Example sentences of "that have been [vb pp] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Frome there was one more natural disaster to come before the year was out : the afternoon of September 17th saw ‘ One of the highest floods that has been remembered perhaps for these 20 years ’ , according to Crocker . |
| 2 | There is no point in ransacking the cellar for the finest bottled sunshine that has been put away for the special occasion . |
| 3 | This reverberation unit is based on a c.c.d. delay line that has been designed specifically for operation in reverberation circuits . |
| 4 | Bars that had been put there for their protection when the room had been a nursery for the four girls : Daisy , Ethel , Lily , Amy , the little daughters of Alfred Greenwood , founder of a chain of grocery shops serving the clothing trade of Leeds , in the West Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 5 | With the approaching end of war in 1918 coalition became more positive because the coalition now had to deal with the issues that had been put aside for the duration , and more controversial because this pushed some Unionists into outright opposition . |
| 6 | Eventually , they talked themselves out ; or at least the talk became overlaid by the preparations for the Christmas feast , only two weeks away , and those matters of business that had been laid aside for the Earl 's attention : the visits he had to make , and the people he had to see . |
| 7 | A short time later , a car pulled into the underground drive-through that had been set aside for taxis and pick-ups at the mainline rail terminus . |
| 8 | Parking the car in the small space beneath the house that had been set aside for it , Belinda skimmed silently up the back stairs . |
| 9 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 10 | We have a great deal of sympathy er but whereas I do n't think some of the ideas that have been floated tonight for a Cornwall and Gibraltar West seat er or erm any kind of link up between Cornwall and any tail end of a Welsh seat we do n't think is practical and I think he 's got ta solve this problem er within the confines of Cornwall being regarded as part of England if not Anglo Saxon . |
| 11 | I have listened carefully to the arguments that have been advanced both for and against the revival of the Bill . |
| 12 | This chapter will look at the different explanations that have been put forward for girls ' 'failure' in education , and at some of the research that has been done in this area . |
| 13 | said I 've got a guy that 's been stood here for an hour , do n't know what to do with him . . |