Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] for [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reintroduction of the Law on entry to and exit from the USSR had been delayed for almost 18 months in committee since its first reading . |
| 2 | They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company . |
| 3 | I remembered the dated way he had of addressing people — though he had been sacked for more serious matters . |
| 4 | Going back to the scene of the Crucifixion , do you think that you could add something to a scene which has been treated for almost 2000 years ? |
| 5 | The St Petersburg company had been criticized for increasingly right-wing broadcasting . |
| 6 | The changing distributions between 1970 and 1980 on this index have been calculated for over 100 countries , with some surprising results . |
| 7 | Informix Software Inc , Menlo Park , California has unveiled technical specifications for its next generation multithreaded databases , OnLine 6.0 and OnLine 7.0 , which have been optimised for massively parallel processing systems . |
| 8 | Informix Software Inc has unveiled technical specifications for its next generation multithreaded and databases , OnLine 6.0 and OnLine 7.0 , which have been optimised for massively parallel processing systems . |
| 9 | Furthermore , some of these sorts of approaches have been modified for more general use with those who are not already suffering a psychiatric disorder . |
| 10 | It would have been frozen for over thirty years . |
| 11 | Libyan politics has been dominated for over two decades by Col. Moamer al Kadhafi who came to power in the military coup of 1969 [ see p. 23569 ] . |
| 12 | But the vessel , now being fitting out in an estuary in northern Spain , has been designed for just one voyage . |
| 13 | It had been prepared for quite some time and the brunt of it was against the Serbs , ’ said Col Jovanovic . |
| 14 | Nora had been prepared for almost any response from John , except the one she got — or thought she had got . |
| 15 | He added that the inquiry had been hampered for about 24 hours by the violence on Tuesday night . |
| 16 | Now something 's been said for certainly fifteen years er that I can remember . |
| 17 | She was well aware that it would seem thoroughly feeble — if not downright pathetic — to refuse to accompany him to New York simply because they had been separated for almost five years . |
| 18 | An association between hypertension and diabetes has been suspected for over 70 years . |
| 19 | They 've been made for more recent Carnivals . |
| 20 | As competitors and spectators sat in the sunshine on the Royal Canoe Club 's lawn at the finish , slowly unwinding and chatting to friends , some of whom had not been seen for quite some time , the atmosphere was a mixture of international competition and relaxed gentility . |
| 21 | Which made me think of Springsteen and the fact that he had n't been fed for nearly twenty-four hours . |
| 22 | Densities of 2.64 to 2.73 g/cc have been measured for relatively clean sandstones . |
| 23 | Yeah , basically it 's always been but it has n't been enforced for quite some time , that the clean up rate is four pounds and hour which equates to six pound an hour on a Saturday . |
| 24 | It may be that it 's time to look again , even though this new rule has been enforced for only these elections , at this particular method of positive discrimination . |
| 25 | CRUNCH talks over plans for a Sainsbury supermarket in Darlington have been re-scheduled for later this month . |
| 26 | Nylon has been produced for about 50 years . |
| 27 | That is ludicrous because the term has been used for over ten years , it was coined by Labour councillors and has even been used jokingly by the people it referred to . |
| 28 | Numbers 420 and 427 have not been used for quite some time and will be sold by the MOD as surplus to requirements , perhaps to be purchased by some preserved railway ? |
| 29 | The smaller comprises 100,000 holders of ‘ traditional ’ with-profits policies which are invested totally in the participating fund ( none of which have been sold for about six years ) will be totally ring fenced , and both the investment profits and the ‘ infrastructure ’ profits — that is , the profits on the policy management — will remain the property of these policyholders . |
| 30 | But old habits die hard , especially those fashioned in the Pontypool front row , and the easy life has been postponed for yet another season . |