Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 8 | Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar . |
| 9 | We 've just been overcharged for this sandwich . |
| 10 | What she longed to ask him was : ‘ Have I ever been missing for any time , Steve ? |
| 11 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 12 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 13 | Well over 5,000 units of quota have now been entered for that sale , date to be specified later , but almost certainly in April . |
| 14 | Though the system has now been modified for some years , local authorities still play a crucial role in the shaping of the local environment by , for example , forecasting the need for roads for travel to work or leisure , and thus plan on the basis of that need Planners seek to influence behaviour , for example , by deciding that particular zones will be devoted to industrial estates , others to shopping centres and residential use in order to harmonise traffic movement and so on . |
| 15 | This has indeed been shown for some chemicals , but the usual effect is to lower resistance to disease , rather than to make allergies more likely . |
| 16 | It was as if Chambers bad been waiting for this admission . |
| 17 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
| 18 | We have occasionally been asked for more news of , and items of particular interest to , UCN and external graduates . |