Example sentences of "been [adj] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two . |
| 2 | The idea is to give a taste of life outside for mental patients who may have been inside institutions for up to twenty years . |
| 3 | Although some of the Wealden towns may have been regional centres for craft specialisation , such as Battle with its leather working and shoemaking , most of them provided a wide range of services which allowed a high degree of virtual self-sufficiency to their surrounding areas . |
| 4 | The Roebuck family had probably been staunch Nonconformists for some time . |
| 5 | Nowhere do you mention the several hundred thousand Arabs ( Muslims , Christians ) who carry Israeli passports and have been second-class citizens for the past 45 years . |
| 6 | The Netherlands , Switzerland and Luxembourg have traditionally been popular locations for holding companies in Europe . |
| 7 | Horses have been favourite subjects for artists from time immemorial-how lovingly is the horse depicted in Rembrandt 's The Polish Rider-but the artist who paid equal attention to dancers and horses was Degas ; he understood the special elegance of the way in which they both moved . |
| 8 | But there have been some increases for those living in the larger cities , which have been worst hit by the crime wave . |
| 9 | The Thatcher Years have been splendid ones for a goodly number of golf members throughout this Royal and Ancient land of ours . |
| 10 | In recent years , by far the most important item has been individual demands for back payment of overtime earnings following court decisions on the method of calculating the hourly overtime rate . |
| 11 | The crisis has been created by the Government and it provides the context in which there have been tremendous implications for training . |
| 12 | There have been urgent calls for action to end all production of ozone-depleters such as CFCs well ahead of the 2000 deadline set by the Montreal Protocol [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 13 | But of course : it had been three years for Ace . |
| 14 | ‘ The Doctor says it 's been three years for you , ’ the Professor said . |
| 15 | It had been three years for Ace . |
| 16 | Though had Simon produced such a ringing anti-apartheid statement as this there would surely have been little grounds for complaint about his Graceland trip . |
| 17 | There have been frequent demands for a single system and investigations of its possibility ; for after the introduction and spread of comprehensive schools it was clearly both inconvenient and divisive that pupils within the same school should be classified either as fit to take the GCE or fit only for the CSE . |
| 18 | Then the farmer admitted that there had been many applicants for the job already , but each had been driven out of the stall by the horse . |
| 19 | In doing so I like to think that we had been good ambassadors for the Department ; I know we all enjoyed every minute of the three hectic months . |
| 20 | THE PAST three dry years have not been good ones for young trees . |
| 21 | Most of the clergy and the peasants were not subjected to the hazards of battle , and the higher clergy seem to have been good risks for the actuary . |
| 22 | An additional complication to Rugby 's future has been legal writs for damages by Mal Malik , a former Coventry and Rugby flank-forward . |
| 23 | GLASTONBURY is dominated by the dramatic and mysterious Glastonbury Tor , which towers above the flat landscape of the Somerset Levels , where peat digging and withy growing for basketmaking have been traditional occupations for generations . |
| 24 | ‘ But there have been major changes for 1993 . |
| 25 | Glenys and Neil Kinnock have been regular customers for several years and it was Glenys who had the honour of cutting the ribbon . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The top rated American TV programme has been beguiling children for the last 13 years . |
| 28 | One further point : the actuarial profession is firmly egalitarian and for many years there have been equal opportunities for women . |
| 29 | She just knew that a basement room was for sitting in , a children 's ward for visiting , and railway stations had been prime targets for being bombed . |
| 30 | The Ypres salient , where since 1914 the Allies had been prime targets for the German guns , had been flattened , leaving only a small salient around Passchendaele itself . |