Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now pressures are such that consent has finally been given for the southern by-pass , a scheme first proposed in 1916 . |
| 32 | A home has finally been found for the horse John Major was given as a birthday present eight months ago . |
| 33 | The DES has nevertheless been criticised for not giving enough training to teachers and for not providing adequate computer programs for the classroom . |
| 34 | David Anderson of Bures is a director of the Costa Rican company SACRAC , whose disease-free hybrid coconut palm seed has just been licensed for import into the United States , Mexico and Honduras . |
| 35 | While this has just been confirmed for the next 10 years , until recently there was some doubt as to whether it would be renewed . |
| 36 | One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier . |
| 37 | He proceeds to mooch about in a hang-dog way until he runs across his younger brother , quiet student Dennis ( William Sage ) who informs him their long-lost father has just been arrested for bombing the Pentagon 20 years previously . |
| 38 | Papillon has just been recaptured for the fourth time . |
| 39 | In the private sector , the British Council runs a Recognition Scheme under which more than 200 schools are now regularly inspected in terms of stringent criteria ; a similar scheme has just been established for State Colleges . |
| 40 | ACCORDING to the Daily Mail , a doctor in Florida has just been busted for charging people £12 a time for a new dieting aid . |
| 41 | It was n't an act of vanity , or even a professional kind of analysis ; it was more with the unease of a person who picks up something familiar and finds that , at some unrealised point in the recent past , it has somehow been exchanged for the property of a stranger . |
| 42 | In Kilarrow , a tile works has lately been erected for making drain-tiles ; a local Agricultural Society has been established for some years ( in fact 1838 ) and prizes been awarded for the improvement of the breed of black-cattle and sheep , and for the encouragement of green crop husbandry . |
| 43 | In Kilarrow , a tile works has lately been erected for making drain-tiles ; a local Agricultural Society has been established for some years ( in fact 1838 ) and prizes been awarded for the improvement of the breed of black-cattle and sheep , and for the encouragement of green crop husbandry . |
| 44 | A preliminary account of events up to the mid-1970s has already been given for both locales , which will stand as an account for Cramlington but some elaboration is necessary for North Shields . |
| 45 | Once operational , the existing scouring machine presently located in the dye house will be moved along-side its new partner , where foundation work has already been completed for this major operation . |
| 46 | The site of a former steelworks near Blantyre in Lanarkshire has already been earmarked for land reclamation using sludge . |
| 47 | This can be taken to mean that the work has already been printed for a limited number of people by private gift or circulation , but has not been published in the sense that it has been offered to the general public . |
| 48 | ‘ Tolstikov was an unknown as far as last year 's race was concerned , yet he went off and won it , ’ said Brace , who has already been selected for the Barcelona Olympics . |
| 49 | As an adopted ball for LTA sanctioned events , ( adoption into the LTA Sponsors Ball Pool ) , it has already been selected for us in this country at the 14 , 16 and 18 and under Midland Bank Junior Championships . |
| 50 | Ferrasse , rightly , explained that the former coach has already been punished for his misdemeanour , and he then threatened to resign from the Board unless the Dubroca issue was allowed to rest . |
| 51 | The choice has already been made for us . |
| 52 | ( 3 ) That on the taking of the said accounts and inquiry costs of and incidental to proceedings on an indemnity basis are not to be disallowed on the ground that an order has already been made for costs of and incidental to those proceedings to be taxed on a standard basis unless it should appear that in making the said order the court intended thereby to deprive the defendants of the right to add those costs or some part thereof to the mortgage security . |
| 53 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 54 | Warden , Chris Martin , has already been appointed for summer duty when the ‘ island ’ is visited by organised parties of bird watchers and other naturalists.Orford Ness has been purchased with the help of £2.3 million from the Countryside Commission and contributions from the National Heritage Memorial Fund , and Suffolk County and Suffolk Coastal councils . |
| 55 | The present evidence therefore suggests that the universe will probably expand forever , but all we can really be sure of is that even if the universe is going to recollapse , it wo n't do so for at least another ten thousand million years , since it has already been expanding for at least that long . |
| 56 | The JUMNA ( Junction Minimisation of Nucleic Acids ) program , described in detail in earlier publications ( 15–19 ) , has already been employed for studying base sequence effects within the various allomorphs of DNA and RNA , the conformation and stability of triple helices , the mechanism of base pair opening and the specificity of DNA-drug interactions . |
| 57 | DEW intends to oppose the cross town route even though planning approval has already been granted for part of it . |
| 58 | Through sponsorship and money collected by the roadside , more than £40,000 has already been raised for leukaemia research . |
| 59 | The trackbed within the Avon Valley has already been prepared for the relaying , with the ballast cleaned and put into piles ready for reuse . |
| 60 | Again no reference will be made to party authorities in the guberniia capital , since this has already been done for Smolensk . |