Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The situation has been eased slightly for my parents since a community nurse has been visiting Jennifer , but I must admit I 'd rapidly been coming to the conclusion that something else would be needed very soon . |
| 2 | The mines had suffered disruption since July and 220 workers had been dismissed earlier for taking industrial action , and according to the managing director at least two weeks ' production had been lost . |
| 3 | The differential impact of national and industry environmental forces upon the structure , process and outcomes of industrial relations have been examined empirically for the important metalworking industry across five countries . |
| 4 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 5 | ‘ If you were brought up in Brixton or Hackney , and have been stopped regularly for no reason by the police , you are bound to view them with a bit of hatred ’ … . |
| 6 | At this time of day , however , when law and equity have been joined together for over 70 years , principles must be reconsidered in the light of their combined effect . |
| 7 | The final " Dawn " sequence then has the effect both of a reprise , closing the musical form , and of an ironic comment on the human tragedy which , when it is taken out of the public arena into the privacy of Grimes 's mind , actually passes out of the consciousness and memory of those who , only a few hours before , have been clamouring loudest for its execution . |
| 8 | The expediter — ‘ Joy ’ — was the envoy of a client of mine : the Construction and Development Corporation of the Philippines ( CDCP ) , a local company my bank had been courting unsuccessfully for years . |
| 9 | Some employees have been sacked just for being HIV positive . |
| 10 | The tower was demolished by lightning in 1821 and since the present Abbey clock tower was erected on the site in 1822 the papingo has been placed there for every contest . |
| 11 | These patients had been treated earlier for pernicious anaemia in the same hospital between 1972 and 1985 . |
| 12 | I mean i i i in a sense I think he was , he 's been criticized unfairly for , for this because he he , he copped all the blame for absolute egalitarianism , whereas in fact if , if you look at the details behind it he was aware of the dangers of encroachment on the middle peasant and was warning against that and saying look this should n't happen . |
| 13 | We have a great deal of sympathy er but whereas I do n't think some of the ideas that have been floated tonight for a Cornwall and Gibraltar West seat er or erm any kind of link up between Cornwall and any tail end of a Welsh seat we do n't think is practical and I think he 's got ta solve this problem er within the confines of Cornwall being regarded as part of England if not Anglo Saxon . |
| 14 | Because they 're a year younger than I am , two years younger and they 've been registered now for six , seven , eight , or nine years . |
| 15 | Some breeds have been developed primarily for guarding livestock and property . |
| 16 | Although the modules have been developed primarily for those in adult basic education , they are suited to a wide range of client groups . |
| 17 | Briefings have been developed exclusively for senior management ultimately responsible for the design , development , marketing and selling of IT-based products and systems . |
| 18 | It was as large a set as had been developed earlier for general use , except for the London area ( where a few larger sets had been installed in the 1930s and some larger sets of somewhat antiquated design were also completed by the BEA in its early years ) , There were , however , doubts about the flexibility in start-up and shut-down times for the new 60MW and other new designs , and a fortiori about more advanced designs . |
| 19 | However , no services have been developed explicitly for the prevention of suicide attempts . |
| 20 | Commercial computer-aided design ( CAD ) programs have been developed specifically for garden design and work scheduling . |
| 21 | The Primary Enterprise Pack — This support pack has been developed especially for primary school teachers by the Polytechnic of North London . |
| 22 | Its 1,360cc four-cylinder engine , mated to a five-speed gearbox , is new , having been developed specially for the new generation of AXs from the mainstream-car petrol engine . |
| 23 | IF YOU 'RE tense and upset in Japan , a phone line has been developed specially for you . |
| 24 | The concept of quality of life of older people , particularly in residential settings but also in the community , has been the subject of considerable research and academic interest ( e.g. Hughes , 1990 ) and has also been developed considerably for application in inspection and quality assurance procedures ( e.g. Sinclair and Gibb , 1990 ; DoH , 1989c ) . |
| 25 | I would say that they ought to be able to spend at a level which is within the S S As that have been given both for the county and for the districts , and therefore we should be below the three hundred and seventy eight . |
| 26 | The British Standard BS 6652 for child resistance is granted to specific combinations of bottle and cap and has been given only for some makes of closures on BS 1679 bottles , which are the ones we use in this hospital . |
| 27 | So far ethics committee approval has been given only for the treatment of individual patients as a debate continues about the risks of genetic-medicine misuse . |
| 28 | During the Cienfuegos speech Castro confirmed that work on the Juraga nuclear power plant in Cienfuegos , the construction work on which was begun in 1972 and which was now 90 per cent complete at an estimated cost of US$1,000 million , had been halted indefinitely for lack of funds . |
| 29 | I 've been using both for over a year now and the best I 've been able to get is a ratio of 1.8 to 1 . |
| 30 | But in the past year German authorities withdrew approval for certain components which Cameron and some other hot-air balloon manufacturers have been using worldwide for the past 20 years . |