Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Septizonium , an ancient Roman temple at the south-east corner of the Palatine , which had long since been annexed for other uses , safe from outside interference and imperial troops , for it was still possible for emperors to attempt to interfere with elections , the election commenced after each cardinal had celebrated mass and all of them had exchanged the kiss of peace . |
| 2 | Latterly , until its closure in 1963 , it was used by the permanent-way department , and has since been sold for industrial purposes . |
| 3 | Nostrils had only been gone for ten minutes before the speaker announced : |
| 4 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 5 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 6 | Erm my course has only been running for three years . |
| 7 | Cos it 's only been running for three years |
| 8 | A superb SWAN which has only been used for private cruising in the Med . |
| 9 | The team has only been going for one term and we have only played two matches against other schools . |
| 10 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 11 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |
| 12 | US giants such as Microsoft have a strong commitment to multimedia CD-ROM publishing have long been searching for suitable properties . |
| 13 | As Westminster aide to the party leader , Mr Durkan has long been tipped for higher offices . |
| 14 | The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage . |
| 15 | He had obviously been searching for appropriate words of censure during the silence . |
| 16 | A similar undated sequence was recorded in Green Cutting to the east , where the courtyard had obviously been used for industrial activities prior to the demise of the associated building . |
| 17 | A trial date had finally been set for 17 June 1991 , but given the obvious flimsiness of the case , he was still concerned that somebody within the DEA might be tempted into direct action . |
| 18 | The memory of the heroism and sterling qualities of Rodrigo del Bivar have thus been enshrined for all time ; his statue stands today in the main square of Burgos , staring out forever across the lands he fought so long to transform . |
| 19 | By then Adis had already been hospitalised for three months . |
| 20 | A preliminary account of events up to the mid-1970s has already been given for both locales , which will stand as an account for Cramlington but some elaboration is necessary for North Shields . |
| 21 | Although the Hervert Laming letter of 13 December 1992 created its own furore about what should be written down , senior managers had already been debating for six months about whether care managers should bluff users and relatives about the money available for them . |
| 22 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 23 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 24 | The polytechnic which has already been commissioned for significant consultancy work into the performance of roofs , will conduct the statistical analysis assessing life-span criteria across a full spectrum of roof systems . |
| 25 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 26 | When a module name is first entered into LIFESPAN , it is checked to ensure that the same name has not already been chosen for another module . |
| 27 | But the American plan promotes only steps that have already been taken for other reasons . |
| 28 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 29 | I suppose over here we were not too aware of his antics when he was playing in france but i suspect UEFA will take all of that into consideration ( he 's already been banned for 10 months ) . |
| 30 | Only half of Europe 's largest industrial groups possess an environmental strategy , despite 20 per cent having already been fined for environmental transgressions , according to a report by the international environmental consultancy BDA Deloitte & Touche . |