Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one has been executed for three years , human rights groups said . |
| 2 | Get a bit of sympathy cos I 've been asked for eight by you . |
| 3 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been hired for some zany roles in this metropolis , and a few of them leaned towards the crooked . |
| 5 | Speaking immediately after his election , John Young said : ‘ I am honoured and delighted to be elected Deputy Vice President and I see it as an opportunity to contribute to some of the serious issues facing the profession , and to represent a body with which I have been involved for much of my life . |
| 6 | I have been involved for many years with the channel tunnel project as a whole and its associated terminal at King 's Cross . |
| 7 | my vocation — the work , ministry , roles I am called to and the gifts I have been given for these . |
| 8 | Next is Upton Mill , which has been converted for residential use . |
| 9 | Charlemagne , a little book which has been written for 12 to 16 year olds ( but suitable for all ages ) would make an ideal present . |
| 10 | Wirral Council 's planning committee will tonight discuss the future of the 25-acre Bromb-orough Power Station site which has been earmarked for industrial use . |
| 11 | We are trying to populate a land which has been derelict for two thousand years with a people which has been scattered for two thousand years . |
| 12 | The El Niño climate phenomenon , which has been blamed for widespread droughts in southern Africa , Australia and south-east Asia [ see EDs 57 , 55 ] appears to be over . |
| 13 | Leith 's catering company has been hired to look after the Press at the stadium , which has been booked for three weeks . |
| 14 | In all they 've questioned twelve present and former members of staff from the school , which has been closed for four months . |
| 15 | There is a carers group , DACMI , which has been established for two years now , close to where you live . |
| 16 | But for this House to depart from a rule relating to land law which has been established for many centuries might upset long established titles . |
| 17 | The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research . |
| 18 | There was the introduction of the Welfare State , easing the problems of the old , the sick and the unemployed , but imposing patterns on rural communities which had been devised for urban conditions . |
| 19 | For up-market small-party charter hire , InterCity also procured the former London Midland Region general manager 's saloon No 6320 — something of a hybrid , comprising a special body on a Mk 1 underframe and B4 bogies , which had been converted for dual braking and electric train heating . |
| 20 | The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions . |
| 21 | Relations with China , which had been strained for many years since the 1962 war between the two countries , gradually improved after Rajiv Gandhi 's visit to Beijing on Dec. 19-23 , 1988 , the first to China by an Indian Prime Minister for 34 years . |
| 22 | As he will be aware , in June the United States Government had a sum of , I think , $21 million which had been earmarked for military aid set aside for the very purposes that the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
| 23 | Survival , l(x) , and fertility , m(x) , in the two sexes , as a function of time since eclosion , for lines of Drosophila melanogaster which had been selected for early or late reproduction . |
| 24 | The earliest Quaker meeting-houses , such as Jordans in Buckinghamshire , Colthouse in Lancashire , Skipton in Yorkshire , and Marazion in Cornwall , were built in the vernacular style of the late seventeenth century and closely resembled the farm buildings which had been used for Quaker services prior to 1688 . |
| 25 | James chatting with the Earl of Farrow outside Farrow Hall , which had been used for many of the exterior shots in Pemberley . |
| 26 | The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit . |
| 27 | The top coin shows Henry VII ( 1485-1509 ) ; it is the same generic royal image which had been used for two centuries , as can be seen from the close similarity of the image used by Edward I ( compare fig. 3 ) . |
| 28 | Their targets were ostensibly bases of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) guerrilla movement which had been used for cross-border attacks . |
| 29 | It was widely reported that armed police had besieged the state-owned Jerada colliery , which had been occupied for 10 days in late December 1988-early January 1989 by 400 miners . |
| 30 | Although by 1939 a total of 104 new trams had been delivered since 1933 , there was still a requirement for some new cars to replace the old open-sided Fleetwood cars which had been retained for seasonal use . |