Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles has been appointed for the UK launch next month of Procter & Gamble 's sanpro range Always . |
| 2 | With the exception of ‘ Incident on 42nd Street ’ ( 1988 ) , the diptych owned by Metropolitan Museum and omitted for budgetary reasons , the exhibition features all of the themes which the artist has explored and culminates with a selection of canvases of Coney Island , where Jacklin has been working for the last eighteen months . |
| 3 | The Carolingians ' heartlands , that is , the area where most of their estates were clustered , and where Franks had been settled for centuries , spanned modern Belgium and the Netherlands , northern France , and western Germany , thus lying athwart the " natural " frontiers of the Ardennes forest , and the rivers Meuse and Rhine . |
| 4 | Federal US prosecutors say that a former partner at Frost & Sullivan has been indicted for allegedly trading on inside information stolen from the law firm of Skadden , Arps , Slate , Meagher & Flom : Michael Borlinghaus was indicted for allegedly receiving the non-public information from an IBM Corp executive and the allegation is that Borlinghaus , his friend and neighbour Leonard Bellezza , and others traded on the information ; he faces a possible maximum prison term of 20 years and fines of more than $1m if he is convicted of the offence . |
| 5 | But he had barely been gone for an hour when there came the signal that Thorfinn had been waiting for . |
| 6 | IBM noted that Zschau had been tapped for the post before Louis Gerstner came aboard as its new chairman , and said that there were no plans to offer AdStar shares to the public . |
| 7 | Some said at the time that Leviathan had been written for Cromwell , and indeed Hobbes did say that it supported a ‘ conscientious obedience to the present government ’ of the Protectorate . |
| 8 | Her feeling was that Meryl had been waiting for someone … |
| 9 | It was widely known , however , that China had been pressing for a Japanese imperial visit for some time as a means of marking a further stage in the country 's rehabilitation from the diplomatic isolation which had followed the Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 10 | ( Much later , he discovered that PROMIS had been developed for the US Department of Justice by Inslaw , Inc. of Washington , D.C. , as an information system for law-enforcement agencies and government prosecutors with heavy workloads to keep track of their cases . |
| 11 | And although Whigs under Anne liked to claim that James had been deposed for breaking his original contract with the people , they found it a credible way of embarrassing their political opponents to argue that it was the Tories who had been responsible for James 's downfall . |
| 12 | Jasper and Bert had been gone for ten days . |
| 13 | The Caledonides of Britain and Ireland and the Hercynides of France , Spain and Portugal have been selected for study as representatives of the two main stratigraphic and structural domains of western Europe . |
| 14 | If Ebert had been paying for Axel 's debauchery , the chances were that he was behind the death of the girl . |
| 15 | Charlotte and Alexander have been waiting for years . |
| 16 | Tom Dreaper could not convince him that racing was a business to be taken seriously , and Foinavon had been sold for 2,000 guineas . |
| 17 | Dr Gilbert has pointed out that when the evangelist Hannah More remarked in 1789 on the existence of whole village populations no less estranged from the services of the Church than were heathens , she was belatedly recognising something which Wesley and Whitefield had been proclaiming for decades . |
| 18 | Thus , tests for organisms such as E coli and Shigella have been developed for use on drinking water supplies . |
| 19 | Donald and Elinor had been talking for thirty minutes . |
| 20 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 21 | And Orlick had been arrested for breaking into Pumblechook 's house and stealing his money . |
| 22 | If Philip had been looking for a pale , sickly , ragged and possibly fettered prisoner , Harry would be a considerable shock to him . |
| 23 | The year Lydia had bought her cottage a young person had died and Lydia had been lost for words , as people are in the face of tragedy . |
| 24 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 25 | She and Caan had been separated for three years . |
| 26 | On Sept. 17 it was announced that the defence and economic co-operation accord between the USA and Turkey had been extended for another year . |
| 27 | And Nicholas had been sent for . |
| 28 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , the cancelled shows at Cambridge , Birmingham and London have been rescheduled for January , along with a number of additional dates . |
| 30 | ‘ It seems as if John had been waiting for them to leave . |