Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] been [adj] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall continue to put pressure on local authorities with stock that has been empty for more than a year . |
| 2 | Suppressed maternalism it may be , but her passion shines through and she can recall in detail some animals , particularly dogs , that have been dead for half a century and some that did n't even belong to her . |
| 3 | The man accused of murdering an Open University lecturer was taken ill and has been absent for most of the second day of his trial . |
| 4 | As has been normal for most organized communities that are not based on a money economy , African society was based on slavery ( in the sense of the life-long ownership of human beings who could be traded ) , which sometimes involved plantation work or even being used as a human sacrifice : there is no calculus to compare the disadvantages of local slavery with those of being taken across the Atlantic and used as plantation or mining labour . |
| 5 | the reduction of contracting disciplines , as measured by the relative size of the literature , and as has been evident for some time in religion and philosophy ; and |