Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] have be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ell had once seen a vidfilm where that had been used for an escape bid . |
| 2 | There is evidence for forest clearing 11000 years BP in Taiwan and of agriculture between 14000 and 8000 BP in Thailand , and New Guinea by 9000 BP , though tools much older than this have been claimed for the island ; rice was being grown in Sulawesi by 6000 BP . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , in case I seem to be just er avoiding the question , er I would have to say that this has been asked for before and we have resisted time and again , that 's the history of the matter , on the grounds that what these parents are really asking for is baptism and it 's our opportunity to er , to speak in these terms er and it 's a gold golden opportunity if they actually come to us . |
| 4 | Corpus availability is currently limited due to legal constraints although some have been cleared for academic research . |
| 5 | Cos that 's been shut for ages in n it ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thus , while most winters produce short cold snaps which have been accepted as part of the normal pattern , the effects of the quite exceptionally severe winters of early 1947 , 1956 , and 1963 have been allowed for when making comparisons . |
| 8 | Questions 1 and 4 have been done for you . |
| 9 | A Nottingham car salesman who went with two prostitutes aged fourteen and fifteen has been jailed for three years . |
| 10 | A Nottingham car salesman who went with two prostitutes aged fourteen and fifteen has been jailed for three years . |
| 11 | Some 90,000 have been dismissed from their jobs for political reasons and thousands have been imprisoned for long sentences . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | But all had been prepared for them . |
| 14 | A few have become derelict as smaller farms have been taken over by the larger conglomerates but many have been restored for non-farming families : that is , those which have not got past the point of no return after being left open to the four winds for too many years ; fit only for pigeon habitation . |
| 15 | Yet , even when this has been allowed for , the balance of forces between the continuing general oral culture and the selective technically transmitted culture has been in at least some respects altered , and with it the nature of the asymmetry between the institutions of cultural production and the broader institutions of general social and cultural reproduction . |
| 16 | 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 . |