Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's only done half the course and already she has been picked out for this job . |
| 2 | Also , £192,000-worth of preference dividends have also been rolled up for future payment . |
| 3 | Similar studies have been carried out for other countries , although the methods vary , reflecting the differences in availability of data and in fiscal systems . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 6 | Vast areas of Rum have been fenced off for century-long experiment to re-create the natural woodland environment . |
| 7 | Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible . |
| 8 | Mrs Nicolson had n't been seen out for four months now . |
| 9 | Plans have been drawn up for commercial offices and a smaller centre for church events . |
| 10 | Several racecourses would like to stage more Sunday meetings but so far no fixtures ( apart from a point-to-point ) have been drawn up for next year . |
| 11 | The bed was made , but did n't seem to have been slept in for some time , although there was a folded pair of pyjamas under the pillow . |
| 12 | Land nearby had been bought up for 300 workers ' houses . |
| 13 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 14 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 15 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 16 | Stone and marble fixtures weighing 400 tonnes from a garden in Boston have been shipped over for this sale . |
| 17 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
| 18 | Q. My tank has been set up for five months now , and I do not seem to be able to achieve a good green algae growth . |
| 19 | A helpline has been set up for anxious parents . |
| 20 | Individual project boards have been set up for each area of market testing . |
| 21 | A telephone hotline , manned twenty four hours a day , has been set up for former pupils of a school where the head has been suspended and a governor arrested by police . |
| 22 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 23 | A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation . |
| 24 | The lessons are recorded so that the trainee 's performance can be reviewed and measured against criteria which have been set down for that skill . |
| 25 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |
| 26 | Standing at the window in the small front lounge , where a buffet had been laid out for those guests arriving late , or for people who were still hungry , she saw Feargal accompany Phena , and the man who had been her constant companion at the wedding , walk down the path . |
| 27 | A common problem in geographical information systems ( GIS ) , and one which has been known about for many years in the context of choropleth mapping , is that of producing maps from population data aggregated over selected arbitrary areal units . |
| 28 | Both the NRC and the SPG and its equivalents had been known about for some time . |
| 29 | His Disco Roadshow business , called Darlington Number One , has been hired out for several parties and functions in the Darlington area . |
| 30 | One manager felt the changes had been rushed through for political reasons , had overwhelmed staff and brought ‘ no major instant successes ’ . |