Example sentences of "have been put [adv] for the " in BNC.

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1 Various explanations have been put forward for the existence of such large , complex setts and the presence of outlier setts .
2 Similar explanations have been put forward for the distributions of herbaceous plants , as in Ischnosiphon spp .
3 We first meet Richard Faucenbois as a boy approaching his twelfth birthday in The Black Riders ; The Stormy Petrel and The House of the Paladin return to the boy at fourteen and fifteen , when he has already earned his nickname of the Stormy Petrel , and in The Betrayer he moves into his sixteenth year with agonising decisions to make ; in three later books ( Richard and the Golden Horseshoe , The Red Rose of Ruvina and The Secret of the White Peacock , he is in his mid-twenties and the chases and escapes of youth have been put aside for the role of diplomat and teacher .
4 You may laugh , but already deposits worth £30,000 have been put down for the book and at least 5,000 people have telephoned bookshops to express an interest .
5 Plainly if only two numbers have been put together for the main number , added entry headings can be generated merely by reversing the component number ( e.g. main entry under 331.2:687.9 and added entry under 687.9:331.2 ) .
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