Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's Countryside Commission argued that the licence should only have been renewed for a few years during a thorough review of military land requirements . |
| 2 | The main advantage of panels is that they provide feedback over a period of time , which increases the reliability of their responses compared with people who may have been stopped for a brief interview outside their local supermarket , for example . |
| 3 | You would have been forgiven for a knowing smile then , but now acid rain is no laughing matter . |
| 4 | McKoy , having already been called back for one false start , would have been disqualified for a second offence — but he took full advantage of his head-start to pip Jackson for the gold . |
| 5 | It is not known where the Gospel was written but it must have been written for a Jewish Christian community . |
| 6 | This has the appearance of an emergency military operation which may not apply to the other civil defences , but these too must have been commissioned for a specific occasion , but where the emergency may not have been too critical . |
| 7 | Some ore was so intermixed with gangue however , that the concentration by hand was extremely laborious and the mill must have been needed for a long time . |
| 8 | Like the rest of the staff , he wore a burgundy-coloured uniform although , apart from his name tag , it could have been taken for a regular formal suit . |
| 9 | If what he says in the scum book is true then how could we let that happen , surely Blackburn could have been squeezed for a goodly 3 squiddlys . |