Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] [be] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The single parent building a home on supplementary benefit does n't have the tools acquired by workers who 've been earning for twenty or forty years . |
| 2 | And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements . |
| 3 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |
| 4 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |
| 5 | The Red Cross primarily visits those inmates who are former National Guardsmen or who have been sentenced for counter-revolutionary activity . |
| 6 | This work demonstrates that there are considerable grounds for optimism regarding the performance of students with non-standard entry qualifications who have been prepared for higher education through special Access Courses . |
| 7 | Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ? |
| 8 | While there are no completely accurate figures , the two national disability surveys carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) in the late 1960s and 1980s indicate that there are alive today just under 100,000 people aged 50 or older who have been disabled for 20 or more years , and that around another 200,000 will reach this age within the next 10 to 20 years ( Harris , 1971 ; Martin et al . , |
| 9 | There is some evidence that cervical cancer is more common in women who smoke cigarettes , especially heavy smokers or women who have been smoking for several years . |
| 10 | Much will depend on how it seeks to solve the long-running debate about merging income tax and the national insurance system ; whether benefits , including pensions , are to be universal or selective ; and , if selective , how the state is to deal with obligations to people who have been contributing for many years to what they were told was national insurance . |
| 11 | The ‘ Care in the Community ’ initiative sought to extend this cooperation to help people who have been hospitalized for long periods . |
| 12 | Amongst the delegates were three British senior tutors , who have been seconded for two years to the EBI financed by the ODA , to assist with the setting up of tuition and training services — Geoff Sales , Phil Brear and Pal Mangla . |
| 13 | POLICE in Craigavon are searching for two teenage girls who have been missing for five days . |