Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have been [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | More important is the fact that many of the draft 's boldest strokes would seem a lot more realistic if they had been destined for Mark Fisher and a Labour government . |
| 32 | There was no evidence as to what the Perots ' attitude would have been if they had been asked for more than $2.5m. for Caliban . |
| 33 | Yet they were now learning to kiss as if they had been made for one another , she thought in panic . |
| 34 | Alan Carr , Aberconwy 's chief executive , said : ‘ Do n't go back until they have been checked for safety by the public utilities . ’ |
| 35 | At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week . |
| 36 | Should the elective resolution cease to have effect , if the authority has lasted for 5 years or more before the election it expires forthwith : otherwise it has effect as if it had been given for a fixed period of 5 years . |
| 37 | Though the stone was large , the ornate gold band was small , and it fitted as if it had been made for her . |
| 38 | It had all trees on it and looked as if it had been made for picnics . |
| 39 | He took to the Cobra position as if it had been designed for him . |
| 40 | ‘ It seems that the establishment thinking is that if it 's been done for 175 years , it must be all right . |
| 41 | Inside , it looks as if it 's been used for tank practice . |
| 42 | We ca n't hurt her — humiliate her like this when she 's expecting to marry him in just a few weeks , even if it has been arranged for family reasons , and not for love . |
| 43 | A ley can really only be said to be confirmed if it has been walked for most of its length . |
| 44 | Please ensure that you are currently the associated user of the package ie. either the package manager or the nominated approver ( if it has been submitted for approval ) . |
| 45 | Please ensure that you are currently the associated user of the package ie. either the package manager or the nominated approver ( if it has been submitted for approval ) also that you have LIFESPAN Quality Assurer privilege . |
| 46 | If he had been briefed for a mission in which he did not participate , he would then have been kept incommunicado until he did finally leave . |
| 47 | If he has been arrested for an arrestable offence , there may also be a power to search his home under section 18 . |
| 48 | Now when you say right across , I mean you you 've ta seen the photos of , of er shell pitted ground with the nineteen fourteen eighteen war , well that 's how Bentley was then cos it had been rooted for coal and nineteen twenty six strike everybody got it all out cos there was a lot of top surface coal , course it was just left there was a lot of mole holes , stuff from the furnaces when they tip tipped the slag , it was up and down and there was Buttons Brook , was n't it Buttons Brook across there , called Buttons Brook there was a pool across there called Leg of Lamb but I mean it , it er you can imagine what I 'm trying to say , what the ground was like to go over in pitch black night , to go over there and we went out and course we was issued with er ammunition which was one of the o only times I can remember when we went really out prepared with live ammunition , and er we scouted and scouted till daybreak and we did n't find nothing . |
| 49 | Michael Heseltine , when Secretary of State for the Environment , introduced a simple test , which is now permanently enshrined in the Planning circulars : permission will not normally be granted for the demolition of a listed building unless it has been offered for sale on the open market , preferably freehold . |
| 50 | They 'd be secondhand shoes because they 've been worn for three days . |
| 51 | She was well aware that it would seem thoroughly feeble — if not downright pathetic — to refuse to accompany him to New York simply because they had been separated for almost five years . |
| 52 | The justice ministry said yesterday , however , that because they had been held for more than two years without trial , they were released . |
| 53 | The basic view is best expressed by Skinner himself : ‘ A person disposed to act because he has been reinforced for acting may feel the conditions of his body at such a time and call it ‘ felt purpose' ’ , but what behaviourism rejects is the causal efficacy of that feeling . ’ |
| 54 | The third party is now commonly known as an expert , usually because he has been chosen for his expertise about the issue between the parties . |
| 55 | At lunch , Dick Hansen decided that the pieces he could see ( because it had been disassembled for shipping ) from the pictures merited a closer look and so Dick called the owner to verify the price . |
| 56 | Our use of some light music on the Fort San Programme was excused because it had been requested for those patients recovering in hospital . |
| 57 | ( In fact it is Grade II starred because it has been inhabited for more than 1,000 years . ) |
| 58 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 59 | These are called reaves and , while they have been known for a long time , their age , extent and probable purpose have only recently been recognised . |
| 60 | Since they have been selected for fast growth , these birds are only seven or eight weeks old when they are transported — really just overgrown chicks . |