Example sentences of "[been] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industrial discipline has always been harsher for manual than non-manual workers . |
| 2 | In many rural areas it has therefore been usual for local farm workers to work on the land ‘ man and boy ’ . |
| 3 | It could be improved by including all the results of excavations since 1961 , but this has not been possible for various reasons , the most important of which is that it is no longer the intention to study the results of 367 , but to turn to another event recorded by Ammianus which can be illuminated by this old study and by more recent work . |
| 4 | Since December 1981 it has been possible for non-US residents to hold euro-dollar deposits and obtain euro-dollar loans from international banking facilities within the USA . |
| 5 | It would have been possible for British Aerospace to manufacture the wings and for Rolls-Royce to manufacture the engines . |
| 6 | The Queen 's Press Secretary , Charles Anson , has apologised to the Queen and the Duchess of York for a row after the announcement of the Yorks ' separation which suggested that the Duchess may have been unsuitable for Royal life . |
| 7 | In this House it has been easier for Conservative Members in particular to take a dispassionate view of the matter than was possible for them in the previous Parliament , working as they were under the shadow of a General Election and in the aftermath of a traumatic change in leadership . |
| 8 | To be sure of having bulbs in flower at Christmas , it is advisable to buy specially prepared ones which have been temperature-treated for early flowering . |
| 9 | When Godoy was contemplating patriotism his enemy Ferdinand , who had been intriguing for French support for some months , put all his faith in Napoleon 's endorsement of the revolution of Aranjuez . |
| 10 | Each of the bedrooms has been designed with its own balcony or terrace equipped with garden chairs , and the walls have been sound-proofed for added privacy . |
| 11 | He had broken his leg some time before and so had been unfit for active service till then . |
| 12 | This may have been fine for early disposable e-mail , but as office systems of all kinds have developed into tools to create , store , retrieve and delete the only copy of more substantial record types , it is necessary to institute more organised retention methods . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The effects of the full implementation of the changes would have been substantial for particular areas and many small businesses would have been badly affected . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Their mutual nature also explains why , until 1983 , the Building Societies ' Association ( BSA ) was able to operate a system of ‘ recommended ( interest ) rates ’ , a form of cartel which would have been illegal for public companies . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Police believe he has been responsible for similar crimes in Manchester and Accrington , Lancashire . |
| 19 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
| 20 | The breakthrough came in 1980 , when we received a copy of a letter to Michael Heseltine from a former Labour minister who had been responsible for historic buildings under the previous government . |
| 21 | The man Bleasdale picked to head up its new Charter Train Unit was David Ward , who since 1976 had been responsible for co-ordinating main-line steam operations in conjunction with the Steam Locomotive Owners Association ( SLOA ) . |
| 22 | The military authorities in Baku moved against the Azerbaijan Popular Front on Jan. 24 , arresting 43 leading members and raiding the offices of the National Defence Council , a radical group allied to the Front which had allegedly been responsible for co-ordinating arms supplies to Azerbaijani militants . |
| 23 | Remarks made on Dec. 6 by an APLA spokesperson were widely seen as a " declaration of war " on the white community , and APLA was also believed to have been responsible for various other incidents . |
| 24 | DDT has been responsible for drastic population declines of many birds of prey , including fish-eating birds such as pelicans . |
| 25 | In it , the Welsh Office stated that a solution for Wales had to take into account four major factors which distinguished it from England : the Welsh Office had been responsible for public sector higher education in Wales since 1978 ; the scale of the problem was quite different in that only eight local authorities and a small number of colleges were involved ; the Regional Advisory Council for the whole of Wales , the WJEC , was made up of these local authorities ; and it did not make sense , either on economic or educational grounds , to expect colleges in Wales to provide as wide a range of provision as would be expected in England . |
| 26 | Joxe 's position was taken by Philippe Marchand , previously a Minister-Delegate at the Interior Ministry who had been responsible for Territorial Collectivities and Civil Security . |
| 27 | In the past , the TA has been responsible for massive field hospitals ; the current approach is to make such hospitals much smaller and more flexible , and to increase their number . |
| 28 | Abas , who had retired from the intelligence services in 1988 , was alleged to have been responsible for human rights violations during the period of military rule in 1980-83 . |
| 29 | Howe had argued in 1978 that planning controls had , to a certain extent , been responsible for urban dereliction . |
| 30 | The authorities scored a significant success in the ongoing struggle against the underground movement within the armed forces — which had been responsible for numerous coup attempts against the government of President Corazon Aquino — with the arrest in Manila on Feb. 6 of Lt.-Col. Victor Batac and Maj. Abraham Purugganan . |