Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb base] been for " in BNC.

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1 A period of two and a half years of which fifteen months have been for construction .
2 The German study spells out how catastrophic the last 15 years have been for the now emasculated British industry .
3 And would it be impolite of me to enquire exactly where you and the other officers have been for the last eight hours ? ’
4 Wintering birds favour coastal farmland and marshes and a high proportion of recent records have been for the Selsey peninsular , the Beachy Head area , and from Rye to the Midrips .
5 If two systems have been for a period of time in dynamical isolation from each other , then a measurement on the first system can produce no real change in the second .
6 Well what would the original Gaelic have been for that ?
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