Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] [vb pp] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because income support was introduced at a time when there would otherwise have been an increase in supplementary benefits , and because transitional protection has been provided for some groups of claimants who have been transferred to income support , the Government claims that relatively few people suffered an actual cut in benefit in April 1988 . |
| 2 | The majority of delegations have nevertheless said they are in favour of including such consequences within the scope of the law of contracts , but in order to take account of the opposition expressed provision has been made for any contracting state to enter a reservation on this matter : article 22(1) ( b ) . |
| 3 | Management considers that adequate provision has been made for any liability which may arise in respect of the years 1981 to 1983 . |
| 4 | No provision has been made for any taxation liability that would arise is these assets were disposed of at their revalued amount . |
| 5 | A computerised index has been prepared for these and other donations of commercial and ‘ folk ’ recordings . |
| 6 | Our awards are renowned for their transportability across the many countries in which the Board has been recognised for more than a century . |
| 7 | No one has yet argued that the attitudes of nineteenth-century working class wives ‘ modernised ’ , although such a case has been made for both young , single working class women and middle class wives . |
| 8 | Now er sure the programme has been delayed for all the reasons I I 've mentioned . |
| 9 | Mr Bell said : ‘ My programme has been set for many weeks and every day is tied up . ’ |
| 10 | Football has been transformed for most of those who follow it from a Saturday afternoon activity in all weathers to a Saturday night home entertainment . |
| 11 | Moreover , experience in New Zealand and Australia ( where the strict rule has been relaxed for some years ) has not shown that the non-availability of materials has raised these practical problems . |
| 12 | The huge space-based extravaganza has been gone for some time . |
| 13 | The research has been done for some time and the results have been known for some time , yet still the Government do nothing . |
| 14 | Why of course : the Essoldo had been built for these middle class folk in the 1930s — they were Patrons ! |
| 15 | The squinch had been known for some time and was used in Persia , Turkestan , Armenia and Asia Minor . |
| 16 | The draft for this is almost complete but it ca n't be finalised until the costs of the revised programme have been agreed for each of the participating nations . |
| 17 | Assimilation creates something of a problem for phoneme theory ; when , for example , in ‘ good ’ becomes in the context ‘ … girl ’ ( ) or in the context ‘ … boy ’ ( ) , should we say that one phoneme has been substituted for another ? |
| 18 | The importance of the environmentally fragile coastal zone has been recognised for some time , and in response to growing concern for coastal environments under pressure , a new group has been set up in BGS to draw on the experience of land and marine geologists , sedimentologists and coastal engineers The geology of a strip round the coast of the United Kingdom , which in places extends several kilometres offshore , is largely unexplored . |
| 19 | The importance of the coastal zone has been recognised for some time , and a new group has now been formed in BGS in response to growing concern for the environments under pressure in this potentially fragile area . |
| 20 | The association between smoking and cervical neoplasia , however , remains after adjustment has been made for such sexual risk factors . |
| 21 | In the Commons vote in June last year a majority of 123 was against any change , and MPs believed the issue had been settled for this Parliament . |
| 22 | Although we had been in the land of constant daylight for several days , the sun had been hidden for much of the time by high cloud . |
| 23 | The museum had been closed for several months because of a leaking roof . |
| 24 | FLARES on the Sun have been known for many years to produce powerful bursts of X-rays , gamma-rays and charged particles . |
| 25 | In New York , visitors to the Studio Museum have been prepared for this recasting of Lam by a retrospective of his works on paper at the Americas Society , which travels to Barcelona 's Fundacio ‘ La Caixa ’ on 21 January . |
| 26 | Occasionally official syllabuses contain very detailed advice for teachers and in one case ( Botswana ) , a separate , loose-leaf file has been prepared for each grade , but in many cases it is the teachers ' guide , or even the pupils ' text which provides the real plan from which the teacher works . |
| 27 | The hotline has been established for former pupils , families and staff at New Barns school at Toddington in Gloucestershire , which is at the centre of a police investigation after the vice-chairman of the governors , Peter Righton was arrested and questioned about alleged pornography . |
| 28 | Salicylate nephrotoxicity has been recognised for many years . |
| 29 | The other eye had been closed for most of the fight by a left hook that had caused a large amount of swelling both above and below the brow . |
| 30 | This routine had been established for more than a year , so it was no surprise when one Sunday evening in early November , he announced at the supper table , ‘ Me and Maisie 's set a date . |