Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They are peaceful people , too , and many of them have been persecuted for that love of peace : Arthur Raistrick , Yorkshire Dalesman and the greatest living Dales historian , was imprisoned as a pacifist during the First World War , while in earlier times , the Quakers led by William Penn fled to America where they founded Pennsylvania , the capital city of which is Philadelphia , the city of brotherly love . |
2 | In New York , visitors to the Studio Museum have been prepared for this recasting of Lam by a retrospective of his works on paper at the Americas Society , which travels to Barcelona 's Fundacio ‘ La Caixa ’ on 21 January . |
3 | Saving the best fruit until last , our most enthusiastic comments have been reserved for this yacht 's performance under sail . |
4 | But the conditions in Greek state psychiatric hospitals have been exposed for many years . |
5 | ‘ But the win over Wimbledon means that our hopes have been extended for another week and we are still in the ball game . |
6 | • In rodents , rhythms continue to develop in animals that have been reared for several generations in constant conditions . |
7 | Rift systems have been studied for many decades but have received renewed attention since the early 1970s because of their association with crustal upwarps and their role in continental rupture . |
8 | • In rare instances , new-born babies have been studied for several months in a constant environment in a hospital ward . |
9 | The difficulties in comparing the two modes of treatment have been understood for some time . |
10 | Values for van der Waals constants have been determined for many gases ( see table 3.3 ) . |
11 | Laws to prohibit discrimination on the ground of disability and to advance equal opportunities for disabled Britons have been mooted for some time . |
12 | Four pellet samples have been analysed for this species , two from England and one each from Wales and Scotland ( see Table 2.4 and the Appendix ) . |
13 | However , at all times questions have been asked for all sorts of reasons , ranging from the sheer desire for information to an attempt to trip up the Prime Minister on a major policy issue . |
14 | However , the know-how fund is doing extremely good work throughout the former Soviet republics , where we have been asked for that help , as it is in the rest of central and eastern Europe . |
15 | I have been involved for many years with the channel tunnel project as a whole and its associated terminal at King 's Cross . |
16 | Dogs , in particular , have been trained for this work — an extension of their natural instincts to protect the pack . |
17 | ‘ You have been selected for this commission because of your exceptional technical skills , and your great artistic ability . |
18 | The previous half-year figures have been adjusted for this change in presentation . |
19 | Various methods of analysis have been developed for such data . |
20 | Scotvec Modules have been developed for those pupils who have a pass at General level and not wish to do Higher . |
21 | The ideas that have been developed for this region can be applied to most turbulent flows adjacent to a wall : for example , to turbulent channel and pipe flow ( although not , for example , to a boundary layer close to separation ) . |
22 | Careful plans have been made for these people so that when the hospital eventually closes they will not find themselves on the streets . |
23 | Efforts have been made for some time to get this off the ground and a successful public meeting was held at Newtown at the end of April . |
24 | Coleraine secretary Freddie Monahan stressed however : ‘ No official 5 approaches have been made for either player though we are aware they are being watched . ’ |
25 | Essentially , there are four types of control which have been exercised for some period : first , the " White Paper " controls on pricing , investment and financial targets ; secondly , external financing limits ( EFLs ) imposed by the Treasury ; thirdly , efficiency audits by the Monopolies and Mergers Corn-mission ( MMC ) ; and fourthly , direct controls on management itself . |
26 | Certain immigrant communities have been documented for many years as having higher mental hospital admission rates . |
27 | If the package has changed and the DCs have been aborted for some reason , but you still wish to proceed with the change , raise new DCs , get agreement for the changes , activate the Dcs through your package , then resubmit the package for approval . |
28 | The sixteen paintings seem likely to remain with the Uffizi , where they have been stored for some time . |
29 | Interventions by schools to reduce smoking have been undertaken for many decades , although little attention has been given to assessing their effectiveness . |
30 | This last datum may be accompanied by one of the following letters : S = the company 's shares have been suspended , A = company has been acquired , L = company has been liquidated , e = non-voting shares have been enfranchised for some reason , and lastly F = the shares have been withdrawn from the official list for some other reason than those already mentioned . |