Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [vb pp] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This catalogue raisonné has been keenly awaited for several years ; work began before the artist 's death in 1988 , aged eighty-six . |
| 2 | The castle had not been properly maintained for many years and after the auction it was allowed to crumble . |
| 3 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 4 | Strike action on the coalfields was the major catalyst for the 1926 General Strike , and the miners have been widely perceived for several decades as at the forefront of trade union militancy in the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | Aden was at that time an RAF command , in which the operational policy of air control had been successfully applied for some years . |
| 6 | The ETC has been successfully established for several years and is very well equipped to provide all travel needs at the most competitive prices . |
| 7 | Instead , it appears to have been wholly ignored for 60 years until it was mentioned briefly by Gauze ( 1934 ) in his book The Struggle for Existence . |
| 8 | The Test has been delicately poised for four days , with fortunes swinging wildly . |
| 9 | True ivory is one of the few substances to have been highly esteemed for symbolic purposes wherever it could be obtained . |
| 10 | This rediscovery has come through historical exhibitions held recently at New York 's DIA Center for the Arts ( 1988–89 ) , Claude Berri 's RENN Espace d'Art Contemporain in Paris ( 1991–92 ) and at the Hallen für Neue Kunst , Schaffhausen , where Ryman 's art has been prominently featured for several years and a fresh installation opens shortly ( 2 May-31 October ) . |
| 11 | The range includes a cleanser , toner and moisturiser , which have been specially formulated for irritable complexions . |
| 12 | Today 's prayer is one that has been specially written for United Nations Day — October 24th . |
| 13 | Aqua has been specially designed for oily skins . |
| 14 | Access to further and higher education has been unduly restricted for handicapped children and this should be improved . |
| 15 | Such group-frequency correlations have been extensively developed for organic compounds , and similar correlations can be drawn up for inorganic species [ 19 ] . |
| 16 | It has been extensively investigated for large mammals ( Brain , 1958 , 1974 , 1981 ; Voorhies , 1969 ; Sutcliff , 1970 ; Behrensmeyer , 1975 ; Klein , 1975 ; Hill , 1975 ; Shipman , 1977 , 1983a ; Behrensmeyer & Hill , 1980 ; Binford , 1981 ) , but little work has been done on small mammals . |
| 17 | The extent of these learning skills has been ingeniously studied for individual bees by Randolf Menzel in Berlin over the past two decades , and he has been able to clarify the role of many regions of the bee 's head ganglion . |
| 18 | Because of this , the tobacco industry has been legally obliged for some years now to print health warnings on packets . |
| 19 | I suppose , after all , I 've had it since ‘ 66 , so I 've been well known for 26 years , which is a long time , and I do n't get anything much out of it any more . ’ |
| 20 | Although no one had been hanged in Ireland since 1954 and capital punishment had been abolished for most categories of murder in 1964 [ see p. 19227 ] , it had been nominally retained for those categories specified above . |
| 21 | The Darlington to Hartlepool service whose direct link ends in May has been particularly criticised for reduced frequencies , later first trains and early finishing last trains . |
| 22 | Government approval has been increasingly required for minor projects , which normally can not generate income . |
| 23 | He had been fully retired for three years and happily occupied with reading and local committee work before Pat retired as home help supervisor for a London borough . |
| 24 | ( This had , however , not been fully enforced for some years , and it was estimated that around 15,000 abortions were performed annually in Belgium . ) |
| 25 | Once a church it has now been cleverly converted for recreational purposes . |