Example sentences of "[verb] been closed for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the casualty department has been closed for two years Mr Dale said it was imperative that it is opened because of its close proximity to London 's third airport . |
| 2 | In all they 've questioned twelve present and former members of staff from the school , which has been closed for four months . |
| 3 | The pub has been closed for eight weeks but tenant Tracy Willcox said the renovation was a vast improvement . |
| 4 | All foreign branches seem to have been closed for financial reasons in 1891–1892 , but Wilson , after the refloating of the union in 1894 , persisted in his international endeavours , establishing new branches in Hamburg , Rotterdam and Antwerp in the following year and an agency in New York , and accepting the logic of the shipowners ' often repeated argument that British claims to higher pay would be more convincing if foreign rates were brought up to British levels . |
| 5 | In 1818 , the Walker colliery which had been closed for the preceding 30 years was reopened . |
| 6 | The windows had been closed for nearly three months and the place had a dusty smell that got into your throat and made your eyes smart . |
| 7 | The trapdoors which covered the original apertures and which had been closed for thirty years he managed to get open with the aid of a tool , a screwdriver from the appearance of the marks . |
| 8 | The other eye had been closed for most of the fight by a left hook that had caused a large amount of swelling both above and below the brow . |
| 9 | The plant , built in 1974 , had a poor safety record and had been closed for a two-year period following a failure in the control system in 1985 , and could no longer provide electricity at a competitive price . |
| 10 | He also promised that the country 's schools — which had been closed for two months because of fears of political violence — would reopen within days , and that a civic work programme would be implemented for Haitian youths . |
| 11 | The order stated that the border post had been closed for " security reasons " because of the increasing number of attacks on tourist convoys by " highway robbers " . |
| 12 | His flat had been closed for weeks and the fridge was empty . |
| 13 | Richborough Castle had been closed for the day by the Department of the Environment . |
| 14 | The museum had been closed for several months because of a leaking roof . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Two slip roads off the A19 in Cleveland have been closed for resurfacing work to be carried out . |
| 17 | A woman has offered to spend a hundred thousand pounds of her own money to reopen a village school that 's been closed for over a year . |
| 18 | I think it 's been closed for a long time actually . |
| 19 | But you know it surprises me I mean I know the church is , is closed and it 's been closed for a couple of years now and it looks a sight because now I do n't know how many members they 've got , at least a couple of them could go in there and cut all the brambles down . |