Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donald and Sheila Baughan had been married for 20 years . |
| 2 | St Wulstans had been empty for 4 years . |
| 3 | But in the aftermath of the war , Robertson and Alan Sked were responsible for a political blunder which put them in the news again . |
| 4 | Mrs Ireland had been married for thirty-nine years . |
| 5 | But while I was house-sitting for Nassim , Fenella had been cat-sitting for me . |
| 6 | Like Krakatoa , Mt Pelee had been active for quite a time before disaster struck . |
| 7 | ‘ Elsie and Simon had been married for six years or so when she disappeared . |
| 8 | During his four-year term the police had acquired significantly more political and executive power , and Badr had been responsible for the arrests of thousands of Moslem militants and alleged leftists . |
| 9 | Anyway , Isobel had been keen for him to tell both his parents , and her advice had been sound all through . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Ty Fach had been dead for a long time . |
| 12 | Owen had been conscious for some time of growing movement in the courtyard below . |
| 13 | Old John Knox had been ill for a long time and , two years after I joined the firm , he was told that he must retire . |
| 14 | Klein had been responsible for a controversial sale to the Daimler-Benz engineering firm of city-owned land in central Berlin , and had co-operated closely with the Treuhand agency responsible for administering and selling-off state-owned industrial property in eastern Germany . |
| 15 | Sam had been responsible for the departure of her mother 's lover , but Pam had not complained openly , since it put all of them in a bad light : her lover had been revealed as pusillanimous , Sam as a harridan and herself as a person of no control or strength of will . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A Whig tract of 1711 argued that " The Revolution was almost entirely owing to them [ Tories ] " , whilst the Nonconformist Daniel Defoe repeatedly replied to the charge made by High Churchmen in Anne 's reign that the Dissenters had been responsible for the murder of Charles , by reminding them what they " did to his Son " : " if they will go back to 48 , and provoke us to Recriminate , by telling us of Killing the Father ; let us bring them back to 88 , and tell them of Deposing the Son , and sending him Abroad to beg his Bread " . |
| 18 | Elizabeth and Harry had been married for ten years , both for a second time . |
| 19 | Mr Malik had been keen for it to ‘ bridge the gap between the musical traditions of East and West ’ , and the result was something that sounded suspiciously like the soundtrack from a commercial advertising Singapore Airlines . |
| 20 | The Brockwells had been present for all the evidence at the Palais de Justice in Paris . |
| 21 | According to the coroner 's report , 27 year old Jeremy Parkinson had been dead for only 48 hours when he was found . |
| 22 | Paula had been dry for almost a year before the taxi fracas . |
| 23 | Sara had been glad for her great-aunt , daughter of a famous Edwardian horse-breeder , and in her day a breeder herself , to have this nostalgic reminder of the past . |
| 24 | Kandersteg and the hotel Victoria combined are ideal for families with young children . |
| 25 | Franjiyah claimed that Geaga had been responsible for the assassination in 1978 of his father Tony Franjiyah — something which Geaga denied . |
| 26 | They had seen no tracks and sighted nothing in the land below them , which Ratagan said was unusual for deer were not uncommon here as well as hill foxes and hares . |
| 27 | After the war , Elliott had been responsible for the interrogation of the Russian spy Kim Philby before he defected . |
| 28 | James had stayed behind and Lewis had been sullen for the half-hour or so they 'd been walking before suddenly announcing he wanted to be alone . |
| 29 | Nor was there any reason to believe that the Conservatives would support an Asquith government when Asquith had been responsible for turning them out of office . |
| 30 | ( Guyana had been ineligible for IMF aid since 1985 — see p. 33977 . ) |