Example sentences of "been [adj] for [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
| 2 | It has been possible for many of us , for example , to respond to dance from quite other cultures , and to sculpture , carving and painting not only from other cultures but from other , often very remote , times . |
| 3 | The effect has been that for most of this century Britain has had to hold interest rates higher than has been necessary or desirable . |
| 4 | A mother in her early twenties in Coventry , who has been unemployed for most of the time since leaving school , said : |
| 5 | It can not have been easy for either of them . |
| 6 | It would have been easy for any of them to say : ‘ I 'm swimming for shore , it 's every man for himself ’ sort of thing , but they did n't . |
| 7 | It nevertheless seems clear that the brand of Whiggery we associate with the Walpolean ascendancy of the 1720s and 1730s was very different from that which had been predominant for much of the later-Stuart period . |
| 8 | It has been helpful for many in showing that complex medieval Latin plainchant can be simplified and adapted to modern English texts , whilst retaining the basic musical principles of the eight Gregorian modes . |
| 9 | I could not understand why Hindley , who hated him , would want his company , and I felt sure it would have been better for all of us if Heathcliff had never come back . |
| 10 | Grandmother used to say that if it had been possible to take their personalities and shake them together a bit it would have been better for both of them . |
| 11 | With respect , I shall not give way because my hon. Friend has not been present for much of the debate . |
| 12 | Before turning to the detail of the debate , my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Health , who has been present for most of the debate , has asked me to apologise to the House on her behalf for the fact that she could not stay throughout . |
| 13 | Although Valerie had not been present for any of the discussion among governors and teachers on the appointing committee ? her remarks were not all that far removed from what had transpired . |
| 14 | Rockfall has been responsible for many of the accidents in the range this year , despite the predictable statement from the Chamonix Guides that most were due to incompetence — an inevitable trait of those not climbing with a guide ! |
| 15 | As will be seen in Chapter 6 , however , some of these isolates have been responsible for many of the revolutionary advances in scientific knowledge . |
| 16 | Jane Bywaters , who has been responsible for much of the exhibition , said : ‘ We need to give people information so that they can make up their own minds about food and not be dictated to by the media and media events . ’ |
| 17 | Payne , Whitson and Varga are believed to have been responsible for much of the consortium 's recent sales of its catalogue and anti-NT white paper , a source of revenue . |
| 18 | The Government have been responsible for much of the secrecy surrounding many of their policies . |
| 19 | MGM had been responsible for some of the worst quota quickie outrages , and its new willingness to finance British-based production was the result of legislative changes which brought American companies deeper into British film production . |
| 20 | From its early involvement in the fated Windscale piles , the UKAEA has been responsible for most of the key decisions in the history of British nuclear technology . |
| 21 | They accepted the claims without question and assumed , equally without question , that the detained paramilitary men from the Rathcoole district had been responsible for both of the specified shooting atrocities . |
| 22 | A State Department spokesman said that according to the US-led task force , coalition forces had not been responsible for any of the deaths . |
| 23 | The world recession has been tough for all of us , at home and abroad . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , it 's been tough for all of us . |
| 25 | And if in this new life he was to be alone … well , he had been alone for most of his life . |
| 26 | The last few years have been depressing for those of us trying to move house . |
| 27 | Comment on the dollar had been sombre for much of the year in the train of developments the previous autumn . |
| 28 | This facility has been available for most of the season running on certain days of the week using a vintage bus supplied by the Wilts and Dorset Bus Company . |
| 29 | Economists and economic historians have been interested in measuring poverty and wealth on a per capita basis for some time , and such data have been available for some of the advanced industrial countries for many years . |
| 30 | Neither of us mentioned it : it would have been intolerable for either of us to accept that he was losing his grip . |