Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] for a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 You would have been forgiven for a knowing smile then , but now acid rain is no laughing matter .
3 It is not known where the Gospel was written but it must have been written for a Jewish Christian community .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
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