Example sentences of "for [noun pl] has [be] " in BNC.

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1 A comprehensive energy efficiency labelling scheme for houses has been launched by MVM , a consultancy specialising in property and planning information .
2 Demand for prospectuses has been such that an Independent scribe seeking a Warburgs telephone number for publication was told the firm really would prefer that it did not appear in print .
3 It 's the same story up the road in Blaisdon … a village that for decades has been famed for its plums .
4 The first of more than a hundred special advice centres for carers has been opened by the Princess Royal .
5 A Government plan to turn a disused juvenile prison into a detention centre for immigrants has been strongly criticised .
6 An order may be made staying an action , until a request for particulars has been completed , or , in the case of defendants , barring them from defending ( see Ord 5 , r 9(3) and ( 4 ) ) .
7 Helen Mirren plays the role of Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison who for years has been the victim of sexual discrimination in the police force .
8 NEWS that an investigation has been started into the possible mis-assessment of ethnic minority children in Strathclyde has highlighted an issue which for years has been simmering in Britain 's classrooms and education departments .
9 More recently , prevention underpinned by a Fabian value system urging greater state support for families has been contrasted with permanency planning ( Equality for Children , 1983 ; Holman , 1988 ) .
10 And at Tangham , near to Woodbridge in Suffolk , a trail for wheelchairs has been incorporated into the Phoenix Trail , commemorating the replanting of the woodlands devastated in the great storms of 1987 .
11 In response to a petition by residents in the area , the proposal to construct an underbridge for pedestrians has been replaced by an overbridge to link Hope Lane to St Mark 's Place , Portobello .
12 An emergency appeal for blankets has been issued , but with winter just around the corner , they 're already predicting a crisis this Christmas .
13 This article gives a series of anonymous examples to suggest that the impact of similar guides for editors has been patchy and to make some suggestions for better communication .
14 A writ for damages has been issued . ’
15 A developing issue for actuaries has been the question of the possible use of professional certification of reserves for general insurance .
16 In fact one study ( Armstrong 1984 ) reports that over the last century in Britain each 4 per cent increase in hourly wage rates for males has been followed by a 1 per cent reduction in hours worked per year .
17 The case for loans has been most strongly argued by a group at the London School of Economics whose main criticism of an entirely grant-based approach is that it favours better-off families , and as it is currently operated it leaves many students in poverty .
18 It must be said , however , that this emerging new image for consultancies has been helped enormously by the fact that these quoted consultancies are substantially based in financial public relations which , of course , the City of London , Merchant Banks , and business interests in general do understand and accept as a legitimate part of their world .
19 Working for patients has been criticised for failing to emphasise the importance of people and not being more specific about the need for personnel management .
20 Although it has been in existence for some considerable time , train operation for passengers has been provided by battery-electric power .
21 However , enthusiasm for mazes has been renewed in recent years and , with over 100 , Britain now has more mazes open to the public than any other European country .
22 A film about an estate agency specially set up for squatters has been criticised for promoting an unacceptable activity .
23 Staying motivated for matches has been a problem for the teenager , who is trying to juggle her tennis with more normal aspects of life in Florida .
24 A faster and easier to use version of Timeworks Publisher for Windows has been unveiled by Huntingdon-based GST Software .
25 SIR Ian McKellen ( Letters , March 29 ) must not be allowed to get away with his blanket assertion that equality for homosexuals has been established throughout Europe .
26 Obtaining planning permission for developments has been much easier than would otherwise be the case .
27 The particular challenge for donors has been how best to support the fragile but vital process of transition to a pluralist democracy and market economies in the region .
28 A POSTER campaign to help farmers make their farms safer for children has been launched by NFU Mutual chairman Alun Evans at the Mutual 's head office at Stratford-upon-Avon .
29 The unthinking equation of widowhood for women with retirement for men has been challenged .
30 One of the most puzzling features for historians has been the apparent rise in illegitimacy , a European-wide phenomenon , in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century , which has given rise to various interpretations of working-class sexual life .
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