Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [be] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A case involving a company called Coloroll has been waiting for resolution by the European Court . |
| 2 | Michael Stein has been arrested for possession of drugs . |
| 3 | Some said at the time that Leviathan had been written for Cromwell , and indeed Hobbes did say that it supported a ‘ conscientious obedience to the present government ’ of the Protectorate . |
| 4 | The Caledonides of Britain and Ireland and the Hercynides of France , Spain and Portugal have been selected for study as representatives of the two main stratigraphic and structural domains of western Europe . |
| 5 | O — Outstanding : All details of the SPR have been entered and the SPR has been submitted for distribution to affected users . |
| 6 | O — Outstanding All details of the SPR have been entered and the SPR has been submitted for distribution to affected users . |
| 7 | O — Outstanding — All details of the SPR have been entered and the SPR has been submitted for distribution to affected users . |
| 8 | But first this lunchtime , the man who shot dead a German tourist in Stranraer in July has been jailed for life . |
| 9 | Dave Casteley has been sentenced for Arsen . |
| 10 | Professor Alex McDougall , convener of the institute 's VAT sub-committee , said ICAS had been pressing for Customs and Excise and the VAT tribunal to have to power to mitigate penalties . |
| 11 | Nigel had been summoned for jury duty on the date fixed for the event but his excuse of a prior engagement , whose nature he described , was accepted and he was excused . |
| 12 | If Ebert had been paying for Axel 's debauchery , the chances were that he was behind the death of the girl . |
| 13 | Charlotte and Alexander have been waiting for years . |
| 14 | England have been waiting for Chris Lewis to establish himself as a genuine allrounder since he made his debut in 1990 . |
| 15 | Authorities ranging from North Yorkshire to Dorset have been pressing for funds to convert existing boys ' attendance centres into mixed facilities . |
| 16 | Drug dealer Danny Gardiner has been jailed for life for the murder of police informer Chalkie White . |
| 17 | Cecil Jackson has been jailed for life for the murder of his wife : he strangled her and dumped her in a bath of acid . |
| 18 | The government had already agreed to meeting Unita this week and the UN had been waiting for Unita to set the date , UN officials said . |
| 19 | My head was n't really in the right state for assimilating all this stuff , but as far as I could gather , Uncle Rory had been trying for years to come up with something Creative ( his capital , his italics ) . |
| 20 | Now of course , in a , in a complete psychoanalysis , if Woodrow Wilson had been going for analysis , then all kinds of other aspects of his life and personality would have opened up . |
| 21 | Sylvia had been trying for years to overcome her claustrophobia , but with little or no success . |
| 22 | Dr Gilbert has pointed out that when the evangelist Hannah More remarked in 1789 on the existence of whole village populations no less estranged from the services of the Church than were heathens , she was belatedly recognising something which Wesley and Whitefield had been proclaiming for decades . |
| 23 | Thus , tests for organisms such as E coli and Shigella have been developed for use on drinking water supplies . |
| 24 | Great local artists like Gilberto Gil have been trying for years to promote their country 's music , but ( as with the African-music boom ) it has taken the combination of an enthusiastic American super-star and cosmopolitan French audiences to really make the change . |
| 25 | The transfer tribunal that 'll decide the fee for Nigel 's transfer from Nottingham Forrest to Liverpool has been set for July the twentieth in Walsall . |
| 26 | Colin McMillan 's WBO featherweight title challenge against Italian Maurizio Stecca has been fixed for Saturday May 16 at Alexandra Palace . |
| 27 | Irish champion Charlie Swann had been approached by trainer Homer Scott to ride the horse but Swann has been claimed for Cahervillahow trained by Mouse Morris . |
| 28 | Dubrovnik has been suffering for months in the Yugoslavian civil war . |
| 29 | When Clementis had been hung for treason |
| 30 | In addition , an attack toward Cambrai had been scheduled for November , and an offensive was due to begin in Italy . |