Example sentences of "[been] [adj] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 91 | They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 92 | She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away . |
| 93 | Middle management has been vulnerable for some time . |
| 94 | An example of this is the case of a lady of forty-five who attended the clinic with neuralgia which had been present for some years . |
| 95 | These complications are only likely to set in if the infection has been present for some time , and this is only likely to happen if the infection is an asymptomatic one . |
| 96 | Too numerous to list here individually , most were of early-1980s , vintage and had not been airworthy for some time . |
| 97 | Human interference has often been responsible for such introductions . |
| 98 | The range was designed in the USA under the watchful eye of Chris Kelley , the director of Artist Relations for Hoshino and who has in the past been responsible for such marriages as Joe Satriani and Steve Vai with their custom Ibanez guitars . |
| 99 | They have also been responsible for many symposia and meetings for specialists in the field of venereology . |
| 100 | What quirk of the feminine psyche had been responsible for that decision ? |
| 101 | In practice , this mistake has been responsible for much confusion in the discussion of syntactic possibilities and their means of expression . |
| 102 | This is the last bond to be actively redeemed until 1957 when a minor flurry of interest in activating redemption might have been responsible for some bond buying-in activity , although the Club waited until 1983 for the total buying-in to take place . |
| 103 | Robin Cranko thinks that one of them , if not both , must have been responsible for some branches of the Cranko family whom he came across during his researches . |
| 104 | The newcomers , of course , have not been responsible for this loss of rural autonomy — indeed , they have been equally affected by the growing remoteness of decision-making . |
| 105 | This appears to have been responsible for several stunts and was implicated in the general increase of physical violence against Jews in the East End in the middle 1930s . |
| 106 | The research project will investigate these evolving patterns in a life course context to describe the experiences of different groups over time , and to attempt to explain the factors which have been responsible for these changes . |
| 107 | If you have been sedentary for some time and are not used to physical exertion , then you should begin slowly , walking for no more than 20 minutes every other day , at a pace which stretches you but does not overtire you . |
| 108 | The tendency for international capital flows to increase has been evident for some time , and was causing problems for central bank intervention in the final years of the Bretton Woods system . |
| 109 | In the US this trend has been evident for some time . |
| 110 | the reduction of contracting disciplines , as measured by the relative size of the literature , and as has been evident for some time in religion and philosophy ; and |
| 111 | The fact is , sir , that I have been alone for several years now . |
| 112 | But then they had n't been alone for any time before . |
| 113 | Had local authorities still the influence over schools which was diminished by the Education Reform Act , it would have been commonplace for each authority to compare the performance of its own policies and of its own schools with a national standard . |
| 114 | So far as education is concerned , it is known that the government has been concerned for some time about an alleged willingness on the part of some teachers to bring the question of homosexuality out into the open in a way that seeks to normalise it as a form of human relationship . |
| 115 | Most current work concentrates on child sexual abuse , and SSMH has been concerned for some time about the vulnerability of adults with learning disabilities . |
| 116 | Does the Minister recognise that those of us who are friends of Kenya have been concerned for some time that that country has been slipping from the flagship position of good and open government in Africa ? |
| 117 | The , the thing is that I 've been concerned for some time when it 's finally helped , f f found for next month , because |
| 118 | The national park has been concerned for some time about the volume of heavy lorries using roads through the park . |
| 119 | The board has been concerned for some years about the possible impact of excessive dependence on coal — used for 80 per cent of electricity currently generated — if developments in the domestic or international coal market push prices up rapidly . |
| 120 | Thus a verdict at an inquest of natural causes aggravated by lack of care has been available for many years . |