Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Croce , a noted Philadelphia cancer researcher , has only been collecting for the past ten years , specialising in Italian seventeenth-century paintings and drawings . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 5 | The biggest change has come within the ranks of the SDLP where Martin Bradley , Mark Durkan , Kathleen McCloskey , Margaret McCartney and Wilfred White have all been elected for the first time and Pat Ramsey makes a return to the Council chamber having reclaimed the seat he lost in 1989 . |
| 6 | Reportedly Oracle 7 , Sybase , Ingres and Informix have all been tuned for the 1000 . |
| 7 | Dreams came true in many ways ; some made strokes which had not been played for the last 20 years , others took catches and some ran threes . |
| 8 | In general , estate development has not been studied for the pre-Conquest period — there are not enough documents and the field evidence is enigmatic . |
| 9 | That means that the product has not been optimised for the 486 or Pentium , and wo n't take account of Pentium features such as the dual pipeline , or work around some of the clock cycle quirks that emerged in the 486 post technical documentation . |
| 10 | That means that the product has not been optimised for the 80486 or for Pentium , and wo n't take account of new Pentium features such as the dual pipeline , or work around some of the clock cycle quirks that emerged in the behaviour of the 80486 post technical documentation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The trophy for the ladies open has not been engraved for the last few years . |
| 13 | On 2 February 1799 Parson Woodforde , by then in Norfolk , wrote in his diary : ‘ Such severe weather has not been known for the last sixty years till the present ’ . |
| 14 | Bert Brown , the consortium 's sales and marketing director , said : ‘ It is true that the miners have not been paid for the last seven weeks . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Now pressures are such that consent has finally been given for the southern by-pass , a scheme first proposed in 1916 . |
| 17 | ESRC funding enabled the research team to classify and analyse biographical material that had already been collected for the 1900-39 cohorts through record search and postal questionnaire for the 1940-67 cohorts . |
| 18 | Arróspide [ see also p. 34182 ] was at the time in a Paris prison awaiting trial for offences committed in France , and his extradition had already been sought for the 1987 supermarket bombing in Barcelona [ for which see p. 35851 ] . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Glenda Jackson had already been approached for the female lead . |
| 22 | A Granada TV spokesman in Manchester said : ‘ The majority of Lynne 's scenes have already been filmed for the next few weeks . |
| 23 | But for Seldes too it was ‘ the times ’ that had largely been to blame for the infantile nature of the movies . |
| 24 | While this has just been confirmed for the next 10 years , until recently there was some doubt as to whether it would be renewed . |
| 25 | Léonie had just been kissed for the first time by a boy . |
| 26 | Papillon has just been recaptured for the fourth time . |
| 27 | Three Samoans who played in the World Cup — Tagaloa , Bunce and Steve Bachop — have just been picked for the All Black trials . |
| 28 | His bullying tactics had always been reserved for the weaker sex , Virginia guessed bitterly . |
| 29 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 30 | The reduction in the mid-latitude ozone maximum has also been noted for the Antarctic and the overall figure is reminiscent of the Southern Hemisphere spring total ozone distribution , albeit with an ozone hole of smaller total area . |