Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] been [verb] for this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 2 | In the Commons vote in June last year a majority of 123 was against any change , and MPs believed the issue had been settled for this Parliament . |
| 3 | In New York , visitors to the Studio Museum have been prepared for this recasting of Lam by a retrospective of his works on paper at the Americas Society , which travels to Barcelona 's Fundacio ‘ La Caixa ’ on 21 January . |
| 4 | At the time of going to press , not one person has been nominated for this post . |
| 5 | A seminar has been planned for this autumn and the Drouot Foundation has invited the Pavlovsk Museum to show its collection in Paris . |
| 6 | BELOW The same evidence has been used for this house , but the reconstruction is quite different . |
| 7 | The same spoon had been used for this for many years and was burnt black . |
| 8 | An appointment has been made for this morning , but there is expected to be a delay before results are known . |
| 9 | Although an adjoining area of ground had been purchased for this purpose , it was never developed as a burial ground and its virgin state allowed the Ekarro Housing Co-operative to complement the conversion of All Saints and St Barnabas with a new building , in the style of the surrounding villas , accommodating further flats for co-operative members ( Plate 26 ) . |
| 10 | He could feel a sense of power and satisfaction , as though his whole life had been lived for this . |
| 11 | No satisfactory explanation has been found for this spontaneous decline although changes in the nitrosamine content of foods may be one factor . |
| 12 | A solution has now been offered and , if we accept it , we were right : the ladies had truthfully reported what they had seen , but in fact it was a sort of fancy-dress fête champêtre organized by Robert de Montesquiou : as no official permission had been granted for this , the authorities denied all knowledge of it . |
| 13 | At present , no minister could answer a parliamentary question by saying that whatever his views on the matter , responsibility had been allocated for this function to Assistant Secretary Brown and it was up to that official to take whatever course of action he thought best to achieve the set objectives . |
| 14 | McTear 's version of Garvey 's system has been adapted for this purpose with the addition of one category — the potential request for specification — which our data seemed to demand . |
| 15 | As is traditional , the trophies which were won throughout the year had been saved for this occasion and presented to their recipients after dinner . |