Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Scottish Council has been active for some years in bringing employers and school pupils closer together . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The other important sub-sect to figure prominently in recent biblical scholarship has been familiar for a long time , but under a different name . |
| 7 | In most languages with writing systems alphabetic fingerspelling has been available for over two hundred years . |
| 8 | For the Edwardian Conservatives in particular , and British Conservatism in general , similar attention has been desirable for some time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The national park has been concerned for some time about the volume of heavy lorries using roads through the park . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Unlike other higher profile running mothers , returning to training after the birth of a healthy son has been gentle for the 44-year old . |
| 14 | The former Teesside and District Society for the Blind workshop has been empty for six years and is a magnet for vandals . |
| 15 | Although vocational training for general practice has been mandatory for almost two decades , only 40% of general practitioners registering with the General Medical Council had a psychiatric attachment . |
| 16 | The elementary school has been open for twelve years offering the children of US service staff a throughly American education . |
| 17 | We do not suggest that the Conservative Government has been responsible for that , we doubt that a Labour Government would have done any better . |
| 18 | Groups of bed-sitters with communal lounge facilities have been tried , and in some places the shared lounge has been available for social facilities for the old people of the neighbourhood . |
| 19 | West Indian cricket has been strong for so long principally because it is looked upon almost as a religion in the Caribbean . |
| 20 | N. American Star has been available for a few years here in the UK . |
| 21 | Middle management has been vulnerable for some time . |
| 22 | In fact , western policy has been notable for its lack of order , particularly towards Russia . |
| 23 | The mammalian gut has been stable for many millennia and acts to constrain the flexibility of E. coli 's genome . |
| 24 | The exactitude and measure of structural engineering has been indispensable for the development of my work . |
| 25 | ‘ The positive image has been good for business , ’ Norton says . |