Example sentences of "have been [verb] for this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The SIB 's new Conduct of Business Core Rule 28 has been adopted for this purpose .
2 An appointment has been made for this morning , but there is expected to be a delay before results are known .
3 A seminar has been planned for this autumn and the Drouot Foundation has invited the Pavlovsk Museum to show its collection in Paris .
4 DEAN Jones , ever-present during an era of Australian domination and English humiliation , has been dumped for this summer 's Ashes battle .
5 A particularly influential way of studying them was outlined by Ninian Smart , one of the first members of the Shap Working Party which has been campaigning for this approach since the early 1970s : religions each have at least six dimensions : doctrinal , mythological , ethical , ritual , experiential and social .
6 Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years .
7 Hobson and McCarley 's thesis has also been developed in a recent essay by Martin Seligman and Amy Yellen , whose title — " What is a dream ? " — has been borrowed for this chapter .
8 BELOW The same evidence has been used for this house , but the reconstruction is quite different .
9 At the time of going to press , not one person has been nominated for this post .
10 I must say that the black and gold hardware that has been chosen for this guitar is excellent , too .
11 The Department of Health 's annual Keep Warm , Keep Well campaign to advise elderly people has been launched for this winter .
12 McTear 's version of Garvey 's system has been adapted for this purpose with the addition of one category — the potential request for specification — which our data seemed to demand .
13 She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again .
14 so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that .
15 Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses .
16 In fact , some small part of the new funds might indeed have been used for this purpose as the societies ' balance sheet shows , but it will be only a very small proportion of the total funds received .
17 Mr Jones , 55 , said : ‘ I am very surprised to have been selected for this award , but extremely pleased . ’
18 Unfortunately the only categories included in the criteria for grants which might be exploited by the arts do not appear to have been designed for this purpose .
19 In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too .
20 As is traditional , the trophies which were won throughout the year had been saved for this occasion and presented to their recipients after dinner .
21 No contingency plans had been made for this eventuality .
22 Viking is way behind schedule : it had been intended for this quarter , but StorageTek said that based on the present status of the product and schedule estimates it expects IBM-compatible products based on Viking architecture to be available in the second half of 1994 .
23 At present , no minister could answer a parliamentary question by saying that whatever his views on the matter , responsibility had been allocated for this function to Assistant Secretary Brown and it was up to that official to take whatever course of action he thought best to achieve the set objectives .
24 In the Commons vote in June last year a majority of 123 was against any change , and MPs believed the issue had been settled for this Parliament .
25 Dowd had been waiting for this man , Matthias McGann , to say his piece .
26 Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life …
27 As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan .
28 It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more .
29 Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side .
30 ‘ I asked him how he had been chosen for this honour and he told me ‘ I was pushed ’ ’ .
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