Example sentences of "have been [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three subsequent colonoscopies have been negative for dysplasia . |
| 2 | These islands have been Spanish for centuries . |
| 3 | Many of the tips provided so far for the management of children have been relevant for adolescents . |
| 4 | History , as we have mentioned , has been kind : the country has staved off invasion by its enemies , and the resources have been available for government to make and meet commitments in response to changing demands and expectations . |
| 5 | Since March of this year quality greetings cards in many designs have been available for Society members to purchase for £1.00 each . |
| 6 | And there has been an unexpected spin-off — because SNIA Fibre is a subsidiary of a chemicals group controlled by Fiat , cars have been available for UK Novaceta workers at discounted prices . |
| 7 | Because the area is now supposed to be designated , farmers have been ineligible for grants from the many government conservation schemes . |
| 8 | The cats have been asleep for days . |
| 9 | This last aspect has yet to be fully developed but training agencies have been short-listed for courses scheduled for later this year . |
| 10 | The last few years have been stressful for teacher education , for it has not only experienced the constant need for self- defence of higher education generally , but also special pressures from the Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education ( CATE ) , set up in 1984 , and the new funding arrangements for in-service education started in 1986 ( which effectively wiped out the source of student funding for most full-time award-bearing courses ) . |
| 11 | Fixed-price contracts have been normal for production contracts but on occasion this has led to claims that excess profits have been made and in a few cases repayment of the excess has been enforced . |
| 12 | The source/migration/entrapment model suggests that conditions have been favourable for gas accumulation in Palaeozoic reservoirs contained within rift-related fault-blocks and more subtle stratigraphic traps . |
| 13 | She says some have been empty for years and she wants to live in one . |
| 14 | In the north of Ethiopia , such practices have been common for centuries . |
| 15 | THE last six months have been tough for John Major . |
| 16 | The report of the Seebohm Committee recommended the creation of unified social services departments which , from 1970 , have been responsible for work under various Children Acts . |
| 17 | Until now several teams in different parts of the country have been responsible for organ co-ordination . |
| 18 | The nine Regional Councils and the three Islands Councils have been responsible for water , sewerage and sewage disposal since local government reorganisation in 1975 . |
| 19 | In Rwanda soldiers loyal to President Juvénal Habyarimana have been responsible for atrocities against Rwanda 's Tutsi minority . |
| 20 | Too many women have been brain-washed for centuries in to accepting the old saying : 'A son 's a son till he gets him a wife , but a daughter 's a daughter all her life . ’ |
| 21 | Slides which have been carbon-coated for probe work , however , can be examined directly in cold cathode equipment ; the thin coating offers no impediment to the electron beam . |
| 22 | Increasingly such flats have come to be part of a system of ‘ less eligibility ’ for those households whose actual behaviour is judged not to conform to the domestic ideal : women single parents dependent on state benefits , families with housewives who are defined as ‘ poor ’ housekeepers by other women employed by the local authority to make such judgements ( Ungerson , 1971 ) , families headed by men who have been unemployed for years , and single women ( Austerberry and Watson , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | We encounter people who have been dead for years , or improbably have conversations with film stars or royalty . |