Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once re-investigation becomes routine , the fact that a case has been referred for re-investigation should attract no more concern than the fact that a medical diagnosis has been subjected to the test of a second opinion . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | No one has yet argued that the attitudes of nineteenth-century working class wives ‘ modernised ’ , although such a case has been made for both young , single working class women and middle class wives . |
| 4 | Where there was evidence to show that such a decision had been taken for reasons of national security , this would be accepted to ‘ preclude judicial investigation of [ the ] particular … grievance ’ . |
| 5 | retain changes for which a decision has been deferred for inclusion on the agenda of a future Review Meeting |
| 6 | Nevertheless , a blow has been struck for the land-owning taxpayer , particularly those less well-off individuals who have not been able to defend themselves against the local district valuer 's increasingly aggressive commercial techniques . |
| 7 | A contract has been placed for the supply of this equipment to prisons that hold category A prisoners . |
| 8 | In the county courts the defendant 's position in costs can be protected by making a " Calderbank " offer which , provided a certificate has been applied for , will be effective for up to seven days after receipt of the certificate , by when it should be superseded by a payment in ( CCR Ord 11 , r10(3) ) . |
| 9 | A MAN of 28 who bit of the tip of another man 's nose during a fight has been jailed for 18 months . |
| 10 | The chairman of the action group has already met with Malcolm Rifkind , Secretary of State for Scotland , pamphlets have been issued to all houses in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains , another public meeting will be called and a plea has been made for wholehearted support by writing letters of objection . |
| 11 | A REVUE has been chosen for the summer production of Bunbury Good Companions . |
| 12 | A grant had been obtained for de-silting Swelling Hill Pond . |
| 13 | ( Some schools have been able to co-ordinate work with the National Film School , where a script has been written for the personalities in a group and then filmed on location , and this worked effectively . ) |
| 14 | The Conway Valley line as a result has been shut for days . |
| 15 | A man accused of dumping poisonous waste in a brook has been committed for Crown Court trial . |
| 16 | A woman who staged an IRA bomb hoax at an army barracks after being jilted by a soldier has been jailed for four and a half months . |
| 17 | Now a deal has been struck for the scientists to take 200 packs of Elagen , which contains refined , concentrated extracts of powdered eleutherococcus , back with them to Russia for use by cosmonauts at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Moscow . |
| 18 | This was so even when a child had been submitted for expert medical examination . |
| 19 | As the director of child services , Jim Harding , said : ‘ For abuse to take place in an institution where a child has been sent for protection must be one of the cruellest experiences you can dish out to any human being . ’ |
| 20 | He proposed a test , based on communication via teletypes with an unseen entity that was to be at first a human and then a computer , and if the human interlocutor , who had been told he was communicating on the subject of the differences between men and women , failed to notice that a machine had been substituted for the original human partner in the dialogue , then the machine was deemed to have passed the test , and Turing suggested we might as well speak of such a successful machine as thinking by polite convention , just as , ‘ instead of arguing continually … it is usual to have a polite convention that everybody thinks ’ . |
| 21 | Today though Her Majesty 's ambassador to Moscow visited Maxat the horse and announced that a home has been found for him at last in the Queen 's household Cavalry . |
| 22 | Here , after a campaign has been running for some time , a sample survey is used , in which questions are asked about the brands in the market in question : |
| 23 | A file has been found for a module which should be offline . |
| 24 | A file has been found for a module for which no magnetic copies should exist . |
| 25 | The obelisk was nearly completed , and a place had been prepared for it near the south pylon of the Temple of Ptah ; the barge which had brought it had long since returned to the quarries upriver . |
| 26 | A place had been set for one and I was given bread and a bowl of goulash . ’ |
| 27 | I am pleased to inform you that a place has been reserved for you on the above course . |
| 28 | Such a canon has been attacked for proposing ‘ political ’ rather than ‘ literary ’ values as its foundation . |
| 29 | Note that if a package has been marked for processing it is also read out since the file name chosen by the package at this level may be different from that chosen by the package at the next level . |
| 30 | Note that when a package has been submitted for QA approval , all changes are frozen for the given package . |