Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb -s] [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |
| 2 | An attractive programme of visits to both transport and cultural centres has been arranged for your interest . |
| 3 | The type of employment offered by manufacturing industry in rural areas has been questioned for a number of reasons . |
| 4 | Some general practitioners will also benefit from schemes to improve substandard premises ; £170 million over six years has been promised for this ( but only £10 million for 1993–4 ) . |
| 5 | Retrovirus-mediated gene transfer into transplantable cells has been proposed for several conditions , but treatment of immunodeficiency caused by adenosine deaminase ( ADA ) deficiency appears imminent . |
| 6 | The homogeneity of the three groups has been reported for a wide variety of preoperative variables including age , sex , type of fluid , allergy , seasonal variation , radiographic determination of the size of the adenoids and postnasal space , and duration of preoperative loss of hearing . |
| 7 | Conservative support in the larger cities has been declining for more than 25 years . |
| 8 | It is most unlikely that either of these areas has been used for arable in the last 1500 years , and this is confirmed to some extent by field names recorded on the earliest maps ( of the early nineteenth century ) and in medieval documents . |
| 9 | The popularity of these films has been blamed for the emergence of Ninja gangs in Lusaka suburbs who wear black masks , carry home-made swords , iron bars , clubs and sticks which they use during burglaries and muggings . |
| 10 | Yet the commercial farmers can be forgiven for believing that the decision to buy the white farms has been taken for short-term political reasons rather than longer-term ones of efficiency or fairness . |
| 11 | A ceiling of 638,800 square metres has been set for 1992 , including timber from plantations . |
| 12 | Well the distance is equal to a hundred miles an hour , times how many hours has been travelling for ? |
| 13 | Meanwhile , a reward of two thousand pounds has been offered for information . |
| 14 | British Nuclear Fuels has been criticised for trying to conclude a deal with South Korea , a country which President Bush has named as increasing the proliferation risk . |
| 15 | They are defined in s.12(c) as listed securities or securities in respect of which , not more than six months prior to the breach in question , information indicating the prices at which persons have dealt or were willing to deal in those securities has been published for the purpose of facilitating deals in those securities . |
| 16 | An additional £600m ( $A1.36bn ) over five years has been allocated for this . |
| 17 | A range of elegant techniques has been developed for characterising new genetic mutations — all the techniques rely on the generation by the polymerase chain reaction of large quantities of DNA fragments from normal and mutant alleles . |
| 18 | The use of both types of syntactic analysers has been attempted for helping to select the correct candidate words from the candidates suggested by text recognition systems in this thesis . |
| 19 | THE action of alkali metals and their oxides as promoters for many catalytic reactions has been known for nearly a century . |
| 20 | In addition a General Directory of Latin American Archives has been launched for which 30,000 archives will be put onto a database . |
| 21 | Local trade is booming and every hotel room for 40 miles has been booked for tomorrow night when the results will be known . |
| 22 | The unreliability of reported mergers has been argued for most strongly by Labov and his colleagues ( Labov , Yaeger and Steiner , 1972 ; Labov , 1975 etc. ) , and for inner-city Belfast it can be argued that meat is not really merged with mate , despite the fact that people believe that it is a merger . |
| 23 | The possibility of a connection between the disappearance of coronae and the onset of massive winds has been discussed for many years . |
| 24 | A special meeting of both sides has been called for next Tuesday to discuss the crux . |
| 25 | As well as the centre 's fascinating nuclear power exhibition , a packed programme of special events has been arranged for visitors — which is how brave assistant information officer Diane Williams ended up getting the bird ! |