Example sentences of "that [pers pn] have be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 2 | ‘ It is obvious that I have been exploited for propaganda purposes in a film in which I should never have allowed myself to appear , ’ he bitterly commented afterwards . |
| 3 | He confirmed that she had been invited for both the church service and the lunch . |
| 4 | Checking through her notes , the doctor saw that she had been treated for vaginal thrush on several occasions . |
| 5 | And in Amabel 's experience it had always been the wife who complained of it , Ethel Lord , for instance , fretting herself into a decline , or very nearly , when her husband had taken to spending so much time in Leeds ; Maria Colclough turning to religion because her man emerged so rarely from his counting house ; even strident Lizzie Braithwaite complaining that she had been neglected for the sake of the business . |
| 6 | And Anjelica Huston returned to her own home saying that she had been humiliated for the very last time . |
| 7 | Now that she 's been nominated for an Oscar , it would be natural for there to be competition between them . |
| 8 | I refer to your recent application for the above position and am pleased to advise that you have been selected for interview . |
| 9 | Further to your recent interview for the above post , I am pleased to advise that you have been selected for short-list interview . |
| 10 | I refer to your recent application for the above position and am pleased to inform you that you have been selected for interview . |
| 11 | His wife now feared that they had been punished for his presumption . |
| 12 | The UAE news agency WAM reported that they had been expelled for " activities which harm relations between the two countries including the fabrication of false reports about the Sudanese community in the UAE " . |
| 13 | " I have been connected with different unions for this last twenty years " , he declared to the Royal Commission on Labour in 1892 , " but I am sorry to state that they have been formed for the benefit of one man , for he has generally cleared out with the funds " . |
| 14 | Often these can provide extremely useful teaching material , despite the fact that they have been produced for the general public , rather than with a school 's audience in mind . |
| 15 | They were then very pleased to read in the book that it had been done for the very same reasons . |
| 16 | If he can prove that it has been exercised for 20 years before the date of an action , it will be presumed that it has existed from ’ time immemorial ’ . |
| 17 | My main criticism of intensive agricultural production , and of animal farming in particular , is that it has been locked for too long into a model-T-Ford-type philosophy , geared to produce a standard commodity as cheaply as possible . |
| 18 | Furthermore , from a banker 's standpoint a bill that indicates that the merchandise has been ‘ shipped ’ or placed ‘ on board ’ is preferable to one which merely states that it has been received for future shipment . |
| 19 | Only about one quarter claim that it has been used for INSET purposes in their schools and even fewer claim that its use has resulted in any changes . |
| 20 | For example , it is still commonplace in cartoons to show cavemen and dinosaurs together , despite the fact that it has been known for many years that dinosaurs were extinct long before the evolution of ‘ cavemen ’ . |
| 21 | Is not the Minister aware that it has been known for some time that four times as many women as men suffer the chronic pain that comes from the loss of movement in and the fracture of hip joints ? |
| 22 | He says that it has been known for drugs to be smuggled in large packages . |
| 23 | According to Advanced Micro , the 210 has proven such a popular architecture that it has been chosen for the first speed and power upgrades . |
| 24 | The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek . |
| 25 | Shortly afterwards his father died : he felt that he had been punished for expecting too much . |
| 26 | He had joined up as Air Crew , and for several weeks had walked around proudly with the white flash in his cap , denoting that he had been selected for flying . |
| 27 | ‘ He was not in the premier division of drugs dealers in Belfast and police have no reason to contradict his assertion that he had been involved for a short time , ’ the Crown lawyer added . |
| 28 | In the following year his son-in-law ( Sir ) John Wolley [ q.v. ] told him that he had been recommended for the vice-presidency of Wales . |
| 29 | Could his intended victim have somehow guessed , from an unguarded look perhaps , that he had been marked for death ? |
| 30 | It was true he had had no stomach for the pallid lamb chops that he had been offered for lunch . |