Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [pers pn] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 2 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
| 3 | During the previous six months I had been able to keep a more watchful eye on the whereabouts of the elusive Charlie , thanks to the help of a young officer Daphne had introduced me to who worked in the War Office . |
| 4 | For the last six years he has been assistant curate at St. Barnabas ' Church in Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , and he will be instituted as vicar of Saltburn in July . |
| 5 | Six weeks I 've been ill . |
| 6 | For seven or eight years I had been aware of a growing numbness , first in the muscles of my right leg and later in those of my left , for which no doctor or specialist could find any adequate explanation . |
| 7 | ‘ We were granted ownership of the building in March and in just three months we have been able to get it ready . ’ |
| 8 | And for the first time in nearly three years she had been able to talk about Martin . |
| 9 | For three years I 've been wary of deep water . |
| 10 | ‘ I am really pleased that over the last three years I have been able to show that part-time working can work without any difficulty . |
| 11 | For the previous three years he had been busy transcribing the forgotten and unpublished portions of the Shah Jehan Nama , the court chronicle of Shah Jehan . |
| 12 | However , for the last three seasons they 've been disappointed — unless like me , they were lucky enough to chance a late holiday and hit the best powder of the season . |
| 13 | Sixteen month you 'd been married . |
| 14 | Sixteen month you 'd been married . |
| 15 | I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays ! |
| 16 | At the same time she could n't help but wonder about the fact that in the space of twelve months he had been involved in three relationships , Anna Wallace , Amanda Knatchbull and herself , any one of which could have ended in marriage . |
| 17 | For the past nine months it has been involved in a nightly Royal Mail operation out of the airport . |
| 18 | Nineteen sixty one , er , our anniversary was a few weeks ago , twenty one years we 've been married , but er |
| 19 | One moment she had been happier than she 'd ever been in her life , the next she was alone again . |
| 20 | Hell , in one day I 've been jealous of a sour-faced moron like Dave Fernie and of a little tub of lard like Marcus Felstead ! |
| 21 | The assumption behind this critical selectiveness is confirmed by the one exception I have been able to find , in a brief , perverse and witty account of the English novel composed by Ford Madox Ford for American students . |
| 22 | Over the last twenty years I have been active in our hobby , I have lost count of the number of detectors I have used . |
| 23 | For 15 years it has been illegal in the U8A to produce a new car without a three-way catalytic converter . |
| 24 | For almost two months he 'd been worried for his son . |
| 25 | My Lords i in the eighteen months I 've been privileged to be a Member of Lordships House , I 've often asked myself what our functions are . |
| 26 | In the two years they 've been married they have only had one day together . |
| 27 | For the past two years she has been responsible for the rights department of Hachette 's children 's book imprints in Paris . |
| 28 | Christophe Lázar : For the past two years I have been active expanding Colnaghi 's presence in Europe , Asia and South America . |
| 29 | That does n't mean he 's going to draw it , he 's actually drawing on average this guy around a thousand , hundred pounds , one thousand two hundred pounds he 's been thousand pounds , but he 's actually drawing one thousand two . |
| 30 | His restlessness was deep rooted , ever since he had passed the two boys he had been aware of a more profound , a more stark malaise in his condition . |