Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] been [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A BOAT skipper who took £100,000 in bookings for a ferry service which did not exist has been jailed for 15 months . |
2 | They frequently appear to have been written for some private academic argument rather than to inform prospective students . |
3 | The structure and organization of public services do not , at present , foster service developments which match the King 's Fund recommendations , and the need for an overhaul in the way services are organized has been recognized for some years . |
4 | Experimental tests of the Hashin-Shtrikman and Hill-Walpole bounds , which lie , of course , within the Voigt and Reuss bounds do not appear to have been made for single polymer systems but , as discussed later in this chapter , they have been applied to a styrene-butadiene-styrene system and to a composite of glass beads and epoxy resin ( Arridge & Crowson 1979 ) . |
5 | Unfortunately the only categories included in the criteria for grants which might be exploited by the arts do not appear to have been designed for this purpose . |
6 | Amnesty International is also concerned that in other instances , during the operation some unarmed civilians were reportedly killed deliberately by Soviet and Azerbaydzhani law enforcement officials without warning or attempts to apprehend them , and that some people are said to have been detained for short periods solely on grounds of their ethnic origin . |
7 | This view will be related to the determinate sentence that would have been passed but for the element of mental instability and/or public risk which led the judge to pass a life sentence and will also take account of the notional period of the sentence which a prisoner might expect to have been remitted for good behaviour had a determinate sentence been passed . |
8 | At intervals round each temple there were adyta , sunken and secluded rectangular areas which are thought to have been used for important ceremonies ( Marinatos 1984 ) . |
9 | All foreign branches seem to have been closed for financial reasons in 1891–1892 , but Wilson , after the refloating of the union in 1894 , persisted in his international endeavours , establishing new branches in Hamburg , Rotterdam and Antwerp in the following year and an agency in New York , and accepting the logic of the shipowners ' often repeated argument that British claims to higher pay would be more convincing if foreign rates were brought up to British levels . |
10 | No after action reports seem to have been filed for any of these early raids , which is not surprising considering the impromptu nature of their planning and execution . |
11 | I am left with no alternative but to seek legal advice on this matter which I believe has been taken for one reason and one reason only — that is to discourage the importation of fish to secure employment in the Grampian area . ’ |
12 | It looked to have been wasted for good in 1990 when , after struggling to overcome injuries and failing exams , he packed up and returned home to Teesside . |
13 | Finally , that was in a general way an instrument of state policy , in this case one felt to have been used for ill , is indicated by one of the several criticisms made of Bayezid I 's Grand Vezir Candarli Ali Pasa in the early histories . |
14 | Further inquiries were now being made and the substance seized had been sent for scientific analysis . |
15 | That ache that she thought had been satiated for all time was back within her . |
16 | The kitchens appeared to have been designed for human use , judging from the height of the working surfaces and the sheer size of the ladles , pots and pans and other pieces of equipment . |
17 | Each of the patients examined had been referred for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy to investigate dyspeptic symptoms . |
18 | He was simply lucky , perhaps , that the land which he sold had been allocated for residential purposes in a period when a new suburban city was coming into being . |
19 | He claims to have been paddling for 26 years , not bad for a 32 year old . |