Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They yesterday found out which rating band their houses had been placed in for the new tax , which starts next April . |
| 2 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 3 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 4 | One of the examples of work in progress discusses research that has been carried out for the European Commission as part of the CORINE Project . |
| 5 | For most sections construction has been carried out for the Regional Council by teams employed under the Special Measures Programme of the City of Edinburgh District Council , with financial support from the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 6 | Similar analyses have been carried out for the other major journals , and the full results are available in Will 1991 . |
| 7 | Other work on assessment of costs and benefits of such data have been carried out for the French government by Professor Didier ( 1990 ) . |
| 8 | If it had been someone else 's funeral George would have been looking out for the nearest pub . |
| 9 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 10 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 11 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 12 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 14 | Then you can tell me some more about that book you 've been buried in for the past week . " |
| 15 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 16 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 17 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 18 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 19 | ‘ The Division 's been going out for the last fifteen years ; slowly but surely . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Both of them play have represented Denmark at under-21 level while Morton has been called up for the senior squad . |
| 21 | John told her that Mick , who had finished his examinations for Higher School Certificate , had been called up for the Royal Air Force . |
| 22 | A short while after the alert had been called off for the missing officer , a CID friend contacted me to see if I could help with their ‘ enquiries ’ . |
| 23 | The show had been set up for the little jockey but maybe , at some time in the future , Mrs Butler would be interested . |
| 24 | Thus , in the vital days before September 1939 , not only had prime arrangements been undertaken in connection with aircraft and tanks , but the organisation had been laid down for the ready assembly of ambulance trains and casualty evacuation trains and , through the Mechanical and Electrical Engineers ' Consultative Committee , which was formed in the abortive crisis of September 1938 , to advise the Railway Executive Committee on matters pertaining to Railway Workshops , rolling stock and electrical undertakings . |
| 25 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 26 | I ca n't of course foretell er what 's gon na happen in Eastern Europe , but looking externally er at the lower interest rates and the er more competitive value of the pound and internally at the improved cash flow and the actions that we 've been taking over for the past couple of years and I can say that there 's now generally a more optimistic feeling in the air amongst our group companies . |
| 27 | Through the centuries about twenty-five houses had been built in Ploughman 's Lane , first of all for the minor gentry , the widows and kinsmen , for instance , of the lord of the manor ; in more recent times , equally large and widely spaced dwellings had been put up for the professional class . |
| 28 | Dr Peggy Heeks reports on research she has been carrying out for the British Library |
| 29 | OSF 's singular appearance changes the rules the industry has been playing by for the past few years , narrowing the gap between the two camps , and allowing more room for the players to manoeuvre . |
| 30 | The equality of opportunity and equal pay for work of equal value and all those things are are are are issues which er have been fought over for the last twenty years . |