Example sentences of "been [verb] [to-vb] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roman hair had been plaited to make hair for these gods . |
| 2 | He said 19 people have been committed to stand trial for various offences . |
| 3 | This degree course has been designed to provide opportunities for advanced study in key areas of Spanish , Spanish-American and Portuguese literature and culture . |
| 4 | The event has been organised to raise money for new equipment and starts at 7.30pm in the community centre . |
| 5 | Only in the last few years have real efforts been made to equalize provision for different groups of the disabled and there is still a long way to go before we can claim to have adequate social security in this area . |
| 6 | The centre has been opened to provide facilities for third parties to validate and convert their software for a number of different multivendor systems , including 27 types of workstation — DS/90 series , the S Family bought OEM from Sun Microsystems Inc , Fujitsu 's proprietary A series , the FM G series personal computers , as well as Hewlett-Packard Co Apollo , IBM RS/6000 , and Sony News , a number of different personal computers including Apple Computer Inc Macintosh and NEC Corp machines , and various local and wide area network software . |
| 7 | Delaney had been told to hold Titron for forty-eight hours . |
| 8 | This has now been demolished to make way for new houses . |
| 9 | It may well have been used to make bows for local archers who went off to fight in the battle of Agincourt . |
| 10 | Mr Kingsley Low , general secretary of the British Beekeepers ' Association , said : ‘ We have been expecting to find varroa for some time as it is so widespread on the Continent . |
| 11 | Company managers have been asked to provide support for smoking employees who may find the new policy difficult to follow , and if required , staff will be offered counselling to help them give up . |
| 12 | The contract made no mention of this , but there was evidence that , in practice , he had been allowed to have petrol for private use . |
| 13 | According to analysts , Souto had been forced to take responsibility for recent revelations that several high-ranking officers were deeply implicated in a vast network dealing in stolen cars from Brazil and Argentina , most of which were being passed on for sale in Bolivia . |
| 14 | One corner of the barn had already been cleared to make room for two kitchen chairs placed facing each other , with an old tea-chest in between . |
| 15 | I 've been trying to spot room for that |
| 16 | In the 1970s they had been required to obtain land for future projects , and they could hardly have been expected ? sell at such severely-depressed prices . |
| 17 | Multidisciplinary forums have been established to coordinate work for vulnerable elderly people in certain areas ( Burton and Dempsey , 1988 ) . |