Example sentences of "been [verb] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Essentially , we deal with the recent historical context ( development ) , the common configuration of the systems ( components ) , the software that has been developed for specific uses ( tools ) and the outcome of using these tools ( applications and implications ) . |
| 32 | Special cages have been developed for wild mice to reduce the need for handling during cleaning but it is possible to keep them in standard mouse cages . |
| 33 | Scotvec Modules have been developed for those pupils who have a pass at General level and not wish to do Higher . |
| 34 | However , there is a possibility that State aids , which have been given for domestic reasons , may reduce competitive pressure between nations , since such assistance may give a competitive advantage to industry within a particular country vis-à-vis its trading partners . |
| 35 | A preliminary account of events up to the mid-1970s has already been given for both locales , which will stand as an account for Cramlington but some elaboration is necessary for North Shields . |
| 36 | Interferon has been given for 24 weeks or longer in a few , mainly Mediterranean , studies ( response rates 26% to 70% ) . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | However , Ryzhkov on July 12 told the congress that production had been halted for 24 hours at 230 of the country 's 655 coalmines , with shorter stoppages occurring at many others . |
| 39 | On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it . |
| 40 | Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour . |
| 41 | Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour . |
| 42 | After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries . |
| 43 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 44 | His hair , untended , curled thick as a dog 's at his neck under a shapeless wool cap , and his mind was turned patently inwards ; far from seeking , or even thinking of the men from whom he had been parted for six weeks . |
| 45 | The London General Omnibus Company had been experimenting for some years and , in 1910 introduced to the streets of London , their ‘ B ’ type , petrol engined , double-decker , opened top buses . |
| 46 | Mr Vasarhelyi , who has been drawing for 30 years , has also just finished a collection of World Wide Fund for Nature stamps for export to Italy and Iceland . |
| 47 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 48 | Well over 100 applications had been received for 35 places on a new course starting this year . |
| 49 | The department ‘ s syllabus has not been revised for five years and perhaps is ready for a revision . |
| 50 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 51 | There has been exposed for all eyes to see the lack of military ability of ‘ the most brilliant strategist of all time ’ , that is , our megalomaniac corporal . |
| 52 | But the conditions in Greek state psychiatric hospitals have been exposed for many years . |
| 53 | Restlessly , she returned to the office , then recalled that the answering machine had not been checked for several hours . |
| 54 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 55 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 56 | Much will depend on how it seeks to solve the long-running debate about merging income tax and the national insurance system ; whether benefits , including pensions , are to be universal or selective ; and , if selective , how the state is to deal with obligations to people who have been contributing for many years to what they were told was national insurance . |
| 57 | Though the system has now been modified for some years , local authorities still play a crucial role in the shaping of the local environment by , for example , forecasting the need for roads for travel to work or leisure , and thus plan on the basis of that need Planners seek to influence behaviour , for example , by deciding that particular zones will be devoted to industrial estates , others to shopping centres and residential use in order to harmonise traffic movement and so on . |
| 58 | The Theogonist 's leadership value is not therefore used , but has been included for comparative purposes . |
| 59 | In the end , Clara , exasperated beyond endurance , brought up once more the possibility of cremation ( not daring to mention , even in her own mind , which had not quite forsaken filial tenderness , the possibility of the once-praised dust cart ) and Mrs Maugham , square , immutable , said quite astonishingly for her , and invoking sanctions she had been deriding for thirty years , that ashes must go to ashes and dust to dust . |
| 60 | Where the right has been enjoyed for 40 years , it is to be considered ’ absolute and indefeasible ’ . |