Example sentences of "been [adj] for [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the old days before the local government reorganization of 1974 , it had been possible for Local Education Authorities to make their decisions relatively autonomously , with a view to the educational needs of local children , and under the guidance of often very high-powered and imaginative Chief Education Officers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Have the parents been X-rayed for hip dysplasia and do they hold eye certificates ? 2 . |
| 5 | The year has been good for programme sales , particularly overseas where sales increased more than a half to £18.8m . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Biologists believe the same benthic algae may have been responsible for animal deaths on Loch Lubnaig , near Callander , not far from my Stirling home , and at Loch Insh on Speyside in the past two years . |
| 8 | Until now several teams in different parts of the country have been responsible for organ co-ordination . |
| 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 | This view is espoused by Myers ( 1986 ) , who believes that deforestation in the Himalaya has been responsible for flood disasters in the lower reaches of the Ganges and Brahmaputra and the higher incidence of flooding that has occurred since 1940 ; apparently flooding now affects some 10 6 ha of land as compared with 6 × 10 6 ha in the early 1950s . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Since March of this year quality greetings cards in many designs have been available for Society members to purchase for £1.00 each . |
| 13 | Since 1983 it has been compulsory for car drivers and front seat passengers of all ages to wear seat belts or use child safety restraints . |
| 14 | Had Woolwich failed in those proceedings , it would have faced a bill for interest , which would not have been deductible for tax purposes , in an amount far exceeding the net return which Woolwich could have obtained from investing the money withheld . |
| 15 | Had Woolwich failed in those proceedings , it would have faced a bill for interest , which would not have been deductible for tax purposes , in an amount far exceeding the net return which Woolwich could have obtained from investing the money withheld . |
| 16 | It would have been inconceivable for exchange control to be tossed around and knocked around in Cabinet . |
| 17 | At entry all patients had been seropositive for hepatitis B surface antigen ( HBsAg ) and HBeAg for at least six months . |
| 18 | In short , it appears that temperature/time relationships may not have been unfavourable for hydrocarbon generation and preservations in the Variscan foreland and at least the leading thrust sheet , warranting attention to the availability of source rocks , reservoir rocks , cap rocks , and structures . |
| 19 | Case records were retrieved and examined to established if these patients would have been suitable for transplant assessment , either on the basis of poor quality of life or expected survival , in the absence of transplantation , of less than one year . |
| 20 | 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 . |