Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Rents linked to the tenant 's turnover have been common for many years , particularly in mining leases . |
| 3 | But almost all the men and women in your Home have been active for most of their lives . |
| 4 | The Government have been responsible for much of the secrecy surrounding many of their policies . |
| 5 | Transplants of the whole pancreas have been successful for some severely ill patients , however , they need to take powerful drugs for life to stop rejection of the organ . |
| 6 | Rumours of cutbacks at the factory have been rife for some time . |
| 7 | ‘ The fact is , Mr Stevens , all the Chinamen in this house have been dirty for some time ! |