Example sentences of "have been [verb] for [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | DEAN Jones , ever-present during an era of Australian domination and English humiliation , has been dumped for this summer 's Ashes battle . |
| 32 | A particularly influential way of studying them was outlined by Ninian Smart , one of the first members of the Shap Working Party which has been campaigning for this approach since the early 1970s : religions each have at least six dimensions : doctrinal , mythological , ethical , ritual , experiential and social . |
| 33 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 34 | Hobson and McCarley 's thesis has also been developed in a recent essay by Martin Seligman and Amy Yellen , whose title — " What is a dream ? " — has been borrowed for this chapter . |
| 35 | A value of £3 million has been used for that purpose . |
| 36 | BELOW The same evidence has been used for this house , but the reconstruction is quite different . |
| 37 | At the time of going to press , not one person has been nominated for this post . |
| 38 | It has been advanced for some time by both the Liberal party and the Electoral Reform Society . |
| 39 | Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government . |
| 40 | This comes even when death has been expected for some time , but is even more dramatic when the death is sudden . |
| 41 | I must say that the black and gold hardware that has been chosen for this guitar is excellent , too . |
| 42 | The Department of Health 's annual Keep Warm , Keep Well campaign to advise elderly people has been launched for this winter . |
| 43 | In the UK , this ideal has been eroding for some time and seems unlikely to survive the escalating costs of current treatments . |
| 44 | God 's plan is held to be comprehensive , and has been set for all time . |
| 45 | No date has been set for any development to start at St Wulstans . |
| 46 | ‘ It was only an idea he had , based on the way Robert has been behaving for some time . |
| 47 | The new sales office has been established for some time , as has the computer system connected on direct line to the main processor at Elderslie . |
| 48 | A reward of £7,000 has been offered for any information . |
| 49 | The latter phenomenon has been known for some time , Zwaardemaker recording several ‘ cancelling pairs ’ as far back as 1875 , which included : |
| 50 | The powerful hydrogen bonding capacity of fluoride , discussed by John Emsley , has been known for some time , but its potential for interfering with the vitally important hydrogen bonds between biomolecules has only recently begun to receive attention . |
| 51 | It has been known for some time that eyes give out bioelectric signals — the retina has a positive charge , the cornea is negative . |
| 52 | Segmentation is not an innovation in woodturning , and has been known for some time . |
| 53 | It has been known for some time that the majority of fibres from the left and right eyes converge upon single cells in the visual cortex of the cat and monkey ( Hubel and Wiesel , 1967 ) . |
| 54 | Although the link between social deprivation and road accident casualty rates has been known for some time , the scale of the problem has not been assessed either nationally or locally . |
| 55 | Is not the Minister aware that it has been known for some time that four times as many women as men suffer the chronic pain that comes from the loss of movement in and the fracture of hip joints ? |
| 56 | It has been known for some time that the inactive form of ALDH2 is present in about 50% of Japanese and Chinese and is associated with high acetaldehyde concentrations , an exaggerated flush response to alcohol , and seems to protect against alcoholism . |
| 57 | It has been known for some time that versatile plastics could be made from vegetable matter but production costs have been prohibitive . |
| 58 | It has been known for some time that the Inland Revenue has been taking a close interest in the marketing practices of livestock farmers in parts of Wales and the West Country . |
| 59 | We assume that it is enough that the new way will prove better than the old way once it has been tried for some time . |
| 60 | McTear 's version of Garvey 's system has been adapted for this purpose with the addition of one category — the potential request for specification — which our data seemed to demand . |