Example sentences of "has [be] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 31 | They face another five years in opposition and Labour will have another inquest into why it has been rejected for a fourth time . |
| 32 | Implementation ‘ has been precluded for a number of years by the absence of realistic resources to undertake the task ( in terms of funding and/or staff ) . |
| 33 | Certainly it has been argued for a discrete stimulus trained as an occasion setter that subsequently presenting it alone will not produce a loss of occasion-setting power ( e.g. Rescorla 1986 ) ( but see also Ross 1983 ; Holland and Gory 1986 ) . |
| 34 | The US has been trying for a decade to clinch the deal , not least because it would give its nuclear forces control of what is seen as the strategically vital Pacific zone and a new set of options if its Philippine naval and air bases are threatened . |
| 35 | Mr Deukmejian , who was elected governor in 1982 , has been trying for a mighty long time to get the death penalty enforced in California . |
| 36 | Now the way has been cleared for a wider approach , through the use of software recommended as a common Group standard . |
| 37 | Today the unqualified term has been appropriated for a form of democracy which is , at best , indirect . |
| 38 | This very high degree of risk has been maintained for a long time as many studies over the past thirty years have shown . |
| 39 | has been re-appointed for a further year as part-time member of AEA Board . |
| 40 | CINEMA outside Hollywood used to come in national waves , but no longer : China has been silenced for a while , and the work emerging out of Africa has been distributed too sporadically to seem like a movement . |
| 41 | The route has been planned for a 25 mile ride through the East Hampshire countryside starting and finishing at the Bohunt Centre , with plenty of refreshment stops on the way . |
| 42 | The ban on commercial whaling has been upheld for a further year — prompting threats from Iceland and Norway to leave the International Whaling Commission . |
| 43 | As an example of discourse analysis data , it has been selected for a particular purpose . |
| 44 | A congested city has been selected for a detailed three month inquiry into its traffic problems . |
| 45 | CHARLES Keating , a prominent figure in the $500 billion savings and loan scandal in the United States , has been jailed for a total of 10 years for deceiving depositors into buying junk bonds that became worthless . |
| 46 | A Glasgow man who blackmailed gay businessmen by threatening to expose their homosexuality , has been jailed for a total of four and half years at the city 's sheriff court . |
| 47 | A teacher who allowed schoolchildren to have under age sex and drug sessions at his home has been jailed for a year . |
| 48 | A prisoner who threw boiling water over a fellow inmate has been jailed for a further three and a half years . |
| 49 | This has been recognized for a long time . |
| 50 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 51 | Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan . |
| 52 | A LIFEBOAT crew has been honoured for a daring rescue on the Cleveland coast . |
| 53 | A CD is a negotiable bearer instrument issued by a bank which certifies that a stated sum has been deposited for a specific time period at a particular interest rate . |
| 54 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 55 | Morgan has been looking for a white knight for the last two weeks since insurance broker Willis Faber announced it was selling its 20 per cent stake in the merchant bank to Banque Indosuez , part of Compagnie Financiere de Suez . |
| 56 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
| 57 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
| 58 | A COURT date has been fixed for a North-East mum claiming £200,000 damages because she had two babies after being sterilised . |
| 59 | ‘ The plant has been neglected for a few years so I thought I 'd give it some plant food and water and to my astonishment this was the result , ’ said Margaret . |
| 60 | It has been operating for a year now , with the aim of showing researchers both the benefits of massively parallel computers and how to use them . |