Example sentences of "been [verb] for [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though since to find an alternative word was n't going to alter matters at all by the look of it , Fabia began to wonder if perhaps Vendelin Gajdusek was coming back from Prague today to keep his appointment but had been delayed for some reason or another . |
| 2 | These settings must have been intended for private use since Calvin objected to polyphony in church , but when the Lutherans adopted them , using Ambrosius Lobwasser 's translation of Marot-de Beze ( Leipzig , 1573 ) , their congregations undoubtedly sang the tunes . |
| 3 | ‘ We will want to know if the warning lights had only been flashing for 10 seconds and not 30 . ’ |
| 4 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 5 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 6 | Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones . |
| 7 | A second Gloucestershire social worker has been sacked for smoking cannabis while in charge of a group of youngsters on holiday in Devon . |
| 8 | Mrs Jonker , of Southport , said Miss Owen had been sacked for gross misconduct after written and verbal warnings . |
| 9 | He complained that his design had been criticized for deficient lighting but he had shown the Committee that his windows were larger than those in sixteen or seventeen well-known classical buildings in London . |
| 10 | The accident records at these schools have been examined in considerable detail by the Departments of Highways and Education and the Police and four areas have been highlighted for further action and detailed investigation . |
| 11 | During June and early July full day HS&E training programmes have been arranged for senior managers and divisional coordinators which will form the basis for communication within each company . |
| 12 | Interferon has been given for 24 weeks or longer in a few , mainly Mediterranean , studies ( response rates 26% to 70% ) . |
| 13 | This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change . |
| 14 | Although in practice this means that some patients with chronic stable renal failure would have been referred for rapid investigation and diagnosis , we believe that this is preferable to taking a lower cut-off for carbamylated haemoglobin , such as 125 g VH/g Hb which would reduce sensitivity to 80% but increase specificity to 75% , since this would exclude some patients with a potentially reversible element to their renal failure that may not be so readily reversible if investigation and appropriate management were delayed . |
| 15 | On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it . |
| 16 | The London General Omnibus Company had been experimenting for some years and , in 1910 introduced to the streets of London , their ‘ B ’ type , petrol engined , double-decker , opened top buses . |
| 17 | By June 17 the police chief responsible for the Tehran section of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution ( Pasdaran ) force announced that special squads had been formed for rapid mobilization as necessary to control urban unrest . |
| 18 | The department ‘ s syllabus has not been revised for five years and perhaps is ready for a revision . |
| 19 | The remedies have been grouped for easier comparison and so do not appear alphabetically . |
| 20 | Prince Charles has denounced architects for defacing British cities ; Margaret Thatcher 's governments have challenged the monopolies enjoyed by opticians and the legal profession ; planners have been condemned for producing urban chaos ; teachers have been attacked for crushing originality and stifling creativity in their pupils ; and lawyers have been accused of mystifying the legal system to the point where the layman finds it largely unintelligible . |
| 21 | The money , under the EC 's Rechar programme , has been frozen for 18 months while the political dispute raged on . |
| 22 | Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets . |
| 23 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 24 | Does he accept in particular that there is a problem involving students from Northern Ireland who have attended English universities and been recommended for further degrees and second awards , but are turned down because they are from Northern Ireland ? |
| 25 | Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas . |
| 26 | This format of radio and newspaper features has also been considered for Gaelic Literacy and for a horticulture course , with the materials to be printed by offset-litho . |
| 27 | It has been occurring for many years and has been embodied in legislation such as the Housing Acts of 1935 and 1957 , although numbers of sales have fluctuated considerably according to the political complexions of the government of the day . |
| 28 | So I should n't think he 's been driving for some time and |
| 29 | The first generation of Compton FELs ( 1975–85 ) was built around available electron accelerators , most of which had been designed for nuclear physics and were therefore not optimised as FEL injectors . |
| 30 | Their response has been to aim for legislative repeal or reform . |