Example sentences of "[been] [adj] for [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As has been normal for most organized communities that are not based on a money economy , African society was based on slavery ( in the sense of the life-long ownership of human beings who could be traded ) , which sometimes involved plantation work or even being used as a human sacrifice : there is no calculus to compare the disadvantages of local slavery with those of being taken across the Atlantic and used as plantation or mining labour . |
| 2 | Ashton thus created a special style fur a particular character which summed up — as it were — her whole being , but which would have been unsuitable for any other ballet . |
| 3 | It has not always been easy for those working class voters who see the Greens as an undisciplined bunch , inimical to the interests of industrial society , to keep up with the SPD 's enthusiastic appetite for environmental matters . |
| 4 | Life , in fact , would have been impossible for most higher forms , with only the hardiest microbes surviving . |
| 5 | They had probably been married for some thirty-odd years , perhaps longer . |
| 6 | From the day I first got an inkling of ‘ where babies come from ’ and taxed my mother with the proposition that I was therefore no relation to my father , I believed that it was me and me alone who had been responsible for all that pain and trouble called my birth . |
| 7 | ICI has been responsible for many major developments in acrylics since the 1930s . |
| 8 | Behind the scenes at London Zoo , staff have been responsible for some notable breeding achievements among rare and endangered species . |
| 9 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 10 | No evidence has yet been forthcoming for any external towers , the mortared stone foundation in Kingshams Field now being assigned to the medieval defences . |
| 11 | When she began to use contraception at the age of 42 she probably did so without her husband 's knowledge , but this would have been difficult for most working class women , given the lack of privacy in their homes . |
| 12 | Each in his time has painted over the inheritance of his predecessor , but the Oak Leaf camps have remained because they have been necessary for each new Czar 's survival . |