Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adj] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chewing and sucking are comforting for the human being and the roots of this go right back into babyhood . |
| 2 | The other important sub-sect to figure prominently in recent biblical scholarship has been familiar for a long time , but under a different name . |
| 3 | N. American Star has been available for a few years here in the UK . |
| 4 | Unlike other higher profile running mothers , returning to training after the birth of a healthy son has been gentle for the 44-year old . |
| 5 | Since it has been weak for the past two months , calling for cheaper money is as irrelevant as wanting trees to blossom in an Arctic winter . |
| 6 | Despite the greater emphasis on additional facilities , it has been necessary for the ordinary financing arrangements to be enlarged by regular increases in quotas . |
| 7 | Mrs Abercrombie has been incontinent for the last year and is unsuitable , now , for one of our houses . |
| 8 | This fairy castle in the clouds has been asleep for a hundred years and the briars are beginning to take over . |
| 9 | Praxis , a 165-person concern founded in 1983 , sees the acquisition as a way of growing its business , which has been flat for the last few years . |
| 10 | ‘ And this man , Leonora , has been celibate for a long time . |
| 11 | The IBOA is very conscious of the fact that this issue has been outstanding for a considerable length of time and it is hoped that the proposals will pave the way for a speedy resolution to the problem . |
| 12 | Doug Williams , a manager in the bank 's insurance group , says the operation has been profitable for the past two years and is already seen as a significant part of Chase 's retail service . |
| 13 | Under the management of CEO Denis Brown , and financially re-structured ( UX No 402 ) , the company has been profitable for the last six quarters and is once again in growth mode , although margins are down and international sales weak . |
| 14 | In fact , the revenue has been stable for the last three years . |
| 15 | It has been traditional for the theoretical chemists to run series of seminars additional to those in Physical Chemistry , and it is expected that the Coulson Professor will wish to continue this . |
| 16 | It has been clear for a long time that where land adjoining the highway is unintentionally entered , i.e. as a result of a car accident , that the plaintiff must prove negligence ( River Wear Commissioners v Adamson ( 1877 ) 2 App Cas 743 ) . |
| 17 | As they listened and watched the news from their former homeland it has been distressing for the five native speakers and difficult to maintain their professional distance from events . |
| 18 | And in his spare time , he has been on-call for the past six years to wear a yellow helmet as a Retained Leading Firefighter with D Division of Strathclyde Fire Brigade based at Ardrossan . |
| 19 | Sharon 's father has been unemployed for the last three years . |
| 20 | The Commission on Analytical Nomenclature of IUPAC has been active for a long time in establishing nomenclature for chromatography . |
| 21 | As I see him sitting there now , sheltered under a derelict building 's covered way , one which has been empty for a tedious never-ending era , with an unchangeable lifestyle , erected for nothing but with such a prospect for life , if used properly . |
| 22 | ‘ The team 's suspension system has been identical for the past 22 Grands Prix , that is since the beginning of the 1992 world championship . |
| 23 | Forty nine of the patients were under 50 at presentation ; this proportion has been constant for the past 10 years . |
| 24 | When the younger counsellor shares these experiences with the older counsellee they are both doing far more than embarking on a process of recalling the past , they are sharing a common heritage which has been formative for the young as well as the old , although less directly so . |
| 25 | Very often I spend long days on my allotment , and cook quite nice dinners of , say , breast of mutton and peas and fruit off the allotment for myself and a [ woman ] friend who has been ill for a long time … . |
| 26 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 27 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 28 | . Just think of this food , clothing , shoes all to come out of my earnings the average of £3.9.9d. a little more sometimes , a few shillings Bonus , and my son has been ill for the past three weeks , whos going to pay the doctors Bill also I have lost time at work through air raid warnings no pay . |
| 29 | French diesel growth , buoyed by tax incentives on fuel , has been steady for the past decade , and spectacular between 1988 and 1991 , when the diesel share of the overall French market doubled . |
| 30 | We all know that what he terms his ’ meandering ’ round private Bills has been responsible for a good deal of heartache and not a little management time in British Rail spent trying to meet some of his objections . |