Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 2 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 3 | These patients had been treated earlier for pernicious anaemia in the same hospital between 1972 and 1985 . |
| 4 | Briefings have been developed exclusively for senior management ultimately responsible for the design , development , marketing and selling of IT-based products and systems . |
| 5 | It was as large a set as had been developed earlier for general use , except for the London area ( where a few larger sets had been installed in the 1930s and some larger sets of somewhat antiquated design were also completed by the BEA in its early years ) , There were , however , doubts about the flexibility in start-up and shut-down times for the new 60MW and other new designs , and a fortiori about more advanced designs . |
| 6 | The Primary Enterprise Pack — This support pack has been developed especially for primary school teachers by the Polytechnic of North London . |
| 7 | The British Standard BS 6652 for child resistance is granted to specific combinations of bottle and cap and has been given only for some makes of closures on BS 1679 bottles , which are the ones we use in this hospital . |
| 8 | She had assumed , when she was told that Mills ' murder had been checked thoroughly for any spying connections , that the enquiry had at least had the semblance of efficiency , if not diligence . |
| 9 | Hardly a fish has been caught here for three weeks but the birds had had roach and dace up to 8 oz . |
| 10 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 11 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She 's only done half the course and already she has been picked out for this job . |
| 14 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 15 | Also , £192,000-worth of preference dividends have also been rolled up for future payment . |
| 16 | The main service on offer is the Schwab One International account which has been designed especially for international investors . |
| 17 | Where TVEI is designed to be only a part of a pupil 's curriculum in the 14–18 age range , the CPVE has , in contrast , been designed explicitly for that section of the pupil population for whom A-levels are inappropriate , but who wish to achieve some further , more vocationally relevant qualification at school . |
| 18 | Where discovery methods were applied in schools which had been designed specifically for child-centred learning , the change was even more apparent . |
| 19 | Similar studies have been carried out for other countries , although the methods vary , reflecting the differences in availability of data and in fiscal systems . |
| 20 | This policy has been carried out for some time by the OECD countries , Todorovic claimed , except that there the figure is between 4 and 6 per cent . |
| 21 | Several new instructions have been added specifically for superscalar Sparc implementations . |
| 22 | Proteon 's announcement that it is splitting its business into two divisions ( one for adaptor boards and wiring centres ; the other for internetworking and intelligent hub systems ) is in line with what has been happening internally for some time , says Swan . |
| 23 | Written application had been made in advance , and , except for four theses on loan , all had been collected together for this study either within the thesis area or in the thesis collection area of the Stack , to which access was permitted on this occasion . |
| 24 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 25 | Obviously Stirling had been lobbying hard for new blood . |
| 26 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 27 | Vast areas of Rum have been fenced off for century-long experiment to re-create the natural woodland environment . |
| 28 | I expect that the Minister can reassure him that an environmental impact assessment can not have been made properly for that incinerator yet , because an application does not yet appear to have been made . |
| 29 | It was believed that the treaty had been made simply for private gain , and this view was given substance by Isabella 's appropriation of much of the £20,000 payment from Bruce . |
| 30 | Adjustment has been made throughout for intra-industry bulk Scotch Whisky sales . |