Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you 've only been skiing for a short while . |
| 2 | Croce , a noted Philadelphia cancer researcher , has only been collecting for the past ten years , specialising in Italian seventeenth-century paintings and drawings . |
| 3 | Naturally , VI would rather sell X-Designer than enhance rival products , but in the US where X-Designer has only been sold for the past year , rival products have a much stronger hold and the separation of the Graph Widgets enables a toehold into these accounts for the VI sales force . |
| 4 | I believe she used to be so reluctant about marrying people because marriage is important to her , she 's only been waiting for the right one . ’ |
| 5 | Some kinds of long-term memory seem to endure indefinitely even though they have apparently been lost for a long time , e.g. an older person may find it easy to recall childhood events with great clarity even though there has been no use of the material for fifty or sixty years . |
| 6 | For years before that , however , football enthusiasts in Glasgow had long been agitating for an international match against the deaf footballers of England , without success . |
| 7 | LIFESPAN can be set to automatically offline modules which have not been accessed for a configurable latency period . |
| 8 | This section describes those facilities available within LIFESPAN to transfer modules to offline storage automatically when they have not been accessed for a configurable period of time . |
| 9 | Alternatively , an automatic offline requestor ( STOREMAN ) is available to select modules which have not been accessed for a configurable period of time . |
| 10 | There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time . |
| 11 | That means programs have still not been written for a whole range of complex new tasks that GPs will be asked to do . |
| 12 | The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage . |
| 13 | In general , estate development has not been studied for the pre-Conquest period — there are not enough documents and the field evidence is enigmatic . |
| 14 | Further promoter deletions have not been analysed for the murine NF-L gene to permit a functional comparison to be made of the minimal regulatory sequences that are needed for neuronal-specific expression in human and mouse genes . |
| 15 | After all , in 1,189 densely-printed pages , space has not been found for a single illustration . |
| 16 | Yet even though in my part Welsh has not been spoken for a long time , and indeed the natives have even forgotten the Welsh pronunciation of our Celtic place-names , it would not cross my neighbours ' minds that just living there makes me Welsh . |
| 17 | Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show . |
| 18 | London Ambulance Service workers claimed the system crash last October led to people 's deaths , but yesterday 's document said an examination of 26 cases considered by coroners ' courts showed the LAS had not been blamed for a single death . |
| 19 | Mr Wormwood 's fine crop of black hair was now a dirty silver , the colour this time of a tightrope-walker 's tights that had not been washed for the entire circus season . |
| 20 | Now pressures are such that consent has finally been given for the southern by-pass , a scheme first proposed in 1916 . |
| 21 | Agreements there have generally been concluded for an indefinite term and ( linked with this ) no ‘ peace obligation ’ has arisen by the application of the agreement , in contrast to Germany . |
| 22 | The Florios worked the room with ease and self-confidence and by the time they had reached the podium an aide to the candidate was saying that almost a million dollars had already been raised for the Democratic campaign . |
| 23 | The Redcar crew have already been honoured for a daring rescue earlier this year . |
| 24 | This can be taken to mean that the work has already been printed for a limited number of people by private gift or circulation , but has not been published in the sense that it has been offered to the general public . |
| 25 | In fact , stage dates have already been estimated for the Cretaceous , with the startling conclusion that of the 67 million years attributed to the twelve stages of the system , nearly 20 million are given to a single stage-the Cenomanian . |
| 26 | Moving right up to date , Johnny is now signed to Virgin 's Point Blank label , and his first release — titled ‘ Let Me In ’ — has already been nominated for a Grammy award . |
| 27 | Glenda Jackson had already been approached for the female lead . |
| 28 | This is , in effect , what had already been known for a considerable time as a ‘ cantata ’ for six voices , four viole , two violini , and string and keyboard continuo , in four strongly contrasted sections ( solo and tutti ) preceded by a sinfonia . |
| 29 | But for Seldes too it was ‘ the times ’ that had largely been to blame for the infantile nature of the movies . |
| 30 | like I 've just said , I 've just been speaking for a whole lesson , my voice is just I 've got to talk to you to explain what we 're doing , so let's quietly |