Example sentences of "been [adj] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been limited provision for gifted children in the past . |
| 2 | Until then there had been widespread sympathy for Polish aspirations for greater autonomy ‘ and the government had moved cautiously in that direction . |
| 3 | THE PAST three dry years have not been good ones for young trees . |
| 4 | As I use Taskmax and Windows 3 , both of which use SWAP designations , these would have been primary candidates for missing disk space , except in both cases the swap areas are allocated to E : \WIN — a subdirectory on a 3Mb RAM drive . |
| 5 | Unlike the Koran , however , the Bible has long been fair game for spirited literary re-readings . |
| 6 | This had normally been sufficient pretext for direct military intervention , and some action of this kind appears to have been under consideration in December 1980 and again in March 1981 . |
| 7 | Rising stress claims have also been bad news for big employers like Wells Fargo Bank , the California institution which echoes back to the stage coach era . |
| 8 | The 1980s have been bad years for lone mothers , as for so many others . |