Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [adj] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although some of the Wealden towns may have been regional centres for craft specialisation , such as Battle with its leather working and shoemaking , most of them provided a wide range of services which allowed a high degree of virtual self-sufficiency to their surrounding areas . |
| 2 | As I use Taskmax and Windows 3 , both of which use SWAP designations , these would have been primary candidates for missing disk space , except in both cases the swap areas are allocated to E : \WIN — a subdirectory on a 3Mb RAM drive . |
| 3 | The proper sentence , taking account of all relevant factors , would have been five years for the robbery . |
| 4 | The idea is to give a taste of life outside for mental patients who may have been inside institutions for up to twenty years . |
| 5 | Besides , filling hot water bottles was not man 's work — fetching coal , sawing wood , even opening a bottle of wine would have been suitable occupations for Rupert to be discovered in , but not this . |
| 6 | Though had Simon produced such a ringing anti-apartheid statement as this there would surely have been little grounds for complaint about his Graceland trip . |
| 7 | As an agency working in the field of community development , the past two years should have been optimistic ones for Falls Community Council , as new money pumped through BAT has been made available to us and the groups we work for and with . |
| 8 | However the former economic attache for the US Embassy in Ireland , Kenneth McGuire , said that while market factors may have been important considerations for Raybestos , the relocation factor probably can not be entirely dismissed in the Raybestos case . |
| 9 | This alone would have been sufficient grounds for divorce as far as my Pop was concerned . |
| 10 | There may have been secret conclaves for this purpose . |