Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [vb pp] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A huge area has since been cleared for the construction of flyovers , underpasses , multi-lane carriageways and slip roads , with forlorn office blocks and high rise flats standing around them , either waiting to be demolished or recently erected . |
| 2 | She had only been daunted for a moment , however . |
| 3 | It had apparently been arranged for the drugs to be delivered to a warehouse in Bristol . |
| 4 | True to the philosophy behind the series , the new titles have all been chosen for the quality of the writing and because they provide the satisfaction of a ‘ good read ’ . |
| 5 | Nicolo shifted unhappily in the little gilt chair that had certainly not been made for a man 's body . |
| 6 | if requests to store/restore files have not been serviced for a period |
| 7 | if requests to store/restore files have not been serviced for a period |
| 8 | The official turnout was 74 per cent , although there were claims that many voters had not been registered for the ballot . |
| 9 | The cottage had not been inhabited for a while . |
| 10 | I had not been prepared for a walk across a wasteland under a hot white sun . |
| 11 | But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response . |
| 12 | But all the same , Sara had not been prepared for the girls ' curiosity about Matthew . |
| 13 | There is no point in simply applying lower speed limits on residential roads if the drivers have not been prepared for the fact that they must slow down . |
| 14 | Nathan had not been prepared for the bus trip into and out of the town and the long walk through the snow to a campsite either . |
| 15 | I had not been prepared for the volume of decisions I had to make . |
| 16 | In a letter to the London gallery , The Edge , a DTI official stated that details of the case had been passed to Customs and Excise for them to consider whether an offence had occurred as a licence had not been granted for the photographs in the current exhibition . |
| 17 | At some point during my stay in Wolverton there arose a rumour that the church of St James in the neighbouring railway-workers ' village of New Bradwell had not been consecrated for the performance of weddings . |
| 18 | Meadowbank , which has not been used for a concert since 1989 , will host the return of the Prince of Pop and his band , the New Power Generation , who last year sold out Glasgow 's Celtic Park . |
| 19 | We will probably have to prove that we have not been paid for the consignment . |
| 20 | As far as he knows Women in Love has not been adapted for the stage before , but already it is causing much interest from other theatres and companies . |
| 21 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 22 | Lawrence was elected British president , and discharged his difficult task with a calmness , courtesy , and firmness which won universal approval , even from the defendants , the soldiers among whom thought that their problems were appreciated by one who had gained the DSO as a gunner officer in World War I. Praise was also given by the British alternate judge , Sir Norman ( later first Baron ) Birkett [ q.v. ] , who was secretly resentful that he had not been chosen for the post . |
| 23 | A coherent strategy for retrospective conversion has not been attempted for the UK ( although it is known that there are stirrings of such an initiative in a European context , involving the British Library ) and lack of institutional funding for such unglamorous activities has ensured at best a piecemeal approach . |
| 24 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 25 | A home has finally been found for the horse John Major was given as a birthday present eight months ago . |
| 26 | The long term view that is required for mineral exploitation means that planning permissions have generally been given for a working with a long life commonly not less than fifteen years , and , on occasion , up to sixty years . |
| 27 | Thus , when Ludendorff arrived at his new headquarters at Marienburg , orders had already been given for the mass of the Eighth Army to form a half-moon facing southeast , toward the centre of which' Samsonov , urged on by telegrams from Jilinski , was now marching his weary men . |
| 28 | Contracts had already been given for the erection of grandstands and a tented village . |
| 29 | ‘ Tolstikov was an unknown as far as last year 's race was concerned , yet he went off and won it , ’ said Brace , who has already been selected for the Barcelona Olympics . |
| 30 | It is also possible that seasonal meeting places had already been determined for the exchange of goods and people as well as social intercourse . |