Example sentences of "and [verb] [be] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manner in which cross-references are realized and checked is crucial for a consistent hyper-base . |
| 2 | Chewing and sucking are comforting for the human being and the roots of this go right back into babyhood . |
| 3 | The man accused of murdering an Open University lecturer was taken ill and has been absent for most of the second day of his trial . |
| 4 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Petterson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Pettersson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways … ’ |
| 6 | He has attempted to come off on several occasions and at the time of interview was undergoing methadone withdrawal and has been heroin-free for two months . ‘ |
| 7 | The time out lasts only until the child has stopped the undesirable behaviour and has been quiet for a short time . |
| 8 | This is a very lethal condition and has been responsible for a great many accidents and much loss of life . |
| 9 | For the past two years he has run Colnaghi 's representative office in Paris and has been responsible for business development in Europe , Japan and South America . |
| 10 | She has been at Orion since October , and has been responsible for , among other things , the marketing of Vikram Seth 's A Suitable Boy . |
| 11 | He has been managing director of LASMO North Sea for the last four years and has been responsible for the group 's activities in the UK and Netherlands . |
| 12 | But Ian Shiels , who works in the warehouse and has been responsible for football activity in the past , is aware of this and is hoping for better things to come . |
| 13 | He has had a solid connection with the orchestra and the Scottish music scene ever since , and has been responsible for bringing some unusual works to the concert platform in the past . |
| 14 | It was flat , and having been open for only fifteen years , was not criss-crossed with sewers , gas and water pipes which otherwise would have required costly re-location . |
| 15 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 16 | She was an Irish Catholic woman of twenty-eight and had been married for nearly two years . |
| 17 | When several of us got down there the CO informed us that we had to fly down the Gulf to look for an Imperial Airways airliner , one of those Armstrong Whitworth Argosys which was named City of Glasgow , and had been overdue for sometime . |
| 18 | The one I found was run down , anyway , and had been empty for years . ’ |
| 19 | Both the US Navy and Army had run their own intelligence departments since the early 1880s while the FBI had been in existence since 1910 and had been responsible for collating foreign intelligence . |
| 20 | The issue of the Securitate , which had maintained Ceausescu in power and had been responsible for the bloodshed in the week following the revolution , was another factor which fuelled mistrust . |
| 21 | Chaabane had in June 1991 been appointed " first adviser to the President on human rights " [ see p. 38363 ] and had been responsible for explaining abroad the government 's policy towards the Islamic movement and on electoral reform . |
| 22 | The same cubes , padded and covered are fine for occasional seating . |
| 23 | Give and take is essential for success . |
| 24 | Outmigration to cities in search of menial jobs or part-time work in nearby plantations provide remittances and reduce food demand , but these activities also reduce labour availability and have been responsible for the collapse of old-established terracing systems in the Middle and near East , particularly Yemen and also in the Andean part of Peru and Colombia . |
| 25 | This could be the year they do , though they say that around the Cam every year and have been wrong for 15 of the last 16 . |