Example sentences of "[noun] has be [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A computer retailer has been operating for three years under the name of " COMPUTER EQUIPMENT SALES " and has a chain of stores in the South of England . |
| 2 | Because income support was introduced at a time when there would otherwise have been an increase in supplementary benefits , and because transitional protection has been provided for some groups of claimants who have been transferred to income support , the Government claims that relatively few people suffered an actual cut in benefit in April 1988 . |
| 3 | In terms of ideology it is exactly what the FMLN has been fighting for these past seven years . |
| 4 | Planning permission has been granted for two ground-floor shops and 16 flats in three adjoining buildings in Church Street , Hartlepool . |
| 5 | It also reminds Beijing that permission has been refused for local protesters to erect a replica Statue of Democracy on a permanent site . |
| 6 | Allan has been working for Historic Scotland since 1986 and has gained wide-ranging experience including masonry consolidation , hewing and building of all types of stonework at sites throughout Grampian Region and the Shetland Islands . |
| 7 | Special provision has been made for handicapped access , and in addition the museum now boasts an auditorium , and greater accessibility to the reserve collections . |
| 8 | Imaginative provision has been made for wheelchair-bound bird watchers at the Rutland Water Nature Reserve . |
| 9 | The majority of delegations have nevertheless said they are in favour of including such consequences within the scope of the law of contracts , but in order to take account of the opposition expressed provision has been made for any contracting state to enter a reservation on this matter : article 22(1) ( b ) . |
| 10 | Management considers that adequate provision has been made for any liability which may arise in respect of the years 1981 to 1983 . |
| 11 | No provision has been made for any taxation liability that would arise is these assets were disposed of at their revalued amount . |
| 12 | A MAN of 28 who bit of the tip of another man 's nose during a fight has been jailed for 18 months . |
| 13 | The chairman of the action group has already met with Malcolm Rifkind , Secretary of State for Scotland , pamphlets have been issued to all houses in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains , another public meeting will be called and a plea has been made for wholehearted support by writing letters of objection . |
| 14 | Bob Peckham has been juggling for 12 years he regularly entertains shoppers in Oxford city centre . |
| 15 | FORMER British light-heavywight champion Steve McCarthy has been suspended for three months , fined £1,000 and banned from fighting abroad by the British Board of Control after being disqualified in the third round of a bout with Darius Michalczeski in Hamburg in September . |
| 16 | Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme . |
| 17 | Brian Clough has been trying for several weeks to recapture the man he sees as a key player in his fight to lift Forest off the bottom of the Premier League . |
| 18 | Their response has been to aim for legislative repeal or reform . |
| 19 | Their main response has been to campaign for fairer representation of women among psychologists . |
| 20 | The unofficial sanctuary has been running for four years and is now looking after more than a hundred animals . |
| 21 | The route has been constructed for joint use by cyclists and pedestrians , although it will occasionally be used by motor vehicles for maintenance or emergency purposes . |
| 22 | The route has been constructed for joint use by cyclists and pedestrians , although it will occasionally be used by motor vehicles for maintenance or emergency purposes . |
| 23 | KEVIN WARD has been banned for both of St Helens ' two big holiday attractions . |
| 24 | A computerised index has been prepared for these and other donations of commercial and ‘ folk ’ recordings . |
| 25 | Since 1973 , in Columbus , Georgia , a death sentence has been sought for 43.8 per cent of those accused of killing a white female and only 2.6 per cent of those accused of killing a black female . |
| 26 | Edith Harlow has been teaching for 40 years and Teachers in this area felt the time was ripe for celebration . |
| 27 | ‘ When a golf course has been played for 15 years , as The Belfry had , it begins to show certain areas where improvements can be made by fine-tuning . |
| 28 | Our awards are renowned for their transportability across the many countries in which the Board has been recognised for more than a century . |
| 29 | Its presence has been seen for 2,000 years throughout the acrimonious purgings of innocent human life in the witchcraft genocides ; through the long systematic persecution then culmination in horrific holocausting of Jesus 's own people — the tribe of Judah . |
| 30 | Claire paddles away at buttons on telephone , scours desk for material to take to meeting ( 3.00 p.m. , the worst ) gets hung up fielding call from incandescent client wanting to know why contract has been mis-drafted for third time in succession … |