Example sentences of "[noun] has [been] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well presumably with , what we 're trying to do is create some sort of alternative family units , we do n't want , although , er , laudable what the youth service does , is , we would n't want , if they do n't want to plugged , clubbable together , if , if , if , if the , the unit could provide that , or provide alternatives to pick up the , the correlation between that and , and ordinary normal family unit , I would hope that that would have been the best way forward , erm , er , because often some youngsters are in this situation because they , they have n't found the , that sort of provision has been helpful for them . |
| 2 | The national park has been concerned for some time about the volume of heavy lorries using roads through the park . |
| 3 | Implementing change has been easier for parish church cathedrals , for obvious reasons . |
| 4 | UNTIL now actress Tara Fitzgerald has been famous for what she does n't wear . |
| 5 | ICI has been responsible for many major developments in acrylics since the 1930s . |
| 6 | The world recession has been tough for all of us , at home and abroad . |
| 7 | Taking the wrong course has been expensive for us all . |
| 8 | The board has been concerned for some years about the possible impact of excessive dependence on coal — used for 80 per cent of electricity currently generated — if developments in the domestic or international coal market push prices up rapidly . |
| 9 | My experience has been that for many people there is not all that difference between bringing ‘ God ’ in and touching wood . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Benjamin Libet of the University of California at San Francisco has been responsible for two sets of experiments which are often cited as crucial evidence in the debate about the relationship between brain and mind . |
| 12 | Moreover , to offer vocational courses such as TEC and BEC , where these were not previously available , would have required suitably qualified staff and appropriate facilities at a time of recession when money has been available for neither . |
| 13 | This marketing approach to products has been beneficial for the consumer because it determines what a company will sell based on what the consumer wants , or the market place is ready to discover and buy , rather than on hope and guesswork . |
| 14 | The warehouse has been empty for many years , but holding repairs have meant at least that water penetration to the fabric is reduced . |
| 15 | In fact , the revenue has been stable for the last three years . |
| 16 | Depo-Provera has been available for short-term use in Britain since 1978 . |
| 17 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 18 | Or attempt to explore with a Central European Jew the precise nature of the ties that he or she feels with a culture which down the centuries has been responsible for so much persecution and pain . |
| 19 | ‘ English football has been dead for a decade now , ’ he added . |
| 20 | By the end of the novel Jaromil has forsworn his artist friend , who is under the ban of the regime and compelled to paint by candlelight : ‘ The whole world of his pictures has been dead for years . |
| 21 | Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev is probably one of the most well-known of all Soviet aircraft designers and his OKB has been responsible for a wide variety of aircraft types . |
| 22 | The effect has been that for most of this century Britain has had to hold interest rates higher than has been necessary or desirable . |
| 23 | The other important sub-sect to figure prominently in recent biblical scholarship has been familiar for a long time , but under a different name . |
| 24 | In fact the light has been green for some time already . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He says some overseas players are disasters but Courtney has been great for Gloucestershire . |
| 27 | At least Rocky has been quiet for Man City . |
| 28 | This " rhetoric-reality " distinction is a feature of much evaluation , and in library research has been productive for , amongst others , those involved in the LASS Project , who write of " the traditional rhetoric of sixth-form responsibility and independence " ( Hopkins and Rudduck , 1984 ) which they contrast with " the realities of sixth-form teaching and learning " . |
| 29 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 30 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |