Example sentences of "[vb base] been [adv] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Authoring Systems'--computer systems which allow a non-programmer ‘ author ’ to create a program automatically--have been widely used for industrial training software and offer unrivalled productivity . |
| 2 | I suppose , after all , I 've had it since ‘ 66 , so I 've been well known for 26 years , which is a long time , and I do n't get anything much out of it any more . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been completely ignored for a long time , which has been a pretty good thing because it 's given us time to develop , ’ beams Brett . |
| 4 | I 've been publicly blamed for letting the team down — vilified by the Press ! |
| 5 | They 've been specifically made for the over-35s , and some contain vitamin E and sunscreens to moisturise and protect skins from ultra-violet rays . |
| 6 | Our resorts have been carefully selected for the range of walking , rambling , swimming and boating they offer . |
| 7 | This is because these felines have been carefully selected for their special kinds of coats . |
| 8 | All our hotels have been carefully selected for the excellent value they provide within their grade . |
| 9 | All Citalia hotels in Florence have been carefully selected for quality and value and are all within a 15–20 minute walk of the city 's famous cathedral and the Ponte Vecchio . |
| 10 | The Tests themselves have been carefully scrutinized for balance and consistency to ensure they are reliable time and time again . |
| 11 | Many public houses have been grossly neglected for years by their owners , yet the owners now demand that the tenants pay all the cost of putting the public houses into good order . |
| 12 | The increased participation rates from the 1950s to the 1980s have been largely accounted for by reductions in the gaps in employment records around childbearing . |
| 13 | Such group-frequency correlations have been extensively developed for organic compounds , and similar correlations can be drawn up for inorganic species [ 19 ] . |
| 14 | Strike action on the coalfields was the major catalyst for the 1926 General Strike , and the miners have been widely perceived for several decades as at the forefront of trade union militancy in the United Kingdom . |
| 15 | They have been widely used for over a hundred and fifty years . |
| 16 | Although open tipped tubes and intraluminal strain gauges have been widely used for the measurement of contractile activity in the colon , it has been argued on theoretical grounds that they detect only lumen occluding contractions , and therefore underestimate the incidence of contractile activity . |
| 17 | The Bush Administration has declared a ban on the import of fish caught with drift-nets , which have been widely blamed for killing dolphins , whales and seabirds . |
| 18 | Few species have adapted so closely to their particular rivers as caddisflies , stoneflies , and mayflies , which , in their turn , have been cunningly imitated for bait by generations of fishermen . |
| 19 | Reading schemes have been heavily criticized for a range of reasons . |
| 20 | Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are a relatively new class of antidepressants that have been heavily promoted for use as first line treatment in depression . |
| 21 | I know that Quins have been heavily criticised for fielding weak teams in league games , but it is an amateur sport and they are entitled to select whomsoever they want to see out there . |
| 22 | Some of those who have been successfully treated for candidiasis will still have residual problems due to food intolerance . |
| 23 | Collocations ( and the concordances from which they are derived ) have been successfully used for a variety of linguistic purposes . |
| 24 | It could be that these varieties , which have been selectively bred for their appearance may , and I can only speculate here , have suffered some genetic or other biological imbalance caused through this selective breeding , which has opened the fish to this problem . |
| 25 | Such theories have been plausibly criticized for their romantic and Utopian strains , also for the way they echo and sometimes invoke a post-Freudian version of the polymorphous perverse . |
| 26 | The relatively cumbersome medium of microfilm has never presented the sort of opportunities now presented by digitisation , for bringing together collections of complementary material which have been physically separated for decades or even centuries . |
| 27 | If they 're offered , as they have been for years and years ever since the industrial revolution , things that have been cynically designed for the working classes , is it surprising that we have a nation of people who are supposed to have no visual standards ? |
| 28 | As is my usual practice , I pruned the first year 's growth back hard to produce several stems instead of just one , and I have been well rewarded for my efforts . |
| 29 | However , systematic records from areas totalling about 750 square kilometres of very varied habitat , which have been well searched for the species , recently showed a breeding density of consistently less than one pair per 2,500 acres ( 10 sq . |
| 30 | ‘ Your lordship will be pleased to hear that the estates have been well cared for . ’ |