Example sentences of "they have [adv] been [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've both been free for years . |
| 2 | They had probably been married for some thirty-odd years , perhaps longer . |
| 3 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 4 | They have also been responsible for many symposia and meetings for specialists in the field of venereology . |
| 5 | a letter from a grant awarding authority confirming eligibility for a mandatory award ( students not receiving an award , e.g. those repeating a year , should provide evidence that they have previously been eligible for an award ) ; |
| 6 | Does the Foreign Secretary agree that an international conference as proposed simply would not succeed unless Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities admit that they have both been responsible for atrocities and extremism ? |
| 7 | None of your so-called friends look as if they have exactly been renowned for their brains , do they ? ’ |
| 8 | 88open has decided to offer its system and application compatibility test suites — ITS/88 , AVS/88 and ACT/88 — to industry consortia and companies : although to date they have only been available for Motorola Inc 88000 RISC based systems , interested parties would presumably customise the sets for other architectures . |