Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [vb pp] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development is being promoted by the City of Edinburgh District Council , although it has not yet progressed to the submission of a planning application on which I have been asked for comments by the District Councils Director of Planning . |
| 2 | She had been prepared for tubes , drips , oxygen masks , machines that bleeped frantically , and anxious , hovering doctors in white coats ; not Bella , as truculent as ever , sitting up demanding cups of tea . |
| 3 | This script began with Aunt Lilian 's release from the shabby asylum in which she had been held for decades . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd been told for years how generous they would be , but when we challenged them , they had nothing for us . |
| 5 | We have been pestered for men to protect several houses , and as these people have such influence , we can not refuse . ’ |
| 6 | They have been nominated for exhibitions which have been held outside London or abroad . |
| 7 | Olives are grown in many Mediterranean countries , where they have been cultivated for centuries and have been an important trading crop since ancient times . |
| 8 | McHale plans to use the extra £50,000 he has been given for players ' wages to good effect . |
| 9 | He has been jailed for explosives offences in Ulster and has previously been denied a visa . |
| 10 | It has been advocated for decades , GCSE has helped the process , but it has taken the pressures generated by the national curriculum to bring an integration of library and subject work . |
| 11 | The Master of the Armouries , curator of Britain 's historic arms and armour collection , who is hell-bent on creating just such a hybrid and abandoning the ancient Tower of London where it has been housed for centuries for a purpose-built , speculative complex in Leeds , is risking a gargantuan version of the ‘ Sporting Glory ’ fiasco , with the extra twist that if his project fails , his objects will have no home to go back to . |
| 12 | I will ask him some time what prompted his winning play but it has been known for players to forget matters like that after a week 's hard work . |
| 13 | He says that it has been known for drugs to be smuggled in large packages . |
| 14 | It has been known for caterers to come in at 8am , turn all the ovens on and not use them for three hours . ’ |
| 15 | When driving with the rear doors open , as is necessary on warm days to provide ventilation , exhaust fumes escape into the vehicle , making the journey for those in the back even more uncomfortable ; and it has been known for policemen in the back to fall out of the vehicle . |
| 16 | Finally , they could sometimes be accused of deception and dishonesty — it has been known for reporters from The Independent to lobby the lobby . |
| 17 | It has been known for centuries that music affects our state of mind and emotions , and so affects our body . |
| 18 | It has been known for Goblins to get so ambitious that the entire catapult springs from its mounts and hits the Goblin splat in the face , putting paid to the whole device . |
| 19 | It has been known for developers to move in virtually overnight to demolish a building once they find out attempts are being made to list it . |
| 20 | Moreover , it has been established for centuries that even where the threat of violence is less than this , consent will be negatived . |
| 21 | Because the land here is valuable most of it has been bought for shops and offices , many rebuilt in high multi-storey blocks . |
| 22 | Hangman 's Wood suffered so severely from the gales because , like much of our woodlands , it had been neglected for decades . |
| 23 | That was kept in a cabinet — but ‘ regrettably , ’ said Mr Boal , the lock on it had been broken for months . |
| 24 | It may never have been genuinely effective , or it may have failed because the organism lost its antibiotic properties when it had been grown for years in artificial cultures , or because its commercial manufacture was inadequately supervised . |
| 25 | It had all trees on it and looked as if it had been made for picnics . |
| 26 | But it had been fixed for days in its usual place and she was sure they would make for that . |
| 27 | The principle of treatment of like by like , however , had been enunciated by Hippocrates in the fifth century BC , but it had been forgotten for centuries until rediscovered by Hahnemann . |
| 28 | It had been rented for generations from a local landowner . |
| 29 | The motif was most probably introduced into Persia from China — where it had been used for centuries as a symbol of peace and tranquillity — and has subsequently been adapted to fulfil both the schematic and symbolic requirements of Islamic weavers . |
| 30 | No regular services had been held in it for many years , although it had been used for funerals and the occasional service , remaining open for visitors and pilgrims to Cell-y-bedd and the shrine . |