Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] has been [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking the wrong course has been expensive for us all . |
| 2 | ‘ English football has been dead for a decade now , ’ he added . |
| 3 | Forty nine of the patients were under 50 at presentation ; this proportion has been constant for the past 10 years . |
| 4 | The IBOA is very conscious of the fact that this issue has been outstanding for a considerable length of time and it is hoped that the proposals will pave the way for a speedy resolution to the problem . |
| 5 | The Scottish Council has been active for some years in bringing employers and school pupils much closer together and this important aspect of our work has expanded considerably in recent times . |
| 6 | The Scottish Council has been active for some years in bringing employers and school pupils closer together . |
| 7 | What is beyond question is that British membership has been good for the EEC ; not only do British taxpayers and consumers bear the cost of the CAP , the CFP , the Common External Tariff and the Cohesion budget , but Britain constitutes an artificial captive market for the exporters of the Eleven . |
| 8 | In fact this shift has been visible for some time and seems at present to be increasing . |
| 9 | Mr McNally : ‘ This investigation has been ongoing for five months . |
| 10 | This usage has been current for 20 years . |
| 11 | This facility has been available for most of the season running on certain days of the week using a vintage bus supplied by the Wilts and Dorset Bus Company . |
| 12 | In practice , this mistake has been responsible for much confusion in the discussion of syntactic possibilities and their means of expression . |
| 13 | In the US this trend has been evident for some time . |
| 14 | This summer has been bad for veg , apart from the courgette , which had special treatment . |
| 15 | Since April last year Historic Scotland has been responsible for the protection of historic wrecks within a 12-mile radius of Scotland . |
| 16 | We all know that what he terms his ’ meandering ’ round private Bills has been responsible for a good deal of heartache and not a little management time in British Rail spent trying to meet some of his objections . |
| 17 | The other important sub-sect to figure prominently in recent biblical scholarship has been familiar for a long time , but under a different name . |
| 18 | In most languages with writing systems alphabetic fingerspelling has been available for over two hundred years . |
| 19 | Such exploitation has been widespread for too long . |
| 20 | For the Edwardian Conservatives in particular , and British Conservatism in general , similar attention has been desirable for some time . |
| 21 | The Harrow , Middlesex-based firm has been responsible for designing , re-engineering , coding and implementing IBM 's Customer Information Control System , CICS , on top of the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment and Transarc Corp 's Encina transaction processing services to run on RS/6000s under AIX Version 3.2 . |
| 22 | In all cases , however , Standard English has been present for long enough to have had a substantial impact on the language practices of the communities in question . |
| 23 | That charge has been wrong-headed for some years ; nevertheless , it has been sustained by enough left-wing activity to feed Conservative propaganda . |
| 24 | The national park has been concerned for some time about the volume of heavy lorries using roads through the park . |
| 25 | Assume as before that national income has been constant for several time periods at £1,000 , and that autonomous investment is initially equal to £500 . |
| 26 | According to the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) , the trade in rhino horn products in these countries has been responsible for deaths of some 60,000 rhinos , or 85 per cent of the total population , since 1970 . |
| 27 | A little further north is the small village of Conisholme which for many years has been famous for its Appleby 's Ice Cream establishment . |
| 28 | Whatever you know , think , understand or dream about BMW , one man above all others has been responsible for putting those three initials into your consciousness . |
| 29 | Unlike other higher profile running mothers , returning to training after the birth of a healthy son has been gentle for the 44-year old . |
| 30 | The former Teesside and District Society for the Blind workshop has been empty for six years and is a magnet for vandals . |