations .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Although safe and effective vaccines have been available for 10 years , only around 40 per cent of healthcare workers in Europe are vaccinated .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 Since March of this year quality greetings cards in many designs have been available for Society members to purchase for £1.00 each .
28 Thick weathering mantles will only form in regions of minimal local relief where rates of erosion have been low for a prolonged period .
29 I have been married for nearly twenty-five years to a very nice kind Englishman .
30 I am 30 , have been married for 10 years and have two children .
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