Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] have [been] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their boats have been used for the Royal Lymington Cup and the Air Canada Industry Sailing Challenge , as well as the Chartered Surveyors ' Regatta and many other similar events . |
| 2 | For you , the only safe commerce with reason is to learn from your superiors the dogmata in which her deliverances have been codified for general use . |
| 3 | He reminded them of how their predecessors had been punished for their wickedness and repeatedly urged obedience to the commands of the Church . |
| 4 | Survivors thought their vehicles had been stopped for a security check ; the shock of what they 'd seen sent this young Palestinian into deep trauma . |
| 5 | Smaller theatres striving to balance budgets and improve quality in marketing and production , etc will now have greater difficulty than before because their grants have been frozen for another year . |
| 6 | ( However , this does happen occasionally and the relocation companies report that their services have been used for senior new appointments and for technical specialists . ) |
| 7 | If the business has different sections or different sites , you should enquire whether all its employees have been considered for redundancy or whether your particular part of the operation is the only one which has come under scrutiny for cut-backs . |
| 8 | Johnson ( 1971 , p. 283 ) points out that , historically , the emphasis ‘ in Britain has been almost exclusively on procedures which would enable Parliament to exercise a post facto check on the manner in which monies had been spent for the purposes approved by ( but not proposed by ) Parliament ’ . |
| 9 | He spoke of the close links what had been forged through trade with Spain and Portugal , whose wines had been exchanged for skins , wool and fish . |
| 10 | The first Cabinet member to be linked with the Sagawa scandal was Transport Minister Keiwa Okuda , who on March 1 admitted that the salary of one of his aides had been paid for by the transport group at the centre of the scandal . |
| 11 | But he was also at pains to point out that the wind is 2–5 per cent down on historical averages and that the water temperature is five degrees higher , producing softer winds than his boats had been designed for . |
| 12 | About the year 1800 , or just afterwards , my great-great-grandfather , John Hey , moved from Shelley in the parish of Kirkburton , where his ancestors had been settled for centuries , to the village of Thurlstone . |
| 13 | He was devastated when he discovered his premises had been attacked for the second time . |
| 14 | Former US Congressman Bruce Morrison and his colleagues have been slated for their meeting with Sinn Fein 's Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness in west Belfast yesterday . |
| 15 | Since then , many of His followers have been martyred for refusing to keep quiet and toe the ‘ official ’ line . |
| 16 | It is highly relevant to ask what values have been measured for neutron star masses ; do they fall in with expectation ? |
| 17 | Our eyes have been closed for many centuries , yet the sages and physicians of the East have never lost sight of the reality of the WHOLE . |
| 18 | All of our hotels have been chosen for their good standard of comfort and value . |
| 19 | ‘ But the win over Wimbledon means that our hopes have been extended for another week and we are still in the ball game . |