Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [conj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday police were still combing the area for any similar devices which may have been hidden and for further clues . |
| 2 | As they would tell the story , the USSR would long ago have been crushed but for these measures . |
| 3 | Perhaps he had been kidnapped or for some reason forced to adopt another identity , in which case he could be trusted to reappear , several reigns later , cover himself in glory and inherit the throne . |
| 4 | says explaining why he had come to earth Jesus told the Roman governor Pontius Pilate , will thus I 've been born and for this purpose I have come out of the world that I should bear witness to the truth , but what particular truth was Jesus sent to earth to make no man , first just about his heavenly father , he taught his followers to pray that his father name be hallowed or hell holy and he prayed , I have made your name manifest to the man you gave me , also he said I must declare the good news with the kingdom of God , because for this I was sent forth , so what truths did Jesus come to er , to tell ? |
| 5 | Excavation work has been suspended except for intensive investigation of the Casa degli Amanti Castati in the Insula of Menander . |
| 6 | By plotting the areal distribution of marine strata and making reasonable inferences from facies distributions about the location of former shorelines , it has been established that for long periods of time in the Phanerozoic , especially in the early Palaeozoic and late Cretaceous , the continents have been inundated by up to two thirds of the present area by epicontinental seas . |