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 Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers .
4 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 .
5 Vibrational excitation has only been reported for a few simple molecules in the gas phase , as shown in Fig. 5.8 , and vibrational structure may also be seen on some bands arising from electronic transitions .
6 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 . ’
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Reportedly Oracle 7 , Sybase , Ingres and Informix have all been tuned for the 1000 .
12 LIFESPAN can be set to automatically offline modules which have not been accessed for a configurable latency period .
13 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 .
14 Alternatively , an automatic offline requestor ( STOREMAN ) is available to select modules which have not been accessed for a configurable period of time .
15 There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time .
16 That means programs have still not been written for a whole range of complex new tasks that GPs will be asked to do .
17 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 .
18 The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage .
19 In general , estate development has not been studied for the pre-Conquest period — there are not enough documents and the field evidence is enigmatic .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 The trophy for the ladies open has not been engraved for the last few years .
24 After all , in 1,189 densely-printed pages , space has not been found for a single illustration .
25 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 ’ .
26 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 .
27 Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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