Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 2 | There is one particular practice that has been singled out for special treatment and that is resale price maintenance . |
| 3 | Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible . |
| 4 | HARTLEPOOL United defender Keith Nobbs has been ruled out for four weeks . |
| 5 | The £750,000 Payton has been ruled out for two weeks with a torn hamstring sustained in the FA Cup replay defeat by Portsmouth . |
| 6 | His Disco Roadshow business , called Darlington Number One , has been hired out for several parties and functions in the Darlington area . |
| 7 | She 's only done half the course and already she has been picked out for this job . |
| 8 | A helpline has been set up for anxious parents . |
| 9 | A telephone hotline , manned twenty four hours a day , has been set up for former pupils of a school where the head has been suspended and a governor arrested by police . |
| 10 | Q. My tank has been set up for five months now , and I do not seem to be able to achieve a good green algae growth . |
| 11 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
| 12 | A common problem in geographical information systems ( GIS ) , and one which has been known about for many years in the context of choropleth mapping , is that of producing maps from population data aggregated over selected arbitrary areal units . |
| 13 | This policy has been carried out for some time by the OECD countries , Todorovic claimed , except that there the figure is between 4 and 6 per cent . |
| 14 | At Builth in Central Wales , a complicated history has been worked out for one part of the Ordovician . |
| 15 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 16 | Wallace looked menacing and was through at one point when Burrows hacked him down ( the scouser should have been sent off for that and a clear ‘ professional foul ’ in the second half against Deane ) . |
| 17 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 18 | ‘ I was very surprised to have been singled out for this honour . |
| 19 | The bed was made , but did n't seem to have been slept in for some time , although there was a folded pair of pyjamas under the pillow . |
| 20 | Because both test and control groups had been singled out for special attention a group pride had developed and this became the motivation for improved performance . |
| 21 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 22 | Not once , but six separate times … and now he had been warned off for good . |
| 23 | Looks as though it had been cut out for some reason . |
| 24 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 25 | The double bed had been made up for two and there were two pyjama cases — relics of a past time — one embroidered with the letter ‘ I ’ , the other with an ‘ A ’ . |
| 26 | One manager felt the changes had been rushed through for political reasons , had overwhelmed staff and brought ‘ no major instant successes ’ . |
| 27 | But meanwhile , the hospital workers had been dug in for another kind of long war which ca n't be won the miners ' way . |
| 28 | Armenia is begging Russia to recommission two old reactors that had been shut down for good in 1988 under popular pressure . |
| 29 | Both the NRC and the SPG and its equivalents had been known about for some time . |
| 30 | Suzanne Gratton , 22 , of Warwick Close , Birkenhead , was accused after it was noticed that the licence on her car had been taken out for another vehicle . |