Example sentences of "they have be [vb pp] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’ |
| 2 | Of course not , they 've been elected for a period , they serve to the end of that period , whether they 're made redundant or not , so they go on for the four year term . |
| 3 | They 've been engaged for a year , and it was decided the wedding could take place during August , when there is just routine spraying and pruning to be done , well before the vendange itself , when I can not do without him . ’ |
| 4 | They 've been bought for the fact that all over the country there 's all these holes in the wall and people are putting up shelves , building furniture or whatever . |
| 5 | They claim they 've been taken for a ride . |
| 6 | As Middlemass ( 1979 , p. 443 ) remarks of the Act , the TUC ‘ could hardly have accepted such a reversal of the terms of politics as they had been understood for a generation . ’ |
| 7 | There they had been questioned for a long time , in a way which — Alice could see , watching Bert 's face as he told the tale — had not only impressed but sobered the two . |
| 8 | Oxford 's bluff worked for some time , but when by late 1713 the Jacobites finally realised they had been taken for a ride , they began to look to Bolingbroke for support . |
| 9 | They had been admitted for the surgical treatment of the following conditions : group e : benign disease ( comprising patients with benign colorectal tumours ( two ) , plus those with chronic cholecystitis ; group f : inflammatory bowel disease ( all patients had moderately active ulcerative colitis with diffuse involvement of the whole colon , but no evidence at laparotomy or on liver function tests of hepatic damage ) ; group g : colorectal carcinoma . |
| 10 | But although they had been settled for the moment the two great political problems of the next half-century had already been foreshadowed : first , the tensions within the Angevin family ; second , the feudal question of the relationship between lord and vassal , between Capetian and Angevin . |
| 11 | They have been selected for the quality of their objectives and will involve working in partnership with geographers , conservationists and ecologists in the countries they visit . |
| 12 | These crystals are usually very small , but they have been detected for a range of polymers including polyesters , polyamides , polyethylene , cellulose acetate , and poly ( 4-methyl pentene-1 ) . |
| 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 have been criticised for the choice of colours associated with warfare , but up here in these hills surrounded by an army of uniformed police , US marshalls and private security guards all bristling with weapons , it is war : UMWA vice-president Cecil Roberts has said as much . |
| 16 | They have been chosen for the posts in other parts of the country because their employers consider them to be the best people for these particular jobs . |
| 17 | This causes a reaction even after they have been entangled for the rabbits are inclined to bite at the net if they are left within it for too long . |
| 18 | These are called reaves and , while they have been known for a long time , their age , extent and probable purpose have only recently been recognised . |
| 19 | But few dogs make better companions than a well trained Shepherd , and they have been used for a wide variety of tasks , aside from their traditional role of protecting flocks of sheep . |