Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Standard BS 6652 for child resistance is granted to specific combinations of bottle and cap and has been given only for some makes of closures on BS 1679 bottles , which are the ones we use in this hospital . |
| 2 | She had assumed , when she was told that Mills ' murder had been checked thoroughly for any spying connections , that the enquiry had at least had the semblance of efficiency , if not diligence . |
| 3 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 4 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 5 | Since then , various voluntary groups throughout the campus , the UK and abroad have come forward with names and addresses of active alumni , some of whom have been networking enthusiastically for many years outwith the official organisation of either the Graduates Association of the University . |
| 6 | Where TVEI is designed to be only a part of a pupil 's curriculum in the 14–18 age range , the CPVE has , in contrast , been designed explicitly for that section of the pupil population for whom A-levels are inappropriate , but who wish to achieve some further , more vocationally relevant qualification at school . |
| 7 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 8 | Written application had been made in advance , and , except for four theses on loan , all had been collected together for this study either within the thesis area or in the thesis collection area of the Stack , to which access was permitted on this occasion . |
| 9 | I expect that the Minister can reassure him that an environmental impact assessment can not have been made properly for that incinerator yet , because an application does not yet appear to have been made . |
| 10 | For example , if you are looking for something for your in-foal mare , choose a supplement which has been made specifically for this purpose such as Medi Equus stud formula . |
| 11 | Mrs Probyn 's husband has told police that the pair , who 've been living apart for several months , had a row . |
| 12 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 13 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 14 | They 'd been living together for many years . |
| 15 | He had been trembling violently for several hours but now no sound came from the place where he lay . |
| 16 | Bruno 's been training hard for this fight in Leicester . |
| 17 | While Visa debit cards have been accepted internationally for some time , the Mastercard equivalent , Switch , is still waiting to be linked up to the Mastercard/Eurocard payment system . |
| 18 | The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century . |
| 19 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 20 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 21 | Later my surgeon was to tell me that the cancer had been growing away for many years . |
| 22 | His tenure of the post was short : his health had been declining progressively for several months as a result of overwork , and he died 5 February 1882 at his home at 7 Cornwall Street , Edinburgh . |
| 23 | Magnets have been used before for this purpose , but never in such a way that water has had to pass through several opposing magnetic fields . |
| 24 | Some have been used informally for many years , subjective assessments such as those made by parents , teachers , and librarians . |
| 25 | It may seem incredible that they could have been remembered accurately for many decades , but the construction of skaldic verse was complex , and features such as the binding of pairs of lines by allit-eration , and rhyme and consonance within lines , perhaps facilitated the correct transmission of individual words . |
| 26 | However , no money has been allocated specifically for this purpose . |
| 27 | One afternoon , after they had been travelling together for several days , Cleo ordered Dauntless to pull Contralto to a halt . |
| 28 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 29 | Little by little you will start to release any unnecessary tension that may have been stored unknowingly for many years . |
| 30 | It was a warm night , and he had been studying hard for some hours . |