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 | N. American Star has been available for a few years here in the UK . |
| 3 | This fairy castle in the clouds has been asleep for a hundred years and the briars are beginning to take over . |
| 4 | ‘ And this man , Leonora , has been celibate for a long time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | The Commission on Analytical Nomenclature of IUPAC has been active for a long time in establishing nomenclature for chromatography . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 … . |
| 10 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 11 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It goes without saying that the definition has been responsible for a major literature . |
| 15 | This is a very lethal condition and has been responsible for a great many accidents and much loss of life . |
| 16 | The time out lasts only until the child has stopped the undesirable behaviour and has been quiet for a short time . |
| 17 | I think he 'd been better for a long time on and off |
| 18 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 19 | ‘ She 'd been ill for a long time . |
| 20 | There was a sort of thirstiness about Julia 's immersion in the conversation , as though she 'd been parched for a long time . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd been miserable for a long time . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Well if it came over his house th oh of course , next to the that will have been empty for a few years so |
| 26 | It must have been hard for a short , drunken man to do at the dead of night . ’ |
| 27 | Gasoline would have been ideal for a sudden blaze ; the sealed nuclear drive was useless in that respect . |
| 28 | One day I shall lie beside that grave and the stone will say ‘ Angharad ’ and I shall have been dead for a long time . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I must have been mad for a few hours , and I swept you up in it too . |