Example sentences of "[noun prp] has been [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 | IBIsys has been available for four years and has around 15,000 customers scattered across Italy , Europe , Canada , South Africa and Australia . |
| 5 | Abroad , the idea of Freeports has been current for many years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Most current work concentrates on child sexual abuse , and SSMH has been concerned for some time about the vulnerability of adults with learning disabilities . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | To idealize Cuddesdon has been easy for many . |
| 11 | DDT has been responsible for drastic population declines of many birds of prey , including fish-eating birds such as pelicans . |
| 12 | Maitre Lelièpvre has been married for 60 years , and has a son . |
| 13 | But Anne Rogers whose son James has been unconscious for six years says the ruling just puts pressure on her to do the same thing . |