Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] and [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own copy has been printed and reduced for reference . |
| 2 | Although strictly speaking the company is responsible for the cost of materials immediately the order is placed , the normal procedure is for costing to be delayed until the invoice has been checked and approved for payment . |
| 3 | ‘ The defence does not arise on a plea of autrefois convict , but on the well-established rule at common law , that where a person has been convicted and punished for an offence by a court of competent jurisdiction , transit in rem judicatam , that is , the conviction shall be a bar to all further proceedings for the same offence , and he shall not be punished again for the same matter ; otherwise there might be two different punishments for the same offence . |
| 4 | A bus has been booked and paid for . |
| 5 | The chateau 's Council chamber has been transported and reconstructed for the exhibition , having been restored by the Reunion des Musées Nationaux courtesy of a $200,000 donation from Memphis . |
| 6 | The firm says it has been adapted and tested for the MTOS , VRTX , VMEexec and other real-time operating systems . |
| 7 | George : ‘ You would n't have been born and writing for THE FACE if it was n't for someone spunking off . ’ |
| 8 | The achievements of the Dorset industry , which must have been under very astute management , were due to the presence of Poole Harbour , where the pottery must have been crated and shipped for its journey on the western route with its useful points of entry , the Bristol Channel , the Dee and Mersey , the Solway Firth and the Clyde . |
| 9 | In those early days Bain worked out that the 23 houses most under threat could have been rescued and restored for £240,000 . |
| 10 | This scheme , which was the first which opened up the riverside in Leeds , an area which up to this time had been ignored and declining for 100 years , led the way for the mass of development which has since followed . |
| 11 | Put another way , she had been plucked and prepared for meetings like this as carefully as a goose is dressed for the oven . |
| 12 | Although the quietness of his end was made memorable by Reith 's BBC announcement that ‘ the King 's life is moving peacefully towards its close ’ , there had been no long-term illness during which an early change of reign had been accepted and prepared for . |
| 13 | Behind him in the bathroom stood a chipped old tub slowly filling with water that was the colour of weak tea ; the bathroom walls had been replastered and roughened for tiling , but they did n't have any tiles . |
| 14 | Former Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi had been detained and interrogated for three days . |
| 15 | The room had been vandalized — viciously so ; but it was equally apparent that it had been furnished and cared for at a level totally different from the other rooms . |
| 16 | Storms had wrecked the Spanish fleet on the shores of West Ireland , and the refugees had been welcomed and cared for by the Irish people . |
| 17 | There was a similar reaction after several bodies went missing from Britain 's biggest cemetery in Surrey in April 1988 , even after a man had been arrested and charged for decapitating a disinterred corpse . |
| 18 | Ironically , it was at this time that Ezra Pound , who had been arrested and imprisoned for treason , was examined by four prominent psychologists and judged to be insane . |
| 19 | A man had shot a woman , buried her body in the sands , had been caught and hung for his crime . |
| 20 | Alfred 's shop looked as though it had been closed and deserted for months ; it was hard to believe that it was only three days since a few people , at least , had been entering through the rickety door with its small glass panes to buy patent medicines or seek advice . |
| 21 | Traces of what had been dreamed and hoped for remained ; fragments of poems to Union , written by men whose names had been systematically removed from all record . |
| 22 | Some time previously and after a wait of five years my name had been proposed and seconded for membership , but when my proposer heard that two members were of a mind to blackball me in the ballot , he ( without telling me ) withdrew my candidature . |
| 23 | Beckford was as impatient as Vathek to complete his building , but did not have a magical assistant ; the tower twice collapsed , for the last time in 1825 , and Beckford 's contractor confessed upon his death-bed that he had not provided it with foundations , although they had been specified and paid for . |
| 24 | As Julia began to work the room , she realised that the house had been designed and built for just this sort of occasion : it was planned for servants to run . |
| 25 | Great as his victory had been , London was not quite ready for a twenty-foot high anatomically accurate Achilles , especially as the statue had been commissioned and paid for by the grateful women of England . |
| 26 | Anne realised that the younger , prettier members of both sexes had been bought and paid for . |
| 27 | Many temples , caves , burial chambers and ‘ vision pits ’ have been constructed and used for this purpose . |
| 28 | A number of foreign businessmen have been kidnapped and held for ransom in Manila . |
| 29 | It is usual to follow patients who have been diagnosed and treated for syphilis for a period of two years to make sure that the treatment is effective and that relapse does not occur . |
| 30 | Most of the money is owed by people whose homes have been repossessed and sold for less than their outstanding mortgage . |