Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [been] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've just been overcharged for this sandwich . |
| 2 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 3 | they , they 've always been known for marvellous skin have n't they , the erm |
| 4 | ‘ I 've certainly been criticised for that . |
| 5 | I 've never been forgiven for that . ’ |
| 6 | US giants such as Microsoft have a strong commitment to multimedia CD-ROM publishing have long been searching for suitable properties . |
| 7 | To protect privacy , phone numbers have only been included for those governing bodies which have an office . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 10 | Sale terms are still being thrashed out with the buyers but heads of agreement have already been signed for all three . |
| 11 | But the American plan promotes only steps that have already been taken for other reasons . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And again there will be the same erm circumstances that I have just been describing for other people applying here . |
| 14 | ‘ I have always been prepared for that . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Intermittent series based on 50 year averages have also been calculated for another 50 items , and a large number of individual valuations for items which occur only rarely have also been collected . |
| 18 | The Scotsman has also established that consultants helping put the finishing touches to a feasibility study on Rosyth for Medway Ports have also been acting for Scottish Enterprise . |
| 19 | The team have also been called for 11 holding penalties in the last two games . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Blind and deaf people have also been recruited for certain jobs in central government , and a number of state governments have reserved a percentage of jobs for the disabled . |
| 22 | Well over 5,000 units of quota have now been entered for that sale , date to be specified later , but almost certainly in April . |
| 23 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many secondary schools in the London borough of Hillingdon have now been approved for grant-maintained status and how many applications are still outstanding . |
| 24 | Eight schools in Hillingdon have now been approved for grant-maintained status . |
| 25 | We told how monkeys from the two parks have been sent to Shamrock Farms , near Brighton , for breeding — and have then been sold for medical research or slaughtered . |
| 26 | It is worth mentioning , however , that it is not always the nasal pathways that have been observed to be superior ( Neill , Sampson and Gribben , 1971 ) and that naso-temporal differences have sometimes been observed for one eye but not for the other ( Overton and Weiner , 1966 ; Markowitz and Weitzman , 1969 ; Beaton , 1977 ; 1979a ) . |
| 27 | Arguably certain kinds of jobs ( such as those in the Civil Service ) have historically been reserved for male Oxbridge graduates in such ‘ useless ’ subjects as history and classics : sex and class may sometimes be greater indications of a person 's ‘ worth ’ than degree subject . |
| 28 | We have occasionally been asked for more news of , and items of particular interest to , UCN and external graduates . |
| 29 | Similar results have recently been published for basal gastrin concentrations in a small group of subjects matched for sex and age . |