Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] been [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now unless you 're a skinhead of the old school , or have been time-warped for twenty years , parkas are not exactly in when it comes to neat threads . |
| 2 | We are now getting close to the flanks of Akka , a seven-peaked mountain that has been visible for four or five days . |
| 3 | We shall continue to put pressure on local authorities with stock that has been empty for more than a year . |
| 4 | It was an argument that had been simmering for two days , and it was clear he was beginning to waver . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He has attempted to come off on several occasions and at the time of interview was undergoing methadone withdrawal and has been heroin-free for two months . ‘ |
| 8 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 9 | This could be the year they do , though they say that around the Cam every year and have been wrong for 15 of the last 16 . |
| 10 | It was later occupied by the Earls of Cromarty and the MacKenzies of Ardloch-Assynt , but has been empty for 200 years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |