Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ When I went to see him , he had been very ill for three years . |
| 32 | The Scots had been entirely unprepared for this , thus far into their own country , and were engaged in herding the great herd of Gilsland cattle across the Dornock Water 's estuary , some one side of the river , some the other . |
| 33 | An economy that had been virtually self-contained for 20 years after 1945 suddenly found itself severely tested by international competition . |
| 34 | Play was end to end in the first half , but catching Bicester cold after a player had been down injured for some time , Wantage took the lead on thirty five minutes , when Andy Cooper brilliantly volleyed home a touch on from Jamie Alexander for a one nil half time lead . |
| 35 | Everyone had been waiting on tenterhooks on the platform , as they had been technically ready for more than a day . |
| 36 | Mansur Rajih had been politically active for most of his adult life . |
| 37 | I 've I 've been really housebound for five |
| 38 | Almost all the bogs have been extensively peat-cut for domestic fuel . |
| 39 | The plague may not , however , have been solely responsible for urban decay , as there are few signs of the expansion of suburbs in English towns between 1300 and the end of the Middle Ages , and at Oxford there are references to houses falling into decay as early as 1340 . |
| 40 | As an employer , you are obliged to pay a minimum level of sick pay to most employees , aged 16 or over , who have been off sick for four or more days in a row . |
| 41 | Epicontinental seas have been biologically significant for several reasons . |
| 42 | For Marxists , petty bourgeois producers seem destined to be replaced by monopoly capital , while the advantages rendered by economies of scale have been sufficiently impressive for neo-classical economists to stress the unreality of atomistic competition . |
| 43 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |
| 44 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |
| 45 | It 's been particularly bleak for many workers . |
| 46 | There 's been very little for United fans to cheer about this season . |
| 47 | He does n't , you know , talk about all the hardships she 's had , and it 's been very difficult for all tho , he is absolutely straight but he still deals with her in love and compassion ! |