Example sentences of "have [adv] been [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latterly , until its closure in 1963 , it was used by the permanent-way department , and has since been sold for industrial purposes . |
| 2 | As Westminster aide to the party leader , Mr Durkan has long been tipped for higher offices . |
| 3 | Its proper specification has only been given for some simple cases . |
| 4 | A superb SWAN which has only been used for private cruising in the Med . |
| 5 | It has only been opened for two years and is a nice modern hospital though not as posh as Pat 's . |
| 6 | One of my bigger irritations is when I have an enormously tight schedule taking me all over the country and I get calls — sometimes on my mobile phone when I 'm stuck in the middle of a field somewhere — insisting that it 's vitally important I attend a meeting that has just been scheduled for three o'clock that afternoon in London , which could easily have been planned at least two weeks earlier . |
| 7 | ACCORDING to the Daily Mail , a doctor in Florida has just been busted for charging people £12 a time for a new dieting aid . |
| 8 | A preliminary account of events up to the mid-1970s has already been given for both locales , which will stand as an account for Cramlington but some elaboration is necessary for North Shields . |
| 9 | Once operational , the existing scouring machine presently located in the dye house will be moved along-side its new partner , where foundation work has already been completed for this major operation . |
| 10 | Competitive tendering ( see also Chapter 3 , page 47 ) has already been introduced for many ancillary services ( eg cleaning , catering ) and has reduced costs , although some health authorities have found that quality of service has also suffered . |
| 11 | The polytechnic which has already been commissioned for significant consultancy work into the performance of roofs , will conduct the statistical analysis assessing life-span criteria across a full spectrum of roof systems . |
| 12 | The pond has once been treated for White Spot , which occurred on six newly-purchased fish , but no other chemicals have been necessary . |
| 13 | They all came down and used to come in our rooms and all sorts of other and I met some very ni and of course , all nationalities , you see and no matter what they were , well of course Cambridge has always been noted for different nationalities , has n't it ? |
| 14 | Although the term ‘ allometry ’ has usually been reserved for morphological and physiological variables related to size , this restriction is unfortunate . |
| 15 | Beauty and the Beast proved highly popular and was given with many casts during later seasons ; it has also been revived for several other companies , with various designers . |
| 16 | This format of radio and newspaper features has also been considered for Gaelic Literacy and for a horticulture course , with the materials to be printed by offset-litho . |
| 17 | Another version of the Mach 210 has also been introduced for asynchronous applications . |
| 18 | This meeting has now been arranged for 11th March at which a number of matters that have also been brought up at the various members ' meetings will be queried . |
| 19 | The entire herd has now been bought for epidemiological research at about £200 a head over the normal abattoir price . |
| 20 | Though the system has now been modified for some years , local authorities still play a crucial role in the shaping of the local environment by , for example , forecasting the need for roads for travel to work or leisure , and thus plan on the basis of that need Planners seek to influence behaviour , for example , by deciding that particular zones will be devoted to industrial estates , others to shopping centres and residential use in order to harmonise traffic movement and so on . |
| 21 | A London born terrorist has today been jailed for six months in Amsterdam on arms offences . |
| 22 | It has increasingly been used for technical as well as valuation issues , and for dispute resolution . |
| 23 | This has indeed been shown for some chemicals , but the usual effect is to lower resistance to disease , rather than to make allergies more likely . |
| 24 | A tendency has sometimes been observed for several successive eruptions to occur with noticeable periodicity and for successive thermals to be in the same places each time . |
| 25 | Housing has been built on housing land and industrial land has either been retained for industrial purposes or is being redesignated by the planning process itself . |
| 26 | Since then , as has previously been noted for interregional migration , the composition of migration streams from the cities has become even more highly skewed towards the better-off . |
| 27 | This is when free will has again been used for egotistical desires , your need for power , riches , or a soft ride . |
| 28 | It was first used in readability experiments ( Taylor , 1953 ) , but has subsequently been used for formal and informal testing of reading comprehension , and in a dozen different ways for work in reading development . |
| 29 | A special meeting has therefore been called for two weeks time in order to press forward with ideas that could be implemented next season . |
| 30 | That approach has recently been recommended for all listed companies by Britain 's Institutional Shareholders Committee . |