Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have been [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rural groups have been vulnerable for a long time . |
| 2 | Taking the wrong course has been expensive for us all . |
| 3 | ‘ English football has been dead for a decade now , ’ he added . |
| 4 | The old lady had been deaf for years and had what she called a ‘ thing-gummyjig ’ on her telephone receiver which was intended to help her hear her callers more clearly . |
| 5 | The Scottish Council has been active for some years in bringing employers and school pupils much closer together and this important aspect of our work has expanded considerably in recent times . |
| 6 | The Scottish Council has been active for some years in bringing employers and school pupils closer together . |
| 7 | The theoretical proposal had been public for several years . |
| 8 | What is beyond question is that British membership has been good for the EEC ; not only do British taxpayers and consumers bear the cost of the CAP , the CFP , the Common External Tariff and the Cohesion budget , but Britain constitutes an artificial captive market for the exporters of the Eleven . |
| 9 | What quirk of the feminine psyche had been responsible for that decision ? |
| 10 | The " Daily Telegraph " had no " duty " , in this sense , to publish mere rumours and suspicions that a public servant had been responsible for losing millions of pounds of public money . |
| 11 | People within the health and social services had been aware for years of the patients ' accusations , but nothing was done . |
| 12 | Since April last year Historic Scotland has been responsible for the protection of historic wrecks within a 12-mile radius of Scotland . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The other important sub-sect to figure prominently in recent biblical scholarship has been familiar for a long time , but under a different name . |
| 15 | In most languages with writing systems alphabetic fingerspelling has been available for over two hundred years . |
| 16 | Grant Fox , for instance , was sorely troubled by the allegations that he had been part of an Auckland spearhead which had had Shelford removed , and that his personal failings had been responsible for the indifferent play in Argentina and the loss of the Sydney Test to Australia . |
| 17 | For the Edwardian Conservatives in particular , and British Conservatism in general , similar attention has been desirable for some time . |
| 18 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 19 | The Harrow , Middlesex-based firm has been responsible for designing , re-engineering , coding and implementing IBM 's Customer Information Control System , CICS , on top of the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment and Transarc Corp 's Encina transaction processing services to run on RS/6000s under AIX Version 3.2 . |
| 20 | One patient died of disseminated colonic cancer after three years ( see Table I , patient E ) , the three previous complete annual colonoscopies had been negative for dysplasia . |
| 21 | In all cases , however , Standard English has been present for long enough to have had a substantial impact on the language practices of the communities in question . |
| 22 | Fixed-price contracts have been normal for production contracts but on occasion this has led to claims that excess profits have been made and in a few cases repayment of the excess has been enforced . |
| 23 | The national park has been concerned for some time about the volume of heavy lorries using roads through the park . |
| 24 | Assume as before that national income has been constant for several time periods at £1,000 , and that autonomous investment is initially equal to £500 . |
| 25 | This august body had been responsible for placing the bench we were now sitting on . |
| 26 | Synthetic brushes have been available for some time and seemed to be the ideal solution , but in the past brushes could be too soft to control well , or too hard to be fully responsive , limiting paint delivery and with little spring , performing as a poor cousin to natural hair and bristle . |
| 27 | The twice-married 70-year-old star had been ill for three years . |
| 28 | And some of the authoritarian oligarchies had been good for economic growth — as in Brazil in the 1970s , or Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew — while others , like the Greek colonels , had not . |
| 29 | He had been best man at their wedding — a formidable pre-nuptial agreement had been necessary for that capitulation — and had carried out his duties with a mixture of incompetence , vulgarity and irreverence which , as she occasionally enjoyed telling Norman , had spoilt for her the memory of her big day . |
| 30 | Whilst scholars debate how far economic changes have been responsible for breaking up these traditional arrangements , there is evidence that the idea persists that this form of joint household is an ideal which people would put into practice if they could ( Benedict , 1976 ) . |