Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] for an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 2 | Returning to NAMAS , A. Lally ( MAFF , CVL , Weybridge ) illustrated how accreditation had been obtained for an environmental radiochemical analysis laboratory . |
| 3 | Once patients had been seen for an initial consultation , half were treated within five weeks and 80 per cent within six months , she added . |
| 4 | The alliance is a blow to the ruling Parti Socialiste of President François Mitterrand , which had been hoping for an electoral alliance with the Green parties . |
| 5 | Police violence against members of racial minorities became a national issue following the widespread broadcast on television of an amateur video showing white Los Angeles policemen brutally beating a black man who had been stopped for an alleged driving offence on March 3 . |
| 6 | His mind had been prepared for an impossible radiance and it had taken time to absorb a new set of signals . |
| 7 | There is nothing at all romantic about this sympathy for the underdog : as a midshipman , we are told , Aubrey had been disrated for an unsavoury escapade and had served a long period on the lower deck , an experience which he never forgot . |
| 8 | I suspected that he was hoping to hear that the senator had been arranging for an illicit love affair on board Wavebreaker . |