Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This reaction has been implicated in the generation of reactive oxygen species in ischemic reperfusion injury , a mechanism which has been recently postulated for inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 32 | The extent of these learning skills has been ingeniously studied for individual bees by Randolf Menzel in Berlin over the past two decades , and he has been able to clarify the role of many regions of the bee 's head ganglion . |
| 33 | Because of this , the tobacco industry has been legally obliged for some years now to print health warnings on packets . |
| 34 | ‘ 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 . |
| 35 | Instead , it appears to have been wholly ignored for 60 years until it was mentioned briefly by Gauze ( 1934 ) in his book The Struggle for Existence . |
| 36 | True ivory is one of the few substances to have been highly esteemed for symbolic purposes wherever it could be obtained . |
| 37 | This company , in turn , departed , and by the 1970s , Millbottom had been partially converted for domestic use . |
| 38 | The plutonium , the first of an estimated 30-40 tonnes processed in Europe from spent Japanese uranium fuel , had been officially designated for commercial use to fire a new generation of Japanese fast-breeder reactors . |
| 39 | The racial mixture was soon to be sharpened , as the mid-century railway boom got under way , by new waves of immigrants from Ireland , the Forest of Dean , Herefordshire , and Somerset , but already the social , political , and religious pattern of the new South Wales and the eastern valleys of Monmouthshire had been firmly set for another century . |
| 40 | Although no one had been hanged in Ireland since 1954 and capital punishment had been abolished for most categories of murder in 1964 [ see p. 19227 ] , it had been nominally retained for those categories specified above . |
| 41 | Aden was at that time an RAF command , in which the operational policy of air control had been successfully applied for some years . |
| 42 | Last year the council called in the police to investigate claims that council-owned building materials had been allegedly misappropriated for private use . |
| 43 | He took her arm and led her to the dining room , where the gleaming long rectangular table had been impeccably set for two . |
| 44 | She was sure he would run for it : she had been fully prepared for that . |
| 45 | He had been fully retired for three years and happily occupied with reading and local committee work before Pat retired as home help supervisor for a London borough . |
| 46 | The lower limb , said Lovejoy , had been totally reorganised for upright walking and there were no compensatory modifications in the upper limb to suggest the creature was still partly arboreal . |
| 47 | The Committee drew attention to the fact that during the experiment fewer Members had been formally penalised for bad behaviour than in several recent sessions , and reported that neither the Speaker nor the Community had any evidence that rowdiness had significantly increased ; on the possible long-term effect , early evidence was ‘ mildly encouraging ’ . |
| 48 | The Teds took their name from the ‘ Edwardian ’ dress-style which had been originally promoted for fashion-conscious city gents who wished to cut an affluent fifties dash . |
| 49 | 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 . ’ |
| 50 | Such group-frequency correlations have been extensively developed for organic compounds , and similar correlations can be drawn up for inorganic species [ 19 ] . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | If you have been validly dismissed for gross misconduct , you can not add the statutory minimum notice period to your period of service . |
| 53 | Examination pieces have been specially written for each grade in a variety of styles and will be performed at the exam by the student using backing tapes . |
| 54 | The range includes a cleanser , toner and moisturiser , which have been specially formulated for irritable complexions . |
| 55 | Two tables have been specially built for this purpose , allowing a large area of carpet to be viewed under daylight bulbs . |