Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [verb] 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 | Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail . |
| 9 | Now er sure the programme has been delayed for all the reasons I I 've mentioned . |
| 10 | Mr Bell said : ‘ My programme has been set for many weeks and every day is tied up . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The huge space-based extravaganza has been gone for some time . |
| 15 | The research has been done for some time and the results have been known for some time , yet still the Government do nothing . |
| 16 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 17 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 18 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 19 | Why of course : the Essoldo had been built for these middle class folk in the 1930s — they were Patrons ! |
| 20 | The squinch had been known for some time and was used in Persia , Turkestan , Armenia and Asia Minor . |
| 21 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Here , after a campaign has been running for some time , a sample survey is used , in which questions are asked about the brands in the market in question : |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The association between smoking and cervical neoplasia , however , remains after adjustment has been made for such sexual risk factors . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The museum had been closed for several months because of a leaking roof . |