Example sentences of "have been [verb] for [det] " in BNC.

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31 No radiometric ages less than about 3000 Ma have been obtained for any lunar samples except for a tentative date of 850 Ma for material thought to have been ejected and heated by the formation of Copernicus ( Figure 6.7 ) .
32 Speaking immediately after his election , John Young said : ‘ I am honoured and delighted to be elected Deputy Vice President and I see it as an opportunity to contribute to some of the serious issues facing the profession , and to represent a body with which I have been involved for much of my life .
33 I have been involved for many years with the channel tunnel project as a whole and its associated terminal at King 's Cross .
34 Dogs , in particular , have been trained for this work — an extension of their natural instincts to protect the pack .
35 ‘ You have been selected for this commission because of your exceptional technical skills , and your great artistic ability .
36 I have been looking for that ever since I first became involved in politics .
37 Since then , hypothalamic releasing factors have been discovered for all the major pituitary hormones ( thyroid stimulating hormone , luteinising hormone and adrenocorticotropin , for example ) except growth hormone .
38 The previous half-year figures have been adjusted for this change in presentation .
39 Various methods of analysis have been developed for such data .
40 Screen metaphors have been developed for each of these areas to make location in the system a graphical attribute .
41 Scotvec Modules have been developed for those pupils who have a pass at General level and not wish to do Higher .
42 The ideas that have been developed for this region can be applied to most turbulent flows adjacent to a wall : for example , to turbulent channel and pipe flow ( although not , for example , to a boundary layer close to separation ) .
43 Also , we have been calling for many years for legislation to get rid of the offshore tax havens of the sort that Lord Duncan-Sandys ploughed money into from Lonrho about 1970 .
44 Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms .
45 We have taken all reasonable and proper steps to ensure that proper arrangements have been made for all the holidays which are advertised in this brochure and for excursions as described above and that the suppliers of the various services which will be provided to you as part of the inclusive holiday are efficient , safe and reputable businesses , and that they comply with the local and national laws and regulations of the country in which they provide those services .
46 Careful plans have been made for these people so that when the hospital eventually closes they will not find themselves on the streets .
47 Red and green say on the bench and bench covers called bankers have been made for these as well they would be covered as well .
48 Efforts have been made for some time to get this off the ground and a successful public meeting was held at Newtown at the end of April .
49 This has proved so popular that arrangements have been made for this to be included in the admission price to the Centre .
50 Coleraine secretary Freddie Monahan stressed however : ‘ No official 5 approaches have been made for either player though we are aware they are being watched . ’
51 Dogs have been kept for many different purposes since they were first domesticated from wolves about 12,000 years ago .
52 The technique requires queue managers at either end and IBM says that it has these have been written for all of its operating systems , plus Digital Equipment Corp VAX/VMS , Stratus Computer Inc 's badged System/88 machines , and Tandem Computers Inc 's Guardian operating system .
53 Essentially , there are four types of control which have been exercised for some period : first , the " White Paper " controls on pricing , investment and financial targets ; secondly , external financing limits ( EFLs ) imposed by the Treasury ; thirdly , efficiency audits by the Monopolies and Mergers Corn-mission ( MMC ) ; and fourthly , direct controls on management itself .
54 David Linley , 31 , and 22-year-old Serena , who is the grand-daughter of wealthy Lord Harrington , have been dating for more than a year .
55 There is some evidence that cervical cancer is more common in women who smoke cigarettes , especially heavy smokers or women who have been smoking for several years .
56 Certain immigrant communities have been documented for many years as having higher mental hospital admission rates .
57 In a secular society these practices have been weakened for many , leaving us bewildered about how to handle our grief .
58 If the package has changed and the DCs have been aborted for some reason , but you still wish to proceed with the change , raise new DCs , get agreement for the changes , activate the Dcs through your package , then resubmit the package for approval .
59 The sixteen paintings seem likely to remain with the Uffizi , where they have been stored for some time .
60 Interventions by schools to reduce smoking have been undertaken for many decades , although little attention has been given to assessing their effectiveness .
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