Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [vb pp] 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 | A superb SWAN which has only been used for private cruising in the Med . |
| 5 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 6 | As Westminster aide to the party leader , Mr Durkan has long been tipped for higher offices . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By then Adis had already been hospitalised for three months . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But the American plan promotes only steps that have already been taken for other reasons . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | By the time the Master himself arrived in London to be examined in August 1669 , he had already been suspended for two months past by the Chancellor of the Archbishop of York until the controversy could be settled . |
| 19 | In 1947 when Frank had his insight the existence of muons had already been known for ten years and the existence of muonic atoms had also been predicted . |
| 20 | We 've just been overcharged for this sandwich . |
| 21 | ACCORDING to the Daily Mail , a doctor in Florida has just been busted for charging people £12 a time for a new dieting aid . |
| 22 | They all came down and used to come in our rooms and all sorts of other and I met some very ni and of course , all nationalities , you see and no matter what they were , well of course Cambridge has always been noted for different nationalities , has n't it ? |
| 23 | they , they 've always been known for marvellous skin have n't they , the erm |
| 24 | Mexicans have always been known for heavy drinking because traditional forms of alcohol are cheap , peasants often making their own , and this is a classic way of forgetting the drudgery of poverty . |
| 25 | The pond has once been treated for White Spot , which occurred on six newly-purchased fish , but no other chemicals have been necessary . |
| 26 | The Bank has only once been sued for regulatory failure , after it rescued Johnson Matthey Bankers ; the case was settled out of court in 1986 in the Bank 's favour . |
| 27 | Moreover the two bishops standing at the foot of the throne had both been appointed for administrative work done in the King 's service . |
| 28 | Tenders have also been called for 7,500 hp Co-Co two-voltage Railfreight locomotives capable of operating on both sides of the Channel , and BREL ( 1988 ) Ltd has already submitted initial designs . |
| 29 | The differential is even greater when pedestrian fatalities are singled out for analysis ; and significant class discrepancies have also been observed for specific types of non-fatal accident , such as burns and scalds . |
| 30 | For a small group of workers , however , who had experienced above average external exposure and had also been monitored for internal contamination by radionuclides , the mortality from cancer of the prostate gland and the lung was raised ( Beral et al , 1988 ) . |