Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Today in Swindon , I saw 24 houses in a main street — they were attractive properties — all of which had been empty for 20 years . |
| 32 | They were also helped into their new home by a team of volunteers who took on the task of cleaning the offices which had been empty for some time . |
| 33 | 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 ) . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | There are 5,733 empty council houses , almost 2,000 of which have been empty for more than a year . |
| 36 | To be sure of having bulbs in flower at Christmas , it is advisable to buy specially prepared ones which have been temperature-treated for early flowering . |
| 37 | All too often , we are called to see foals which have been ill for 24 hours or more and by that stage they can be very sick indeed . |
| 38 | The research project will investigate these evolving patterns in a life course context to describe the experiences of different groups over time , and to attempt to explain the factors which have been responsible for these changes . |
| 39 | Before turning to the detail of the debate , my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Health , who has been present for most of the debate , has asked me to apologise to the House on her behalf for the fact that she could not stay throughout . |
| 40 | The change of status , too , from ‘ wife , to ‘ widow ’ is felt very keenly by most women as a loss of considerable significance , which indeed it is ; for without a partner , a woman who has been married for some years may , unless she already has well developed interests outside her home , find that her social life is suddenly transformed in a very disturbing way . |
| 41 | The latter probably included correspondence with Colonel Filipović in Belgrade , who has been active for many years in agitating for firmer action |
| 42 | By the death , at the age of 66 , of Mr. Philip Henry Thomas which took place after a long illness , on Saturday the 18th instant , at his residence at 13 Rusham Road , Battersea loses a citizen who has been active for 40 years in championing the cause of Liberalism in this borough … . |
| 43 | District authorities in Devon banned the jump in the county because of fears over the type of crane to be used , said Mr Collier , who has been blind for 22 years . |
| 44 | District authorities in Devon banned the jump in the county because of fears over the type of crane to be used , said Mr Collier , who has been blind for 22 years . |
| 45 | 9.18–26 ; Luke 8.40–56 ) he heals a woman who has been unclean for many years because of a flow of blood . |
| 46 | Jane Bywaters , who has been responsible for much of the exhibition , said : ‘ We need to give people information so that they can make up their own minds about food and not be dictated to by the media and media events . ’ |
| 47 | She keeps her boyfriend , who has been unemployed for four years . |
| 48 | A mother in her early twenties in Coventry , who has been unemployed for most of the time since leaving school , said : |
| 49 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 50 | ‘ She has been unwell for some time ; she is liable to spells of nervous depression . |
| 51 | It was impossible to know whether he still believed she 'd been responsible for that . |
| 52 | ‘ We always wanted to sponsor a guide dog and by the time you 've been married for 50 years you 've got everything you need and there 's no point in getting presents you do n't really need , ’ said Mr Lea . |
| 53 | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself . |
| 54 | She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away . |
| 55 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 56 | She had been married for 19 years and had four children ( aged between 12 and 17 years ) . |
| 57 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 58 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
| 59 | She had been amenorrhoeic for six months before her first attendance at this hospital . |
| 60 | At ten to seven she had been ready for twenty minutes . |