Example sentences of "[noun prp] have be [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICI has been responsible for many major developments in acrylics since the 1930s . |
| 2 | Benjamin Libet of the University of California at San Francisco has been responsible for two sets of experiments which are often cited as crucial evidence in the debate about the relationship between brain and mind . |
| 3 | Depo-Provera has been available for short-term use in Britain since 1978 . |
| 4 | Donald and Sheila Baughan had been married for 20 years . |
| 5 | St Wulstans had been empty for 4 years . |
| 6 | IBIsys has been available for four years and has around 15,000 customers scattered across Italy , Europe , Canada , South Africa and Australia . |
| 7 | Abroad , the idea of Freeports has been current for many years . |
| 8 | Mrs Ireland had been married for thirty-nine years . |
| 9 | ‘ Elsie and Simon had been married for six years or so when she disappeared . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Wallis was critically afflicted with consumption and William Foster , in a letter published in Peck 's Annals , claimed that Wallis had been sick for thirteen years . |
| 12 | Owen had been conscious for some time of growing movement in the courtyard below . |
| 13 | Handel had been dead for five years , but his music was still enormously popular ; J C Bach ( whose concert series run by himself and his compatriot Carl Friedrich Abel was one of the highlights of musical life at the time ) was also music master to the queen and a member of her private chamber band : as such he was responsible for organizing elaborate concerts at court . |
| 14 | Elizabeth and Harry had been married for ten years , both for a second time . |
| 15 | ACT ! , developed by Contact Software , is both the US 's and the UK 's best selling contact software package , and PC and network variants tailored to the UK have been available for some time . |
| 16 | Most current work concentrates on child sexual abuse , and SSMH has been concerned for some time about the vulnerability of adults with learning disabilities . |
| 17 | Gooch has been unwell for several weeks , playing in the first Test at Calcutta with a chest infection that should have ruled him out , missing the three-day match at Vishakhapatnam because he still felt weak , and then pulling out of the second Test at Madras after his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn . |
| 18 | The Brockwells had been present for all the evidence at the Palais de Justice in Paris . |
| 19 | Britain has been responsible for 52 per cent of all inventions worldwide in the past 30 years , according to a survey conducted by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry . |
| 20 | To idealize Cuddesdon has been easy for many . |
| 21 | DDT has been responsible for drastic population declines of many birds of prey , including fish-eating birds such as pelicans . |
| 22 | William and Kate have been married for nine years and known each other for sixteen . |
| 23 | The Soviet Union has now been a socialist state for more than sixty years : many countries in Western Europe have been socialist for more than a quarter century ; and Asia has not only the Chinese experiment in socialism but other countries in Asia , Africa and the Americas have experimented with socialism . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Stuntman David Watson , who with partner Joe Wadham had been responsible for spectacular scenes in films such as Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines , was supposed to do this hair-raising sequence , but Crawford insisted on doing it himself . |
| 26 | Then , late one afternoon when Chola had been ill for three consecutive days , Kalchu asked the dhāmi once again to call the god to the shrine on the roof of his own house . |
| 27 | Counillor and Mrs Woodhead have been married for 39 years . |
| 28 | Colette and Bernard had been married for fifteen years . |
| 29 | The Upchers did not want anything elaborate , and although Repton had been famous for castellated picturesqueness , here was the perfect chance to create simple neo-classicism , which was all he secretly cared for and the conventional essence of those first twenty years of the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | Elizabeth had been unprepared for such a dramatic change . |