Example sentences of "been [vb pp] for [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gen. V. Dovgan , a senior military-industrial administrator , had been dismissed and stripped of his rank after it had been revealed that he informally approved the sale of the tanks to ANT , and Deputy Aviation Industry Minister Anatoly Bratukhin had been dismissed for gross violation of arms export regulations . |
| 2 | In the sample design programme , the effect on sampling errors of clustering the sample — usually in wards or polling districts — has been examined for different types of questions and for different population subgroups . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It enabled Bush , who had been criticized for excessive prioritization of foreign policy , to demonstrate concern for and involvement in domestic affairs , and to demonstrate a commitment to civil rights at a time when Duke 's gubernatorial candidacy in Louisiana [ see above ] had embarrassed the Republican party . |
| 5 | It has been validated for early diagnosis of tuberculosis . |
| 6 | A spokesman said : ‘ Less than half of our 1.35m junior accounts — that is , for savers aged less than 16 — have been registered for gross payment of interest . |
| 7 | The new modules have been developed for two groups of students : those returning to S5 for a limited period of time , and those who intend to complete a full year 's programme of study in S5 or S6 . |
| 8 | The current poor economic climate has been blamed for total admissions of only 420,000 people , some 300,000 down on the 1988 total and the lowest figure since the show moved to the National Exhibition Centre from London in 1978 . |
| 9 | None of these lists , however , is wholly useful for the study of urban deaf populations , as all three have been designed for anthropological study of one sort or another , and include words such as spear and dung . |
| 10 | He reported a spawning in alkaline tapwater to which a teaspoon of salt had been added for each gallon of water . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A case has been made for brief admission of patients who may not be suffering from psychiatric disorders , but who are in a state of particularly severe crisis . |
| 13 | Although no one had been hanged in Ireland since 1954 and capital punishment had been abolished for most categories of murder in 1964 [ see p. 19227 ] , it had been nominally retained for those categories specified above . |
| 14 | Self expandable biliary stents have been used for palliative treatment of malignant biliary strictures . |
| 15 | It 's quite rare to get the equipment that 's been used for this type of activity . |
| 16 | Because income support was introduced at a time when there would otherwise have been an increase in supplementary benefits , and because transitional protection has been provided for some groups of claimants who have been transferred to income support , the Government claims that relatively few people suffered an actual cut in benefit in April 1988 . |
| 17 | On Dec. 27 it was announced that 53 students had been arrested for alleged membership of the Democratic Students League ( DSL ) . |
| 18 | The differential is even greater when pedestrian fatalities are singled out for analysis ; and significant class discrepancies have also been observed for specific types of non-fatal accident , such as burns and scalds . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We have occasionally been asked for more news of , and items of particular interest to , UCN and external graduates . |
| 21 | Consecutive sentences of three months had been passed for two offences of driving while disqualified , with a further six months consecutive for an excess alcohol offence . |
| 22 | In fact , since the legislation was introduced warrants have been issued for unspecified reasons of national security but unrelated to subversion , terrorism , and espionage ( Lloyd , 1987 ) . |
| 23 | Subjects will have been infected for varying lengths of time , which may affect these findings . |
| 24 | The way has been cleared for renewed logging of old-growth forest in Oregon , after a Bush administration committee voted to override the provisions of the Endangered Species Act on 13 tracts of federal land covering 1,700 acres in the Coos and Douglas counties of western Oregon . |
| 25 | And of a truth vile Epicurism and Sensuality will make the soul of man so degenerate and blinde , that he will not only be content to slide into brutish immorality , but please himself of this very opinion that he is a real Brute already , an Ape , Satyre , Baboon ; and that the best of men are no better , saving that civilising of them and industrious education has made them appear in a more refined shape , and long inculcate precepts have been mistaken for connate Principles of Honesty and Natural Knowledge , otherwise there be no indespensible grounds of Religion and Virtue , but what has hapned to be taken up by overruling Custome . |
| 26 | Most of the motility studies on irritable bowel syndrome patients have been conducted for brief periods of time in the very distal portions of the viscus . |
| 27 | Data on individual variability have been published for small numbers of patients and controls , and coefficients of variation have been 31–43% under study conditions . |