Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A 7 day tour to Poland , open to CIT members , spouses , and colleagues has been arranged for the first week of July , boasting a programme , both transport orientated and cultural .
2 The House of Lords has asked whether it is sex discrimination , contrary to Directive 76/207/EEC , to dismiss a female employee when she has been engaged for the specific purpose of replacing ( after training ) another female employee who is about to go on maternity leave and when the maternity leave replacement discovers very shortly after appointment that she too is pregnant and will need maternity leave and the employer dismisses her because he needs the job holder to be at work during that period .
3 Nevertheless , a blow has been struck for the land-owning taxpayer , particularly those less well-off individuals who have not been able to defend themselves against the local district valuer 's increasingly aggressive commercial techniques .
4 And what about Body Shop supremo Anita Roddick , the woman who has been feted for the last ten years as some kind of environmentally conscious feminist icon .
5 A new method has been developed for the current project which attempts to provide a much simplified morphological system with little increase in the storage requirements and remove the errors permitted by the affix-stripping methods .
6 Much of this work has been done for the larger national and international companies .
7 So far it has been implemented for the 68000 , 88000 , R-Series and Sparc processors .
8 HOUSE has been called for the last time at the Mecca bingo hall in Middlesbrough and its future is now uncertain .
9 20 pence for every card sold goes into the Molly Braithwaite Fund and with your help to date £70 has been raised for the above fund .
10 THE draw has been made for the Indoor Football Championship in Hong Kong , which runs from November 15 to 28 .
11 And even after due allowance has been made for the undeniable fact , easily forgotten as it is , that literature is written by writers , and that writers are likely to be highly exceptional beings who actively prefer working alone , there is still something persuasively representative about the man in the play who would rather listen to a new recording of a favourite opera than to the problems of his neighbours and relatives .
12 THE draw has been made for the first round of this year 's Harp Masters International Hockey tournament , run by Annadale Hockey club .
13 There has been a substantial advance in real-terms pay under our Administration , and this year the pay award that has been made for the current year is increasing the teachers ' pay bill overall by 11.3 per cent .
14 I understand that the move has been made for the best scientific reasons .
15 The Group has no present intention to dispose of the AUK Notes and therefore no tax provision has been made for the potential liability to corporation tax .
16 A SECOND ransom demand has been made for the kidnapped champion Irish donkey Toby .
17 However , we have not been persuaded that it would be right to extend the special provision which has been made for the infected haemophiliacs .
18 This once German land , which under Polish rule sank into misery and neglect , has been conquered for the German people by sword and plow .
19 The refuge has been supported for the past 18 years by the Swindon-based financial services group Allied Dunbar .
20 Up to £2 million has been budgeted for the special needs grant but the amount spent will depend on the take-up .
21 The couple will begin their married life in Cyprus , where Paul , whose home is in Liverpool , has been posted for the next 18 months .
22 The EC Commission 's own environment department may be allocated some of the $6.5 million which , to date , has been earmarked for the new agency .
23 Around £250,000 has been earmarked for the three year project by Kent County Council in conjunction with the Countryside Commission .
24 The legendary Plaza ballroom will find itself playing host to the London Pink Dancers at the opening tea dance , and the cavernous Tramway has been earmarked for the last night ceilidh .
25 Some flights are night flights — when you arrive in the resort your room is immediately available , as it has been reserved for the whole night .
26 A quantitative estimate of inversion using this newly defined velocity-depth trend has been constructed for the Sole Pit Basin area ( Fig. 10 ) and will be discussed below in comparison with estimates based on vitrinite reflectance .
27 For example , little sheltered housing has been constructed for the old and disabled .
28 This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting .
29 The lesson was learned , and in subsequent years a photocall has been organized for the first day , when the Prince and Princess pose sweetly for the cameras on the understanding that thereafter the media will go home so the two can holiday in peace .
30 Now , after quite a shore period , the locomotive has been steamed for the first time and is almost in working order .
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