Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giving their decision , Lord Hope said strong reasons had been given for hearing what the children had to say without taking them back to Orkney . |
| 2 | A number of possible reasons have been identified for the rapid expansion of private sector residential care : the increase in the numbers of very old people , the reduction in long-stay hospital provision , cuts in local authority spending , and finally , the ‘ perverse incentives ’ of the social security system that encourages residential rather than community care . |
| 3 | ‘ Posh restaurants have been closing for renovations and re-opening as cheap eateries . ’ |
| 4 | If these ten poorest readers had been selected for remedial teaching during the six-month period a ( probably ) spurious improvement in spelling would be inferred . |
| 5 | At the time of writing , a further 22 titles have been announced for autumn 1991 and spring 1992 . |
| 6 | Two further reasons have been given for the establishment of government-owned newspapers or for the taking over of existing privately owned ones . |
| 7 | Mm detailed plans have been approved for a single storey dwelling in the garden on one of the houses condition on the surgery reverting to living accommodation , the houses would have considerable scope for use as offices subject to planning or paramedical use especially where large car parking areas are required , the whole is available at two hundred and fifty thousand pounds , but offers may be considered for number twenty five with the garden and parking area building plots to the agent |
| 8 | Careful plans have been made for these people so that when the hospital eventually closes they will not find themselves on the streets . |
| 9 | He says the old skills have been lost for 80 years . |
| 10 | The two British fighters have been tipped for a multi-million pound British showdown since Bruno 's boxing licence was renewed 14 months ago , and the prospect gathered pace last week when Lewis was crowned WBC champion . |
| 11 | Problems there certainly were : the disentangling of assets with multiple uses ( for example , some offices had been used for gas billing as well as for electricity ) inevitably caused some headaches . |
| 12 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |
| 13 | Itinerant craftsmen have been argued for on the basis of the use of bronze models for the production of two-piece clay moulds ( Werner 1970 ; Capelle and Vierck 1971 ) and Hines views travelling craftsmen as the most suitable explanation for the dispersal of ornamental metalwork ( Hines 1984 ) . |
| 14 | Areas of extensive hydrothermal alteration in high level intrusives of the west and central Scottish granites have been investigated for gold mineralisation especially in , or near , shear zones . |
| 15 | This shortcoming can be explained in part by the alleged deficiencies of the respective approaches ( social administrators have been criticized for their less than rigorous historical investigations ( Thane , 1992 ) whilst historians have been taken to task for their reluctance to engage in broad theoretical debate ) . |
| 16 | Moreover , so-called inequities have been addressed for a number of years . |
| 17 | Since 1918 comparatively few jewels have been designed for court wear in any country ; since 1939 hardly any . |
| 18 | Some statements have been edited for clarity . |
| 19 | The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow . |
| 20 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 21 | If further packages have been marked for processing , the scrolled area will be redisplayed with the contents of the next package and you can continue as before . |
| 22 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 23 | Social workers have been criticised for paying for driving lessons for a seventeen year old single mother . |
| 24 | The Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram of Aug. 3 reported that 120 Iraqi officers had been executed for refusing to support the invasion , a claim confirmed by Arab diplomats arriving in Syria from Kuwait in late August . |
| 25 | The necessary economic and social conditions had been created for the overthrow of capitalism and the construction of socialism . |
| 26 | But here a thin frieze of very old trees had been preserved for the delectation of the lairds who looked out from their houses on the slopes — Cluny , Grandtully , Clochfoldich , Pitcastle . |
| 27 | Foreign publications have been criticised for alleged one-sided reporting and their correspondents have been denied visas . |
| 28 | Research has consistently demonstrated that the transfer of older clients from hospital to the community can be very problematic with older people being sent home without adequate arrangements having been made for their continuing care ( Victor 1983 ) . |
| 29 | An attractive programme of visits to both transport and cultural centres has been arranged for your interest . |
| 30 | They separated and , on their joint application for divorce , the Family Court of Australia granted a decree nisi and expressed itself satisfied that proper arrangements had been made for the children 's welfare , namely , that they would live with their mother during the week and be supervised by the father at weekends . |