Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Occasionally official syllabuses contain very detailed advice for teachers and in one case ( Botswana ) , a separate , loose-leaf file has been prepared for each grade , but in many cases it is the teachers ' guide , or even the pupils ' text which provides the real plan from which the teacher works . |
| 32 | The aim is to check that sufficient information has been gathered for each variable to make statistics upon them valid . |
| 33 | This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change . |
| 34 | It has been felt for some time that the procedure and forms relating to the granting of legal aid in criminal causes could be improved , and the introduction of legal aid in the District Courts has led to the position being scrutinised and a new procedure and application form introduced . |
| 35 | The gall bladder epithelium has been considered for many years to be an excellent model for the study of the physiological properties of epithelial cells and in particular ion transport . |
| 36 | EUROPEAN funding for the Highlands worth £20 million a year could cover health initiatives — the first time that spending on health has been considered for such grant aid . |
| 37 | DEAN Jones , ever-present during an era of Australian domination and English humiliation , has been dumped for this summer 's Ashes battle . |
| 38 | Boarding out ( or fostering ) has been practised for many years and the Curtis Committee on the care of children strongly urged that this should be the first choice in finding substitute homes . |
| 39 | Replacement of the undilatably strictured lower oesophagus by a short segment of left hemicolon has been practised for several decades . |
| 40 | The possibility of a connection between the disappearance of coronae and the onset of massive winds has been discussed for many years . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | A value of £3 million has been used for that purpose . |
| 43 | The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry . |
| 44 | The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research . |
| 45 | G. affinis is a small ( 4.6 cm long ) , surface-feeding minnow which originated in the United States and has been used for many years in many parts of the world to control mosquito larvae . |
| 46 | Let us begin by trying to understand the rationale for the system ; after all , it has been used for many years and must presumably have had some point to it . |
| 47 | It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis . |
| 48 | These are in addition to applications in the detergents field , in which it has been used for many years . |
| 49 | Our system of construction has been used for many years all over this country , by the sponsoring authorities and others , and erm we do n't have the earthquake requirements , but we do need many high value schools both quickly and on time , and we 've completed something like 2,000 projects similar to this over many years . |
| 50 | Salt has been used for many centuries as a preservative , whereby it is left on food to withdraw the moisture present by the process of osmosis . |
| 51 | BELOW The same evidence has been used for this house , but the reconstruction is quite different . |
| 52 | The award for best British film went to The Crying Game , which , along with Howards End , has been nominated for several Oscars . |
| 53 | At the time of going to press , not one person has been nominated for this post . |
| 54 | A different mechanism has been suggested for those viruses that are already enclosed within a membrane in their free-living state . |
| 55 | To ‘ off-comed 'uns ’ it is not even a large village , with only 2,080 inhabitants , but to the native it is a town because it has held a market charter since 1223 and although no market has been held for many years , the charter was read once a year in the market place until 1939 . |
| 56 | One solution that has been proposed for some words is ‘ reclaiming ’ — investing a negative word with a more positive meaning . |
| 57 | Retrovirus-mediated gene transfer into transplantable cells has been proposed for several conditions , but treatment of immunodeficiency caused by adenosine deaminase ( ADA ) deficiency appears imminent . |
| 58 | It has been advanced for some time by both the Liberal party and the Electoral Reform Society . |
| 59 | This comes even when death has been expected for some time , but is even more dramatic when the death is sudden . |
| 60 | Moreover , experience in New Zealand and Australia ( where the strict rule has been relaxed for some years ) has not shown that the non-availability of materials has raised these practical problems . |