Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A superb SWAN which has only been used for private cruising in the Med . |
| 2 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 3 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |
| 4 | The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage . |
| 5 | Although it has not been seen for some time , the manuscript may contain a specimen of Mary Leapor 's handwriting . |
| 6 | I think to do that erm to chairman , to define the Greater York area then to ten miles that would of course require a consistent calculation of the housing need requirement both the local need element and the hundred percent migration element which arises within that ten mile er area , to be consistent with erm the rest of the policy , and of course that calculation erm that consistent calculation er has not been done for that area . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeal decided to undertake a review of the basic principles of the law in this area and as this has not been done for some time we now set out in detail what they held . |
| 8 | Altogether she followed up 345 white American children who had been referred to the child guidance clinic for anti-social behaviour , 130 other referrals and 100 individuals who had attended neighbouring elementary schools who had not been referred for any specialist help , and who therefore provided a comparison group . |
| 9 | In answer to the second part of my hon. Friend 's question about population planning assistance to the former Soviet Union , although we have not been asked for such help , last week I agreed that £2 million-worth of medical aid should be spent in the republics of the former Soviet Union . |
| 10 | TYPE , PFND The Module type has not been specified for this module or is not S , F or M. Please specify a valid module type , S for a SOURCE module , F for a FOREIGN module , or M for a PMODEL module . |
| 11 | It has not been released for independent investigation or for investigation by BR experts , so it is not part of the evidence that is being considered at the BR internal inquiry now under way . |
| 12 | It was owned by the Baron de Rochefort and his family , and visitors had not been encouraged for some time , as the Baron did not enjoy the best of health . |
| 13 | The money has not been used for that purpose . |
| 14 | Microprocessors have not been used for this work up to now and the first-ever system for a PWR is currently being installed by the French at their new power station at Paluel . |
| 15 | Do n't be discouraged by this , as it is a good sign that you have stretched muscles that have not been used for some time . |
| 16 | The UN knows that much of the Cambodian army has not been paid for some time , so , until a new government takes over , it is considering paying the troops itself . |
| 17 | The Pensions Act which became law in August 1908 granted a pension of between 1s. and 5s. per week to those over the age of seventy with incomes of between £21 and £31 10s. p.a. , provided that they had not been imprisoned for any offence , including drunkenness , during the ten years preceding their claim , were not aliens or wives of aliens , and could satisfy the pension authority that they had not been guilty of ‘ habitual failure to work according to his ability , opportunity or need , for his own maintenance and that of his legal relatives ’ . |
| 18 | Although fitted with an alarm courtesy of the Venice in Peril Fund , this had not been working for some time . |
| 19 | One thing about him that was widely known was the fact that he was a businessman , and so it was as such that he was welcomed ; the party could even claim some credit for being the first to elect a businessman as its leader — much as it claimed credit in 1975 for electing a woman , although Margaret Thatcher had certainly not been chosen for that reason . |
| 20 | A novelist I know has devoted the last 20 years to writing stuff that is completely impossible to film , with the result that he has not been published for some time . |
| 21 | The memory of the heroism and sterling qualities of Rodrigo del Bivar have thus been enshrined for all time ; his statue stands today in the main square of Burgos , staring out forever across the lands he fought so long to transform . |
| 22 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 23 | The polytechnic which has already been commissioned for significant consultancy work into the performance of roofs , will conduct the statistical analysis assessing life-span criteria across a full spectrum of roof systems . |
| 24 | When a module name is first entered into LIFESPAN , it is checked to ensure that the same name has not already been chosen for another module . |
| 25 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 26 | Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar . |
| 27 | We 've just been overcharged for this sandwich . |
| 28 | they , they 've always been known for marvellous skin have n't they , the erm |
| 29 | Mexicans have always been known for heavy drinking because traditional forms of alcohol are cheap , peasants often making their own , and this is a classic way of forgetting the drudgery of poverty . |
| 30 | What she longed to ask him was : ‘ Have I ever been missing for any time , Steve ? |