Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latterly , until its closure in 1963 , it was used by the permanent-way department , and has since been sold for industrial purposes . |
| 2 | As Westminster aide to the party leader , Mr Durkan has long been tipped for higher offices . |
| 3 | Its proper specification has only been given for some simple cases . |
| 4 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |
| 5 | A superb SWAN which has only been used for private cruising in the Med . |
| 6 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 7 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 8 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 9 | The department ‘ s syllabus has not been revised for five years and perhaps is ready for a revision . |
| 10 | The 70-year-old has not been seen for four weeks since leaving the Robert Huggins home for the elderly in Acklam . |
| 11 | Although it has not been seen for some time , the manuscript may contain a specimen of Mary Leapor 's handwriting . |
| 12 | The wide-field/planetary camera has produced its share of dramatic pictures , including detailed ones of a storm on Saturn the like of which has not been seen for 60 years . |
| 13 | I think to do that erm to chairman , to define the Greater York area then to ten miles that would of course require a consistent calculation of the housing need requirement both the local need element and the hundred percent migration element which arises within that ten mile er area , to be consistent with erm the rest of the policy , and of course that calculation erm that consistent calculation er has not been done for that area . |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal decided to undertake a review of the basic principles of the law in this area and as this has not been done for some time we now set out in detail what they held . |
| 15 | It claims the annual American-South Korean military exercises , known as Team Spirit , are a threat to the North ; that the Americans still have nuclear weapons in South Korea ; and that the South has not been inspected for nuclear bases . |
| 16 | Permission has not been granted for large extensions . |
| 17 | It has not been released for independent investigation or for investigation by BR experts , so it is not part of the evidence that is being considered at the BR internal inquiry now under way . |
| 18 | The UN knows that much of the Cambodian army has not been paid for some time , so , until a new government takes over , it is considering paying the troops itself . |
| 19 | The door is locked and the windows are covered with grime ; in the silence the whole place looks as if it has not been occupied for several weeks . |
| 20 | The money has not been used for that purpose . |
| 21 | Therefore my own chapel which has not been used for two generations but for a lumber room , because our family seldom resided here long together , shall be cleared and cleaned and got ready for the ceremony . |
| 22 | She explains patiently , again , that Rude Pravo has not been published for fifteen years . |
| 23 | A novelist I know has devoted the last 20 years to writing stuff that is completely impossible to film , with the result that he has not been published for some time . |
| 24 | TYPE , PFND The Module type has not been specified for this module or is not S , F or M. Please specify a valid module type , S for a SOURCE module , F for a FOREIGN module , or M for a PMODEL module . |
| 25 | One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier . |
| 26 | ACCORDING to the Daily Mail , a doctor in Florida has just been busted for charging people £12 a time for a new dieting aid . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Once operational , the existing scouring machine presently located in the dye house will be moved along-side its new partner , where foundation work has already been completed for this major operation . |
| 29 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 30 | Competitive tendering ( see also Chapter 3 , page 47 ) has already been introduced for many ancillary services ( eg cleaning , catering ) and has reduced costs , although some health authorities have found that quality of service has also suffered . |