Example sentences of "'s been [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | He 's been jailed for firearms , fraud and passport offences and caught smuggling 4 tons of cannabis into Australia . |
| 32 | It 's been known for a very long time that from these cases you can isolate this organism C diphtheria bacterium which you saw in the practical classes and has this distinctive stayed property where er certain granules can be stayed up and also the arrangement of the cells is rather reminiscent of what called Chinese lettering . |
| 33 | It 's been known for some time that dioxins are created when chlorine is used to make paper white , but in many situations it 's been difficult to find substitutes . |
| 34 | The Lockerbie enquiry 's been suspended for two days after a solicitor representing families of American victims , died in a car crash . |
| 35 | ‘ Perhaps it 's been buried for ten years , ’ she whispered to herself . |
| 36 | Stratus Computer Inc now has the only Asian versions of Jyacc 's Application Manager JAM NLS for screen development , priced from $6,000 : It 's been localised for Korea with Hangul , Japan with Kanji and Katakana and China with traditional and simplified Chinese characters . |
| 37 | He 's been criticised for toying with big ideas ( such as the power of multinationals to destroy a community , in Local Hero ) , then dropping them in favour of Ealingesque whimsy . |
| 38 | But it 's been criticised for being unsightly . |
| 39 | You know , he 's been picked for the conservatives to stand has he ? |
| 40 | Now he 's been banned for another 12 months at Banbury , Oxfordshire . |
| 41 | And also , back in their team is erm Michael Lee who 's been banned for some years now , and he 's raring to go and erm I think they 're all coming down to prove a few points . |
| 42 | President Bill Clinton has been in the White House just a month but already he 's been proposed for Oxford University 's highest honour . |
| 43 | Yeah but I do n't think it 's been updated for so long . |
| 44 | No such luck I 'm afraid for a car swindler who 's been gaoled for two years after he was caught boarding the same holiday flight as his victim . |
| 45 | Ever since the Pill revolution of the sixties , it 's been taken for granted that the only obstacle to women 's enthusiasm for heterosexual sex — fear of pregnancy — has been removed . |
| 46 | A woman has offered to spend a hundred thousand pounds of her own money to reopen a village school that 's been closed for over a year . |
| 47 | I think it 's been closed for a long time actually . |
| 48 | But you know it surprises me I mean I know the church is , is closed and it 's been closed for a couple of years now and it looks a sight because now I do n't know how many members they 've got , at least a couple of them could go in there and cut all the brambles down . |
| 49 | Questions range from the extreme — ‘ My client 's been arrested for murder ’ — to the mundane — ‘ I have just received a mailshot from another firm which is quite appalling . ’ |
| 50 | No in fact he 's not , he 's been arrested for some other crime . |
| 51 | Elstree is not able to take all the aviation business that 's been displaced for weeks that I know of and , and for Hatfield I 've been notified by two people who are at present at Hatfield , one of whom is going to move to Stansted . |
| 52 | Inside , it looks as if it 's been used for tank practice . |
| 53 | It 's been used for centuries in the crafting of Buddhist religious statues and the grain is absolutely spectacular . |
| 54 | Wherever possible , re-use water that 's been used for washing vegetables , not-too dirty dishes , bathwater , rinse cycle of washing machine , etc ( again , only on outdoor plants ) . |
| 55 | Because that 's the old term that 's been used for however many years , and it 's still used by industry . |
| 56 | There had been a shop in Street I which is still there but it 's been used for other things now . |
| 57 | It 's quite rare to get the equipment that 's been used for this type of activity . |
| 58 | a thing that 's been used for a couple of months ! |
| 59 | She 's been admitted for a D and C. ’ |
| 60 | Well it 's been booked for three or four weeks has n't it ? |