Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The desire to outshine others provoked extravagance , such as that shown by a Marquise who wrote to a friend : ‘ I have been invited to Compiègne for a week so I have sold a mill ! ’ |
| 2 | proposals have been invited from consultants for the Speed Enforcement Planning Project |
| 3 | ACCOUNTANTS handling the liquidation of a North-East nursing home company have been inundated with offers for the business . |
| 4 | I have been prepared for death for many years . ’ |
| 5 | Whilst computing was the cowboy contractors in in order for our members to keep their jobs hours have been cut , bonuses have been cut and arrangements for a working year have been changed and many many other things have been altered in order for people to save their jobs within local authority services . |
| 6 | A further 7,150 redundancies have been announced by companies for January , but the affected regions are still to be specified . |
| 7 | Seven Egyptian terrorists have been sentenced to death for their part in the murder of a British nurse . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , I know a few Romanies have been sent to prison for poaching — but so have a great many gorgios . |
| 9 | Chimpanzees have been reared in darkness for varying periods after birth in order to test their subsequent perceptual capacity . |
| 10 | Studies of the relationship between communication and socio-economic change and political transition have been conducted by WACC for a long time . |
| 11 | The reason is that the Mentawi islands have been isolated from Sumatra for between 50,000 and one million years . |
| 12 | In many respects the management of GEAR has been ineffective : goals have been defined too broadly , simply to ensure consensus ; organizations have been assimilated within GEAR for purely cosmetic purposes ; power has been too diffuse ; and too much has been made of environmental improvements when the local economy has been subject to dramatic changes and unemployment has risen substantially . |
| 13 | Major grants have been given to churches for their townscape value as well as for their intrinsic architectural importance . |
| 14 | One problem is that key settlements have been seen as panacea for all rural problems , irrespective of social and regional context . |
| 15 | All patients from that practice who have been admitted to any department of Bassetlaw Hospital ( except the units of psychiatry and paediatrics , which have their own similar systems ) have been assessed on admission for their likely needs on discharge . |
| 16 | It is true that over the years a few railway signalmen have been convicted of manslaughter for wrongful acts and omissions leading to fatal train crashes , but there is not the natural resort to the criminal law which is now a feature of road-traffic cases . |
| 17 | Captain Ian Smith and Peter Jones were playing in the Scottish Trial ; both have been selected as replacements for the Calcutta Cup . |
| 18 | ANDREW GREEN , of Warrington A.C. , and Brenda Walker , a former Liverpool Women 's 10k winner from the Isle of Man , have been selected by Britain for the IAAF World Marathon Cup in San Sebastian , Spain , on October 31 . |
| 19 | This research project would discover whether practices have been developed in courts for providing magistrates with impartial guidance , and how frequently GAL 's are appointed . |
| 20 | All of which have been supported by WACC for some years . |
| 21 | Considerable investments have been made in equipment for DTP and publication graphics from 1989/90 to 1993/93 , but the staffing to take advantage of these systems has only increased by one half-post in the same time . |
| 22 | The cost of this year 's show has been put at £350,000 , but admission prices have been kept at £6 for adults , £5 for senior citizens and £3 for children . |
| 23 | The cost of this year 's show has been put at £350,000 , but admission prices have been kept at £6 for adults , £5 for senior citizens and £3 for children . |
| 24 | These have been kept at bay for 40 years by the power and special pleading of the vested interests who are right now busily working out how to control the new Heritage Agency . |
| 25 | Inset : Goldfish have been kept in Britain for almost 300 years . |
| 26 | The same applies to pedigree dogs which have been kept in kennels for most of their lives . |
| 27 | For each study , the conclusions on each future studied have been categorized into support for Samuelson , contradiction of Samuelson , and no relationship between price volatility and maturity . |
| 28 | Every week the memoranda which have been written by ministers for discussion in cabinet are delivered to the Palace , followed by the minutes of the ensuing cabinet meeting . |
| 29 | June Smith 's daughter , Tracey and her children have been treated in hospital for shock . |
| 30 | The answer is none of these things have been undertaken as strategies for the church . |