Example sentences of "been for [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | These little shrubs are also known as ‘ hedgehog ’ hollies , and probably have been for all of the 300 years they have been grown in gardens . |
| 2 | Hardwick 's involvement might have ended there , if it had not been for one of the tradesmen , who addressed a petition to the Company nine months later : his original estimate of £2,514 18 1¼d had left him bearing a loss of £266 6 3¾d . |
| 3 | Tribunals might well have continued to develop without any critical analysis of their impact on the administration of justice , had it not been for one of those incidents of poor administration whose wider implications can not be ignored . |
| 4 | Oddly enough I may never have had an operational tour had it not been for one of these fellow travellers . |
| 5 | Most superior buildings also sustained their Palladian principles , but they became less formal : for example , the central salon , the grand reception room of the Palladian house ( Fig. 14 ) , lost some of its ceremonial identity and might even be occupied by a billiard table ; women were no longer debarred from the library , as they had been for much of the previous century . |
| 6 | Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing . |
| 7 | Genetic reproduction and expansion has , of course , been for millions of years the basis of animal life and its evolutionary change . |
| 8 | The castle walls surround the medieval town , which is still inhabited as it has been for hundreds of years . |
| 9 | Primarily a religious holiday , it has also been for hundreds of years a secular holiday , often with a travelling showmen 's fair visiting the village at the time . |
| 10 | After all , the Elphbergs are the royal family of Ruritania , and have been for hundreds of years . |
| 11 | It 's still as pure as it has been for thousands of years . ’ |
| 12 | For instance , the single person 's National Insurance retirement pension in 1990 is worth 26 per cent more than unemployment benefit , whereas back in 1972 they were paid at the same rate and had been for most of the period since 1948 . |
| 13 | For instance , Yadin Dudai in Jerusalem , amongst others , has exploited the behavioural and biochemical possibilities opened up by mutations amongst fruit flies ; for him and some other neurobiologists Drosophila has become as popular as it has been for most of this century for geneticists . |
| 14 | They are that the public expect Britain to be defended and want Labour to be what it has been for most of its history — a party prepared to provide resources commensurate with defending this country . |
| 15 | The chances that he will get them out of a mire of their own making are as thin as their performances have been for most of the season . |