Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [vb pp] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd be secondhand shoes because they 've been worn for three days . |
| 2 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
| 3 | In a quiet , gentle , but troubled voice , Cardiff said , ‘ You 've been gone for twenty-six years , Barbara . ’ |
| 4 | You 've been made for other things than politics and intrigue . ’ |
| 5 | they 've been done for many years |
| 6 | We 've also included in there , on item twelve , a net bill item , but does need to be recognized as an addition to your total spending , and that is , you 've been involved for many years with the health authority in arranging for the discharge of people from long-stay hospitals , and their absorption into the community , and each of these are a provider of many services , and daycare services to those particular individuals . |
| 7 | We 've been bugged for 10 years by a reputation for extremism and division , which we 're just getting rid of . |
| 8 | That 's correct , and that the further down , I mean it says that er there is a er it says that the reason you 've had been the reason you 've been sent for this treatment is because of er a particular condition you 've got . |
| 9 | ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone . |
| 10 | He , too , married a girl of his own milieu ; they 've been separated for many years . |
| 11 | No I did n't Stefan , we 've been blamed for some things in our time , have n't we but |
| 12 | A spokesman said : ‘ Less than half of our 1.35m junior accounts — that is , for savers aged less than 16 — have been registered for gross payment of interest . |
| 13 | Corpus availability is currently limited due to legal constraints although some have been cleared for academic research . |
| 14 | High-bay systems have been constructed for palletized case storage , small-parts storage , long load storage and even for the storage of fully assembled motor cars ( with fuel on board ) . |
| 15 | They are peaceful people , too , and many of them have been persecuted for that love of peace : Arthur Raistrick , Yorkshire Dalesman and the greatest living Dales historian , was imprisoned as a pacifist during the First World War , while in earlier times , the Quakers led by William Penn fled to America where they founded Pennsylvania , the capital city of which is Philadelphia , the city of brotherly love . |
| 16 | During June and early July full day HS&E training programmes have been arranged for senior managers and divisional coordinators which will form the basis for communication within each company . |
| 17 | A The law allows any couple to seek a divorce on the grounds of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage once they have been separated for two years . |
| 18 | A number of other studies have also shown that non-traditional students who have been carefully selected on the basis of criteria which relate to the ability to meet the demands of higher education , or have been prepared for higher education , have relatively high completion rates when compared with all students . |
| 19 | This work demonstrates that there are considerable grounds for optimism regarding the performance of students with non-standard entry qualifications who have been prepared for higher education through special Access Courses . |
| 20 | In New York , visitors to the Studio Museum have been prepared for this recasting of Lam by a retrospective of his works on paper at the Americas Society , which travels to Barcelona 's Fundacio ‘ La Caixa ’ on 21 January . |
| 21 | The increases of £2.15 or £3.45 that have been announced for next April are not enough in terms of the basic state pension , which supplies most of the income for the majority of our pensioners . |
| 22 | Saving the best fruit until last , our most enthusiastic comments have been reserved for this yacht 's performance under sail . |
| 23 | The Red Cross primarily visits those inmates who are former National Guardsmen or who have been sentenced for counter-revolutionary activity . |
| 24 | But the conditions in Greek state psychiatric hospitals have been exposed for many years . |
| 25 | The village of Stoke Row in south Oxfordshire might seem a world away from India , but the two have been connected for 130 years . |
| 26 | ‘ But the win over Wimbledon means that our hopes have been extended for another week and we are still in the ball game . |
| 27 | ITV has been thrown into disarray because the current franchises have been extended for three years while the Government introduces a new free market framework . |
| 28 | • In rodents , rhythms continue to develop in animals that have been reared for several generations in constant conditions . |
| 29 | The chronicler Hall emphasised the consternation produced by the government 's success in establishing a basis for swingeing taxation , and although wealth can seldom or never have been overstated for fiscal purposes , the Rutland muster book could perhaps be the exception that bears out his claim that ‘ some avaunced them selfes more than they were worth of pride , not remembryng [ realising/ suspecting ] what was coming ’ , naively succumbing to the blandishments of the commissioners , who ‘ did what they could to set the people to the vttermoste ’ . |
| 30 | Yesterday 's announcement of 420 job losses came after a meeting between the receivers and union representatives at the yard , where warships have been built for 130 years . |