Example sentences of "have been [adj] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever Keith has been good for a day Mr Smith should watch a programme on the television with him . |
| 2 | According to Professor Ian Fells of Newcastle University , the technology has been available for a while . |
| 3 | Throughout industry this election day , a host of trade unionists are waiting with acute anxiety , nursing their hopes : a Labour victory will enable them to reassert their influence on factories throughout the land , in a manner that has been impossible for a decade . |
| 4 | And now would you believe it 's the other Notts player who had n't scored this season , has been desperate for a goal , Paul . |
| 5 | Although it has been operational for a while , it was only recently that Ski survey visited this slope , to attend a Peter Lightfoot ski course . |
| 6 | So do I. To anyone capable of seeing beyond a county bank balance , it has been clear for a number of years that there is too much limited-overs cricket played by the counties and that the present mix of three and four-day Championship games is not only confusing , especially now that they start on different days of the week , but also unnecessarily exhausting for all involved . |
| 7 | ‘ English football has been dead for a decade now , ’ he added . |
| 8 | He wondered whether he 'd been asleep for a while , or just deep in thought . |
| 9 | Children were fascinated by the ducks and it would have been easy for a toddler to slip through the fence , leaving mum stranded on the other side . |
| 10 | It can not have been easy for a man in his fifties to start afresh as an instrument-maker in London . |
| 11 | Without this control it would have been possible for a Committee with a bondholding minority to make bad decisions to the cost of the Bondholders . |
| 12 | Under these circumstances , it would have been possible for a ship sailing south from Thera to dock at Dia , unload and set sail again for destinations to the east or west . |
| 13 | In certain circumstances it might have been preferable for a beneficiary to have a real action , in which case he would press for interpretation as a legacy . |
| 14 | In earlier days , even that formality might not have been necessary for a contract . |
| 15 | Once upon a time it would have been unthinkable for a band , especially one with such a reputation as Happy Mondays ’ , to apologise for their remarks without some sort of legal action being taken against them . |
| 16 | If we 'd lost we could have gone bottom of the table and that would have been disastrous for a club like Everton . |
| 17 | It must have been distasteful for a man whose principles were always of the very highest . |
| 18 | However , as the amending legislation does not have retrospective effect , traders who , under the High Court interpretation , would have been eligible for a repayment supplement are invited to apply for that supplement . |
| 19 | There was no single set pattern of subjects , but it would have been difficult for a school to neglect totally those regarded as basic and normal . |
| 20 | Without demonstrable concern for their welfare and the active promotion of an identity of interests it would have been difficult for a party of landed and industrial power to retain authority ( for an historical survey of this see McKenzie and Silver 1968 pp 42–73 ) . |
| 21 | Confining ourselves to Vienna and the last few weeks alone , it seems he may also have been responsible for a couple of recent murders of prostitutes in the Altstadt . |
| 22 | Having been dormant for a while they are looking for funds to give Britain 's young people the opportunity to realise their full skiing potential . |
| 23 | Having been airborne for a while and learned that this aircraft demands a gentle touch on the engine controls , the trainee who demonstrates prudent use of reverse derives huge satisfaction from the soft-but-powerful deceleration , bringing the aircraft to a stop in 400 metres . |
| 24 | The laughter had been absent for a while , but it had not withdrawn far from him , the marks of its permanent habitation were still there . |
| 25 | One of them had been unconscious for a while . |
| 26 | If it had been possible for a bird to stop still with surprise in the air , and stay exactly where it was , that rook would have done it then . |
| 27 | But it had been simmering for a couple of years before that . |
| 28 | I had been poorly for a while and could n't eat and the doctor thought it may be appendicitis so he sent me to Darlington Hospital . |
| 29 | As two young married couples they had been close for a time when they lived near Stoke , although Carole had not got on at all well with Amaranth . |
| 30 | She felt heavy-lidded and drowsy , as if she had been asleep for a week . |