Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other important sub-sect to figure prominently in recent biblical scholarship has been familiar for a long time , but under a different name . |
| 2 | ‘ And this man , Leonora , has been celibate for a long time . |
| 3 | The IBOA is very conscious of the fact that this issue has been outstanding for a considerable length of time and it is hoped that the proposals will pave the way for a speedy resolution to the problem . |
| 4 | It has been clear for a long time that where land adjoining the highway is unintentionally entered , i.e. as a result of a car accident , that the plaintiff must prove negligence ( River Wear Commissioners v Adamson ( 1877 ) 2 App Cas 743 ) . |
| 5 | The Commission on Analytical Nomenclature of IUPAC has been active for a long time in establishing nomenclature for chromatography . |
| 6 | As I see him sitting there now , sheltered under a derelict building 's covered way , one which has been empty for a tedious never-ending era , with an unchangeable lifestyle , erected for nothing but with such a prospect for life , if used properly . |
| 7 | Very often I spend long days on my allotment , and cook quite nice dinners of , say , breast of mutton and peas and fruit off the allotment for myself and a [ woman ] friend who has been ill for a long time … . |
| 8 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 9 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 10 | We all know that what he terms his ’ meandering ’ round private Bills has been responsible for a good deal of heartache and not a little management time in British Rail spent trying to meet some of his objections . |
| 11 | Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev is probably one of the most well-known of all Soviet aircraft designers and his OKB has been responsible for a wide variety of aircraft types . |
| 12 | It goes without saying that the definition has been responsible for a major literature . |
| 13 | This is a very lethal condition and has been responsible for a great many accidents and much loss of life . |
| 14 | The time out lasts only until the child has stopped the undesirable behaviour and has been quiet for a short time . |
| 15 | I think he 'd been better for a long time on and off |
| 16 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 17 | ‘ She 'd been ill for a long time . |
| 18 | There was a sort of thirstiness about Julia 's immersion in the conversation , as though she 'd been parched for a long time . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd been miserable for a long time . |
| 20 | The modus vivendi was not signed , but it was promulgated in January 1948 in the minutes of the Combined Policy Committee so as to avoid reference to Congress or to the United Nations , which would have been necessary for a formal international agreement . |
| 21 | The political ground could not have been better for a new middle party and many , including myself , thought that they could well achieve the breakthrough they sought . |
| 22 | Several years ago it would have been incomprehensible for a rational scientist or physician to conclude that myocardial ischaemia might somehow act to protect the heart from necrosis . |
| 23 | It must have been hard for a short , drunken man to do at the dead of night . ’ |
| 24 | Gasoline would have been ideal for a sudden blaze ; the sealed nuclear drive was useless in that respect . |
| 25 | One day I shall lie beside that grave and the stone will say ‘ Angharad ’ and I shall have been dead for a long time . |
| 26 | Malherbe may well have been responsible for a new approach apparent in vol.9 and in most of those from vol.1 onwards , which contain none of the serious distortions outlined above . |
| 27 | In terms of the ‘ demographic transition ’ it is a great puzzle to explain why the response to them was so late in a relatively literate , urbanized , and industrialized society where returns from children do not seem to have been plausible for a long time ( R. M. Smith 1981 ) . |
| 28 | Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 29 | When the silence had been undisturbed for a long , chilly while he crept out of his nest and drew himself gently up the last few yards of broken rock into the long grass and bushes at the edge of the plateau . |
| 30 | Journalist Meredith Oakley , of the Arkansas Gazette in the Clintons ' home state , said : ‘ If America had been ready for a female President she would have run herself . |