Example sentences of "been [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 32 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 33 | Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 34 | CPRW has evidence that the sale of holiday units as permanent residences is already beginning to happen where the temporary occupancy clause , which is customarily enforced on caravan and chalet sites , has been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 35 | Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones . |
| 36 | Sheriff Carl Peed of Virginia in America , said the un-named officer was the first woman to be been sacked for sexual harassment . |
| 37 | A second Gloucestershire social worker has been sacked for smoking cannabis while in charge of a group of youngsters on holiday in Devon . |
| 38 | Mrs Jonker , of Southport , said Miss Owen had been sacked for gross misconduct after written and verbal warnings . |
| 39 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 40 | Interventions by schools to reduce smoking have been undertaken for many decades , although little attention has been given to assessing their effectiveness . |
| 41 | Up-to-date valuations of such properties had not been undertaken for many years previously , partly because of business people 's complaints that any revaluations of commercial properties could inevitably lead to an increase in their total tax bill . |
| 42 | It is also guaranteeing mortgages at 1 per cent below the normal interest rate , for endowment or pension-linked policies , on several of the houses up for sale , an interesting and innovative service for would-be bidders ( mortgage surveys will already have been undertaken for these houses ) . |
| 43 | From the clinical database of 75 trials held by Glaxo , who manufacture sumatriptan , 375 asthmatics have been identified who had been treated for 1214 migraine episodes . |
| 44 | Checking through her notes , the doctor saw that she had been treated for vaginal thrush on several occasions . |
| 45 | He had been treated for nine months in one hospital and two months in another , and had returned home with recurrent dislocation of one knee and an un-united fracture of the other thigh . |
| 46 | He had never been treated for mental illness , and Delroy was still alive in Jamaica . |
| 47 | The pond has once been treated for White Spot , which occurred on six newly-purchased fish , but no other chemicals have been necessary . |
| 48 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 49 | • In rodents , rhythms continue to develop in animals that have been reared for several generations in constant conditions . |
| 50 | Volunteers such as the receptionist form the backbone of the hospice and volunteer sitters have been helping for five years . |
| 51 | Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness . |
| 52 | The previous half-year figures have been adjusted for this change in presentation . |
| 53 | I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school . |
| 54 | In addition , one very broadly-based general SVQ is being introduced at level I. We are also introducing two preliminary awards at a more basic level than level I. All these awards have been accredited for two years in the first instance . |
| 55 | It has been raining for three days — Oh ! how lovely the caravans were those evenings in Touggourt , when the sun was sinking into the salt . |
| 56 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 57 | He complained that his design had been criticized for deficient lighting but he had shown the Committee that his windows were larger than those in sixteen or seventeen well-known classical buildings in London . |
| 58 | It enabled Bush , who had been criticized for excessive prioritization of foreign policy , to demonstrate concern for and involvement in domestic affairs , and to demonstrate a commitment to civil rights at a time when Duke 's gubernatorial candidacy in Louisiana [ see above ] had embarrassed the Republican party . |
| 59 | The accident records at these schools have been examined in considerable detail by the Departments of Highways and Education and the Police and four areas have been highlighted for further action and detailed investigation . |
| 60 | It has been validated for early diagnosis of tuberculosis . |