Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experiments to find vine clones best suited to the solumological and climatical conditions of Champagne have been continuing for more than twenty years . |
| 2 | The power of Chaos had been growing for some years . |
| 3 | Others still detained at the end of March had been held for almost 10 years . |
| 4 | The same kind of damage has been described for the golden eagle feeding on roe deer ( Ratcliffe & Rowe , 1979 ) : when it penetrates the carcase through the shoulder region , it breaks through the scapula so as to extract the soft internal organs . |
| 5 | The teacher was furious that the photograph taken in her new school on the outskirts of Middlesbrough had been used for political purposes . |
| 6 | A PLAN to build executive-style houses in an upmarket suburb of Middlesbrough has been refused for the second time . |
| 7 | A number of strategies have been devised for risk stratification in post infarction patients , attempting to predict future cardiac events , particularly sudden death and reinfarction . |
| 8 | The sum of £60 had been raised for the Telethon Appeal and further weekend competitions are on the programme . |
| 9 | In addition , a series of indices have been developed for demonstrating breakage in the skull and mandible , recognizing several stages of breakage of the bones and loss of the teeth from the jaws . |
| 10 | The distinction between public and private spheres of existence has been used for centuries to exclude women from the activities through which larger social processes are effected ; it has made of them goods to be protected , the stakes for which wars are fought by men . |
| 11 | It is beyond conception , the marvel of the age , large sums of money have been refused for it . ’ |
| 12 | The second equally obvious point is that , given the disparate analyses , a variety of prescriptions have been offered for dealing with the presumed causes of the nation 's ills . |
| 13 | It is possible that this unexpected increase may not have occurred if a greater number of subjects had been used for the shadowing tasks . |
| 14 | A systemic mode of action has been suggested for calcium but this seems unlikely from the present study since the serum values of calcium and phosphate were similar in the different groups . |
| 15 | More than 100 MPs have already signed a Commons Motion asking the Government to reject proposals to change the present 999 system and a Day of Action has been organised for December 8 by the Union of Communication Workers . |
| 16 | The theory of the new international division of labour has been criticized for its uncompromising condemnation of TNC operations in the Third World , on the grounds that there is not very much that is new about it and that it relies on an empirical base that is far too limited ( see , for example , Cohen , 1987 , ch.7 ; Jenkins , 1984 ; Gordon , 1988 ) . |
| 17 | Dr Horn 's assessment is that by the 1790s the southern farm labourer 's standard of living had been falling for thirty years , and that an increase of around 85 per cent in money wages over the war years kept it just about level up to 1815 . |
| 18 | The importance of readability has been upheld for so long that all manner of methods have been devised for its measurement . |
| 19 | A wide variety of methods has been developed for the preparation of such samples , which are described as matrix-isolated . |
| 20 | The importance of readability has been upheld for so long that all manner of methods have been devised for its measurement . |
| 21 | First , a new model of management had been introduced for managers to emulate , based on private sector practices and precepts . |
| 22 | In cases where there have been failures to make applications to licensing courts in time for them to be heard at statutory sittings , the Court of Session has been petitioned for directions , in virtue of its nobile officium , to licensing courts to hold special sittings to deal with non-timeous applications . |
| 23 | A similar effect of GR has been observed for the orbit of the binary pair containing the pulsar 1913+16 : the advance of the periastron ( the line joining the stars at their point of nearest approach ) of the pulsar orbit is , at 4° per year , considerably larger than for Mercury 's orbit . |
| 24 | The fourteenth Earl of Home had been marked for prominence since childhood . |
| 25 | " No prahus can put to sea before the black goat of stability and the white cock of courage have been sacrificed for a safe journey . |
| 26 | Due to afforestation a gradual stream of workers has been released for re-employment and this will continue . |
| 27 | Peter Purton , an executive member of the lesbian and gay rights campaign , said now the idea of a common age of consent had been supported for a fourth time , he hope that the leadership would finally accept the commitment and ensure it went into the manifesto . |
| 28 | Having established this knowledge a system of ideas has been formulated for intervening and hence preventing the disease or problem . |
| 29 | In addition , three seminars for general SVQ co-ordinators from schools , colleges , and other centres involved in piloting the first batch of awards have been arranged for March . |
| 30 | Mike noticed a group of heavy gamblers , most of them Greek , move towards the baccarat room , where the Sultan of Rupolei had been losing for the last hour . |