Example sentences of "[adj] have been [vb pp] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been recognised for some time , perhaps most articulately in France , as one of the attainments to be expected from a top-class academic teacher and researcher , with an outstanding ability in accurate communication with the men ( and women ) in the street : haute popularisation . |
| 2 | Er , but the interesting , the interesting thing is that they are prepared to pay and yet this obsession this obsession with this ideology that the only way you can get you can go forward in in terms of er placing this this country in any economic status in the way it may have been and er is is to privatisation of V A T. Chairman I look forward to the day when when the very air and this has been said for that we breathe will either be privatised or more important they 'll stick a bloody V A T on it . |
| 3 | While early agreement in principle on the agency is likely , the actual launching of the agency may run into the same difficulties that have beset the European Environment Agency — this has been stalled for more than a year in an acrimonious ‘ who-gets-what ’ dispute over the sharing-out of the prestige , finance and jobs that flow from ‘ hosting ’ EC institutions . |
| 4 | There should have been a large timber column but this had been removed for some reason many years ago and led to the roof sagging some 4 ’ . |
| 5 | The technique requires queue managers at either end and IBM says that it has these have been written for all of its operating systems , plus Digital Equipment Corp VAX/VMS , Stratus Computer Inc 's badged System/88 machines , and Tandem Computers Inc 's Guardian operating system . |
| 6 | The ancient Chinese believed that the electrical energy of the body flowed in specific channels known as the acupuncture meridians , and charts illustrating these have been known for several thousands of years . |
| 7 | The Welsh international has been sidelined for much of the past two seasons . |
| 8 | The SIB 's new Conduct of Business Core Rule 28 has been adopted for this purpose . |
| 9 | A value of £3 million has been used for that purpose . |
| 10 | Five of those released on Christmas Eve 1772 had been gaoled for each owing 12s 8d , and were given half a crown ( 2s 6d ) on discharge . |
| 11 | Mr Jones , 55 , said : ‘ I am very surprised to have been selected for this award , but extremely pleased . ’ |
| 12 | The third had been expected for some time . |
| 13 | The decrease in spot density with age observed in patients with constipation is not therefore an age related factor , but is most probably related to the duration of the symptoms as most had been constipated for many years . |