Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] for [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 South Korean boats fishing for tuna have been singled out for blame .
2 All the apartments at the Kensington have been reserved solely for Club 18–30 .
3 In Ondo , Kano and plateau States new television establishments already exist , staff have been recruited , contracts with equipment suppliers have been signed and people have been sent abroad for training .
4 The tapestries were in remarkably good condition when found but have been sent out for restoration several times this century and final work on the last two will be finished next June .
5 Draft specifications for general SVQs in this area have been sent out for consultation , and a seminar was held to discuss them at the end of October .
6 In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly .
7 Some of these files contain sections of program instructions ( for example , LIB ) which have been split off for convenience .
8 It is not the intention here to detail a course blueprint , partly because such prescriptiveness would stand in contradiction to the learner-centred tenet of primary practice , and partly because stimulating and informed models have been presented elsewhere for discussion ( Bullock , 1975 ; Hawkins , 1984 ; Sinclair , 1982 ) .
9 Commercial computer-aided design ( CAD ) programs have been developed specifically for garden design and work scheduling .
10 Since the 1971 Act , most immigrants have needed work permits and these have been granted mostly for work in those industries like the health service and hotels , where there is a shortage of domestic workers .
11 In the meantime modest additional sums have been set aside for research and other support for the subject areas concerned , and some funds are available for further increased infrastructure support once additional accommodation can be made available .
12 Medicine and money from the public health budget are being unofficially transferred to the military health services and at least five regional hospitals and a number of smaller health centres have been taken over for use by the military .
13 These have been taken down for conservation and it is hoped to replace them with copies .
14 Route finding is easy , though four tunnels which originally formed part of the railway line have been closed down for safety reasons .
15 Five pubs worth seven hundred thousand pounds have been put up for auction by one of the big breweries .
16 The six whose names have been put forward for election have to be informed before election night , as they have to agree to take on this responsible job and they must be there on the night to take the oath before the close of the meeting .
17 They have been bred specially for chipping : they are not good for boiling because they tend to explode , but they cook fast and — hideous thought — absorb fat quickly .
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