Example sentences of "have [adv] been [vb pp] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The precedent has thus been set for countries to participate in certain areas of common European interest without accepting all EEC structures and policies in their entirety . |
| 2 | SIX weeks after the Braer disaster , Shetland farmed salmon may be starving to death because compensation has not been paid for losses , writes Auslan Cramb . |
| 3 | ( 3 ) That on the taking of the said accounts and inquiry costs of and incidental to proceedings on an indemnity basis are not to be disallowed on the ground that an order has already been made for costs of and incidental to those proceedings to be taxed on a standard basis unless it should appear that in making the said order the court intended thereby to deprive the defendants of the right to add those costs or some part thereof to the mortgage security . |
| 4 | His life was saved by his cell mate , who has also been treated for burns , but is now back behind bars . |
| 5 | The silver has n't been polished for weeks . ’ |
| 6 | All this in the most magnificent scenery , a national park where the natural forest has n't been logged for years and grazing sheep is prohibited so as not to upset the natural balance . |
| 7 | ( Wendy is brought up from the hold and sees at a glance that the deck has n't been scrubbed for years . ) |
| 8 | I know a way out of Parfois that has n't been used for years , but it 's still open if you know where to find it . |
| 9 | In the big front room the flags were as good as new — no wear at all — and Hannah told me it had only been used for funerals and pig-killings . |
| 10 | We were told , because of the shortage of paper , we were told only to use secondhand papers er paper that had already been used for letters or memos when writing to the Clerks ' Department and erm we erm used to get the grubbiest paper that we could and then you had to condense it and type it erm without too much space and erm that went over to the Clerks ' Department , then erm when it got over th oh sorry you had to trim off the edges erm so that there was no spare paper left around the memo so that er you know there was just this little bit of paper with the |
| 11 | As for the hair which used to be trimmed by a top London stylist and had swung in a smooth shoulder-skimming bob , it had not been cut for months and was now bundled unceremoniously on to the top of her head . |
| 12 | His hair , which had not been cut for weeks , fell in silky waves around his face . |
| 13 | He built out of that illusion a political cause which stirred the British electorate as it had not been stirred for decades and which has left its imprint on the Conservative Party and on British trade policy down to the present . |
| 14 | This little Hampshire market town had not been designed for crowds such as these , and everyone kept on getting in everyone else 's way . |
| 15 | She put her head into the next room , an untidy and empty bathroom which looked as though the washbasin had not been cleaned for months . |
| 16 | The windows had not been opened for years and had forgotten how it went . |
| 17 | The only other entrance was a small door to the left of the sanctuary but that was closed with a padlock , rusting with age , and obviously had not been opened for years . |
| 18 | It was covered with climbing plants , and clearly had not been used for years . |
| 19 | It had traditionally been used for stores and dressing . |
| 20 | But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously . |
| 21 | I 'd dressed in my long dress , eaten breakfast bedu fashion , discussed the children 's health with the Sheikha over coffee — the Youngest Son had had far too many headaches and his usual teasing and joking had n't been seen for days . |
| 22 | Two witnesses , his sister , Mrs Rosalie Temple , and a friend , Mr James Robson , said that Mr Smith was an old-fashioned farmer living in an old-fashioned world — a house which had n't been altered for decades and which still depended on spring water . |
| 23 | Their daughter , Carla , nearly five now , looked as if she had n't been washed for days . |
| 24 | Apart from the forays of his brother-in-law , Charles Coxen , this area had never been explored for birds . |
| 25 | erm as if a window had never been opened for years and years and years that type of a house . |
| 26 | The whole family are coming , it 's all been arranged for ages — and I 'm not there ! ’ |
| 27 | Provisional bookings have already been made for entertainers like Freddie Starr , Bob Monkhouse and Tammy Wynette to play the former Beehive Ballroom in McMullen Road . |
| 28 | Guidelines for the documentation of machine-readable files have already been suggested for historians currently generating computerised transcripts of historical source materials , and the adaptation of these may prove to be very beneficial . |
| 29 | RESERVATIONS have already been taken for houses at Longwood Park near Warrington and the show homes only open this month . |
| 30 | IR systems have not been designed for end-users and require the skills of an intermediary . |