Example sentences of "[adv] been [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When ivy is seen growing throughout the crown of a dying tree it has rarely been responsible for the tree 's decline but has taken advantage of the crown which now lets through enough light for the ivy to grow away . |
| 2 | The result was that they received both a big two-year increase and a pay review body which has since been responsible for a further substantial increase in their salaries . |
| 3 | Thus , it has hitherto been appropriate for the professional partnership where limited liability is forbidden . |
| 4 | ‘ I need help getting on and off the train and British Rail provides a ramp for this , but for about a month it 's only been possible for me to arrive or leave the station before 3.15pm . |
| 5 | 88open has decided to offer its system and application compatibility test suites — ITS/88 , AVS/88 and ACT/88 — to industry consortia and companies : although to date they have only been available for Motorola Inc 88000 RISC based systems , interested parties would presumably customise the sets for other architectures . |
| 6 | David you allowed to hit him now , he 's only been one for thrty-eight years . |
| 7 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 8 | It was felt that Manson and his Family had not only been responsible for the death of seven people , but also for the death of innocence , and suddenly hippies were n't cute or funny any more . |
| 9 | Yes , it does : and that is why art directors love it — though it has only been fashionable for about 20 years . |
| 10 | and it 's only been open for what two or three years |
| 11 | Especially when my own husband has only been dead for just over a week . |
| 12 | I 've only been operational for four months and yet already people are beginning to seek me out . |
| 13 | She had apparently been dead for a week . |
| 14 | It had long been traditional for offices to hold an annual dinner for staff in the winter and an outing or picnic in summer . |
| 15 | Ambonnay has long been famous for its production of still red wines . |
| 16 | The coastal resort of Skegness and Mablethorpe have long been famous for the seaside delights they offer and for many , who do not know East Lindsey well , these may be the only places here that they have heard of . |
| 17 | The aggressively minded General Conrad von Hötzendorff , Chief of the Austrian General Staff , had long been avid for a pre-emptive war . |
| 18 | Colonizing species of alien genera doing likewise had long been decisive for Darwin 's species origin theorizing , where the analogy with the European human conquests over Australasian natives was hardly less explicit . |
| 19 | The Americans have long been eager for the Japanese to help Latin America 's economies , and mused that the Europeans might want to shoulder a degree of responsibility for Africa . |
| 20 | The links predated the Francoist regime ; the army had long been responsible for the training of footplate , traffic and other staff who entered RENFE through military service ( as they continued to do after the restoration of democracy ) . |
| 21 | ‘ The irony is that it 's all been dead for us lately . |
| 22 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 23 | Had the House of Lords retained the power to block the Commons utterly , and particularly had it not been possible for the Labour administration of 1945–51 force through its nationalisation policies by using the Parliament Act procedure to amend the 1911 Act , it is likely that the House of Lords would have been abolished . |
| 24 | It could be improved by including all the results of excavations since 1961 , but this has not been possible for various reasons , the most important of which is that it is no longer the intention to study the results of 367 , but to turn to another event recorded by Ammianus which can be illuminated by this old study and by more recent work . |
| 25 | It has not been possible for the American navy to leave behind the assets that it had developed there , but my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence will certainly take note of the point that the hon. Lady raised about Ministry of Defence assets in the area . |
| 26 | If , because of confidentiality or for other reasons , it has not been possible for the seller to make all enquiries that it otherwise would , the seller would be well advised to stipulate in the contract or disclosure letter what enquiries have been made . |
| 27 | This signalled the arrival of the half of the school that had NOT been early for assembly , who tried to enter the sports hall at the same time as the half that had just been thrown out tried to exit . |
| 28 | Car production at Tatra has not been profitable for more than 40 years . |
| 29 | The taxation in itself , however heavy , could hardly have sparked off so violent a conflagration if conditions had not been appropriate for it . |
| 30 | It had not been reasonable for the Royal Mail to use their dismissals as an example of enforcement of the new rules . |