Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] have be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others still detained at the end of March had been held for almost 10 years . |
| 2 | The teacher was furious that the photograph taken in her new school on the outskirts of Middlesbrough had been used for political purposes . |
| 3 | A PLAN to build executive-style houses in an upmarket suburb of Middlesbrough has been refused for the second time . |
| 4 | A similar effect of GR has been observed for the orbit of the binary pair containing the pulsar 1913+16 : the advance of the periastron ( the line joining the stars at their point of nearest approach ) of the pulsar orbit is , at 4° per year , considerably larger than for Mercury 's orbit . |
| 5 | A consignment of vital arms for the war with the accursed President Sadeq of Iraq had been paid for by Teheran , to be delivered by ship . |
| 6 | Since very early times the rivers of Britain have been used for water transport . |
| 7 | A former sheriff of Nottingham has been jailed for fraud . |
| 8 | A former Sheriff of Nottingham has been jailed for fraud . |
| 9 | A former Sheriff of Nottingham has been jailed for fraud . |
| 10 | A Swiss Certificate of Airworthiness had been issued for the aircraft and no evidence was found that any fault existed in the engines , airframe or controls prior to the accident . |
| 11 | The operating software is available in modular fashion , with Encina having been selected for the transaction processing software , on the basis of its position as the de-facto transaction processing standard , as NEC sees it . |
| 12 | The operating software is available in modular fashion , with Encina having been selected for the transaction processing software , on the basis of its position as the de-facto transaction processing standard , as NEC sees it . |
| 13 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 14 | THREE former employees of the Top Man chain store in Coleraine have been sentenced for their part in a £10,000 theft of stock and cash from the branch . |
| 15 | Open fields alongside the M1 in Northamptonshire have been earmarked for the project . |
| 16 | A twenty five year old father from Worcester has been jailed for two years after his baby daughter suffered horrific injuries while in his care . |
| 17 | But first this lunchtime , the man who shot dead a German tourist in Stranraer in July has been jailed for life . |
| 18 | The Iranian consulate in Geneva had been occupied for four hours on Dec. 14 , 1988 , by opponents of the Tehran regime and evidence had been found that Tale had been collecting information on the Iranian exile community in Switzerland . |
| 19 | Originally , some 424 acres ( 170 hectares ) of land in Cramlington had been designated for industrial development . |
| 20 | By Nov. 15 , 25 students in Oujda had been sentenced for up to nine years in prison for involvement in the disturbances . |
| 21 | Two slip roads off the A19 in Cleveland have been closed for resurfacing work to be carried out . |
| 22 | Two prisoners of conscience in Laos have been held for over 15 years for ‘ re-education ’ . |
| 23 | The bovine TB bacterium was first isolated from a badger in June 1971 , some 20 years after farmers in Cornwall had been ridiculed for suggesting that badgers were involved in the spread of TB to cattle . |
| 24 | Twenty-two year old Gerald Bagshall from Barton Village Road in Oxford has been jailed for two years for possession and supply of drugs . |
| 25 | Gen. Ricardo Contreras , head of the Army Intelligence Battalion ( BIE ) which in September had been exposed for tapping civilian telephones [ see p. 39092 ] . |
| 26 | Andrew Hagans from Cheltenham has been jailed for life for the murder of the Gloucester office worker , Anna McGurk . |
| 27 | Twenty-five year old David Taylor of Chillingworth Crescent in Woodfarm has been jailed for eighteen months for possession of drugs . |
| 28 | CRUNCH talks over plans for a Sainsbury supermarket in Darlington have been re-scheduled for later this month . |
| 29 | Four information centres set up by the county council in libraries in towns and villages round Suffolk have been praised for their success . |
| 30 | AFTER INTENSE PRESSURE FROM BRUCE HARRIS AND THOUSANDS OF AMNESTY MEMBERS AROUND THE WORLD , POLICEMEN IN GUATEMALA HAVE BEEN RECONVICTED FOR THE MURDER OF NAHAMAN CARMONA LOPEZ |