Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It certainly seems likely that the interior of the Earth has been hot enough for most of any deeply buried volatiles to have found their way to the surface , particularly if convection extends throughout the mantle . |
| 2 | Er there are two examples along the western route corridor of sites which I do refer to in in the statement , Hildebrand Barracks at , an army camp which er is expected to be vacated in the near future , and Queen Ethelbergers which has been vacant now for for almost two years . |
| 3 | Help has been available here for less than a month , but already word has spread and swelled the starving population from 10,000 to 30,000 . |
| 4 | Prescriptives , an American range that has been available here for 10 years , offers a unique collection of very wearable , natural colours . |
| 5 | San Diego-based TeleSoft Inc says its TeleAda-Exec Ada-oriented real-time executive , is now available for MIPS Computer Systems Inc R3000 target systems : up to now , it has been available only for Motorola 68000 and Intel 80386 targets , but it now works in conjunction with the TeleGen2 Ada VAX-host/R3000-target Cross Development System . |
| 6 | If , for instance , there has been a cold wind blowing for several days and the water temperature has been well down for the time of year , then the wind ceases and the sun brings a sudden warmth to the water , you can almost guarantee that the carp will begin to feed . |
| 7 | It seems as though the period of separation has been long enough for genetic differences to appear within populations but not so long that reproductive barriers have developed . |
| 8 | The other thing that 's been done , erm , and has been ongoing now for some months without too much success , but things seem to be moving a little bit , at least we 're told they are , is that I I pressed for , not really a presentation but a technical meeting , I wanted to get there there product engineers |
| 9 | My mother has been happy there for fifteen years . |
| 10 | 85% of the woodland area is dominated by mature trees , indicating that grazing has been heavy enough for a long time to Prevent sapling recruitment . |
| 11 | ‘ T would have been easy enough for a determined boy to climb the wall and follow them . |
| 12 | I would have been good enough for you , would n't I , Biddy ? ’ |
| 13 | Besides , the sorts of holidays Rose and I usually go on would n't have been up-market enough for George . ’ |
| 14 | This was a technique which had evolved during the 1930s and would hardly have been practical either for Craddock at St Mary 's in 1929 or , perhaps , even for Raistrick in 1931 . |
| 15 | This is a kind of degradation which indicates that when they were formed the Mercurian surface may have been warm enough for it to be slightly plastic . |
| 16 | That summer of 1920 he had conversations which affected his mind and may have been decisive indirectly for his future choice of career . |
| 17 | There was a time in the very early universe when it was so hot that the particle energies would have been high enough for these transformations to take place . |
| 18 | The numerical details of the results may not be generally applicable , since the flow was still developing in the downstream direction at the observing station ( and the Reynolds number may not have been high enough for Ri to be the only parameter ) ; but the results should indicate well the general trends . |
| 19 | Swan compiled a series of almanacs published in Cambridge from 1657 , and may have been responsible too for other titles such as those ostensibly by ‘ Swallow ’ and ‘ Dove ’ . |
| 20 | Copper was found in Crete itself , especially in the Asterousi mountains bordering the Mesara plain , and some may have come from Chrysokamino , near the coast east of Pachyammos , but the demand for metal artefacts is likely to have been high enough for imports of copper to be necessary . |
| 21 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , Walter 's objections had been strong enough for them to yield a little . |
| 23 | It had been tricky enough for him to help the women to whom he had no commitment even though he felt the deepest pity for them , but to help McAllister , whom he loved so dearly — how was he to do that ? |
| 24 | They had been married now for seven years . |
| 25 | Forest had been comfortable enough for most of the first half . |
| 26 | Foinavon had been trained by Tom Dreaper in Ireland for Arkle 's owner Anne , Duchess of Westminster , but while in Dreaper 's charge had been notable mainly for his extraordinarily laid-back demeanour : in a chase at Baldoyle he was in the lead when falling at the third fence , throwing Pat Taaffe well clear , but Foinavon did not bother to scramble to his feet , preferring to remain on the ground and pick quietly at the grass beside him . |
| 27 | Moreover , 55 per cent of the neighbourhood had been resident there for five years or more . |
| 28 | But I 've been stuck here for ages . |
| 29 | They 've been stuck together for hours . ’ |
| 30 | then he comes home , that 's what he likes to do potter around the house , well I do n't want to potter around the house when I 've been stuck in for twelve months . |