Example sentences of "[conj] have been [vb pp] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is essentially because of the change in labour relations and the encouragement that has been given for employers and the work force to work together . |
| 2 | CPRW is one of a small handful of organisations in Wales that has been asked for views on what the report should say . |
| 3 | CPRW is one of a small handful of organisations in Wales that has been asked for views on what the report should say . |
| 4 | There is another function of playing dead that has been depicted for centuries but which , until recently , was thought to be no more than a fictitious folk-tale . |
| 5 | It is the same spray material that has been used for ages on potatoes and other crops , and can be a great help here also . |
| 6 | It was worn and comfortable-looking , like an old , well-loved piece of furniture that had been kept for years . |
| 7 | Although , as he points out , ‘ it really is n't new at all , just a return to traditions of healing that have been accepted for millenniums ’ . |
| 8 | In part this can be attributed to the diverse scopes that have been claimed for sociolinguistics ( see Trudgill , 1978 : Introduction ) , but in part it comes about because sociolinguists are interested in inter-relations between language and society however these are manifested in grammatical systems : sociolinguistics is not a component or level of a grammar in the way that syntax , semantics , phonology and , quite plausibly , pragmatics are . |
| 9 | Elstree is not able to take all the aviation business that 's been displaced for weeks that I know of and , and for Hatfield I 've been notified by two people who are at present at Hatfield , one of whom is going to move to Stansted . |
| 10 | The technique is best suited to hydrothermal systems older than 100 million years and has been proven for deposits as old as 1800 million years . |
| 11 | A number of issues are raised in the paper , but one of the companies which has been at the receiving end and has been canvassed for views , says : ‘ Part of the document looks as if it has been drafted by British Gas . ’ |
| 12 | Black lead , or wad as it is sometimes called , is found in a number of places in the Lake District and has been mined for centuries at Seathwaite in Borrowdale . |
| 13 | Clinic surveys in Scotland , America , and Germany have failed to confirm an association but have been criticised for flaws in study design . |
| 14 | Nucella does not appear to have fluid spaces between mantle and shell , as has been reported for limpets , but , in common with other littoral molluscs , a certain amount of seawater is trapped in the mantle cavity ( above the head ) ( Boyle , Sillar and Bryceson , 1979 ) . |
| 15 | To test the possibility that the axons normally display a glial mitogen on their surface ( as has been suggested for axons in the peripheral nervous system ( PNS ) ) , which is lost when the axons degenerate and are phagocytosed after transection , we studied the effect of transection on mitosis in postnatal optic nerves of C57B1/6 and C57B1/6-WLD mice . |