Example sentences of "'s been [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it 's been available for months now — but I 've been reliably informed that the 3.5-inch drive is going to be re -launched , hopefully with a sizeable catalogue of software titles to accompany it . |
| 2 | Mind you , it 's been good for business , so I suppose I should n't complain . ’ |
| 3 | It 's been dark for ages . |
| 4 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |
| 5 | ‘ Luke , it 's been intolerable for weeks . |
| 6 | It 's been clear for years ( ever since the Hayward exhibitions The Other Story : AfroAsian Artists in Postwar Britain and Art in Latin America met with such dismally insular reponses from most of the critics ) that massive justification is needed for any exhibition that seems ‘ foreign ’ . |
| 7 | But — yes , the poor old thing is rather queer — in fact , she 's been mad for years , so you see now why I needed no special qualifications . |
| 8 | Albert said , ‘ She 's been ill for ages . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's been dead for hours , ’ he commented . |
| 10 | ‘ I told you , he 's been dead for years , ’ the guard snaps . |