Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said people receiving the letter should not worry that they have been singled out for any genuine reason . |
| 2 | The Cavaliers and Roundheads have been stocking up for another season , re-enacting the English Civil War . |
| 3 | While Visa debit cards have been accepted internationally for some time , the Mastercard equivalent , Switch , is still waiting to be linked up to the Mastercard/Eurocard payment system . |
| 4 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 5 | Although the modules have been developed primarily for those in adult basic education , they are suited to a wide range of client groups . |
| 6 | Individual project boards have been set up for each area of market testing . |
| 7 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 8 | The lessons are recorded so that the trainee 's performance can be reviewed and measured against criteria which have been set down for that skill . |
| 9 | ‘ You have been thrown over for another woman , that 's what I think . |
| 10 | Stone and marble fixtures weighing 400 tonnes from a garden in Boston have been shipped over for this sale . |
| 11 | I have been waiting only for that so that I might go . ’ |
| 12 | Similar schemes have been drawn up for several mammalian groups , certain butterfly genera , various reptiles and amphibians while a good deal of work has been carried out on the distributions of the avifauna . |
| 13 | Magnets have been used before for this purpose , but never in such a way that water has had to pass through several opposing magnetic fields . |
| 14 | Some have been used informally for many years , subjective assessments such as those made by parents , teachers , and librarians . |
| 15 | A great deal of technological work has been done recently on the seasoning of wood , and safe accelerated drying schedules have been worked out for all kinds and dimensions of timber . |
| 16 | Siemens says that few major innovations have been brought out for this small but very steady market for the past 10 years , which should guarantee take-up . |
| 17 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 18 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 19 | Since then , various voluntary groups throughout the campus , the UK and abroad have come forward with names and addresses of active alumni , some of whom have been networking enthusiastically for many years outwith the official organisation of either the Graduates Association of the University . |
| 20 | Pilot tests have been carried out for much of this year with both the Choice loans package and direct access , but TSB Direct was formally established on November 1 . |
| 21 | The degrees have been designed primarily for those already employed in the chemical or biological industries for whom a degree is necessary or desirable for promotion to a more senior appointment . |
| 22 | Approximate methods have been required therefore for any practical use of relaxation theory . |
| 23 | Many and varied reasons have been put forward for this basic element of practice , but they can be summarized under three headings : ideological reasons ( the right of a person to decide for himself or the recognition of this as an existential reality ) , educational and developmental reasons ( participation as part of human growth and development , for the individual , the family , the group , the organization or the community ) , and political reasons ( participation as a means to enfranchisement and empowerment , an antidote to alienation ) ( Ross , 1960 ; Bernstein , 1960 ; Katan , 1980 ; Freedberg , 1989 ; Rothman , 1989 ) . |