Example sentences of "[pron] have been [vb pp] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been hired for some zany roles in this metropolis , and a few of them leaned towards the crooked . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I have been involved for many years with the channel tunnel project as a whole and its associated terminal at King 's Cross . |
| 4 | my vocation — the work , ministry , roles I am called to and the gifts I have been given for these . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | James chatting with the Earl of Farrow outside Farrow Hall , which had been used for many of the exterior shots in Pemberley . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Over 40,000 people staged a demonstration in Buenos Aires on Dec. 30 against the decision , which had been forecast for some time . |
| 12 | Even the shirts which had been left for many weeks in my laundry out-tray responded to the punishment it dished out . |
| 13 | The situation rapidly became chaotic , and a 250-bedded hospital , which had been allotted for these cases , contained some 1000 patients , when in 1915 Harrison was urgently called upon to sort things out . |
| 14 | The king provoked hostility by seeking to use his prerogative rights to raise money , and by requiring the payment of debts , many of which had been respited for many years . |
| 15 | Several aspects of the reshuffle , which had been expected for several weeks , were attacked by opposition groups who demanded greater reductions . |
| 16 | The several price quotations which have been collected for each of the 350 items in the ‘ basket ’ must be averaged and then divided by the average price of that item in January 1985 . |
| 17 | Essentially , there are four types of control which have been exercised for some period : first , the " White Paper " controls on pricing , investment and financial targets ; secondly , external financing limits ( EFLs ) imposed by the Treasury ; thirdly , efficiency audits by the Monopolies and Mergers Corn-mission ( MMC ) ; and fourthly , direct controls on management itself . |
| 18 | A much fresher horse who has been trained for this all season is Brown Windsor , fourth two years ago . |
| 19 | And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements . |
| 20 | That 's correct , and that the further down , I mean it says that er there is a er it says that the reason you 've had been the reason you 've been sent for this treatment is because of er a particular condition you 've got . |
| 21 | We 've also included in there , on item twelve , a net bill item , but does need to be recognized as an addition to your total spending , and that is , you 've been involved for many years with the health authority in arranging for the discharge of people from long-stay hospitals , and their absorption into the community , and each of these are a provider of many services , and daycare services to those particular individuals . |
| 22 | She said we are not employed , we are , so I said oh , what 's the difference , you pay for that , you 've been paid for that , I said , because I promise you can , you can go . |
| 23 | The exception was Dawn Allenby , a woman in her thirties who had been engaged for this first production only and who , two days into rehearsal , had fallen heavily for Richard St Ives . |
| 24 | ‘ You have been selected for this commission because of your exceptional technical skills , and your great artistic ability . |
| 25 | And also , back in their team is erm Michael Lee who 's been banned for some years now , and he 's raring to go and erm I think they 're all coming down to prove a few points . |
| 26 | No I did n't Stefan , we 've been blamed for some things in our time , have n't we but |
| 27 | We had been affianced for some weeks . ’ |
| 28 | However , the know-how fund is doing extremely good work throughout the former Soviet republics , where we have been asked for that help , as it is in the rest of central and eastern Europe . |
| 29 | We have been told for several centuries now that every child is naturally different and it is therefore wrong to impose on one the mould which has been prepared for others unlike it . |
| 30 | There has been exposed for all eyes to see the lack of military ability of ‘ the most brilliant strategist of all time ’ , that is , our megalomaniac corporal . |