Example sentences of "[been] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time . |
| 2 | Upton won their first game since the opening day of the season when they routed Winnington Park for 64 the season 's lowest score with groundsman Alex Kegg taking 4–18 after Upton had been dismissed for a modest 128 . |
| 3 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 4 | The purpose of an audit mark or stamp on clients ' documents is twofold : it provides evidence that the document has been examined for a particular purpose ( which should be clear from the audit file ) ; and it helps to avoid the document 's being re-presented as support for a duplicate entry . |
| 5 | The main advantage of panels is that they provide feedback over a period of time , which increases the reliability of their responses compared with people who may have been stopped for a brief interview outside their local supermarket , for example . |
| 6 | Survivors thought their vehicles had been stopped for a security check ; the shock of what they 'd seen sent this young Palestinian into deep trauma . |
| 7 | Police violence against members of racial minorities became a national issue following the widespread broadcast on television of an amateur video showing white Los Angeles policemen brutally beating a black man who had been stopped for an alleged driving offence on March 3 . |
| 8 | More than 1,000 women have been recalled for a repeat smear test after it was revealed Practice Nurse Ina Gordon used a wooden spatula designed for holding down the tongue instead of special metal spatulas made for the vital tests . |
| 9 | Beefy has been recalled for the resumed Texaco Trophy series in a bid to give England a clean-sweep revenge for their World Cup final beating by Pakistan . |
| 10 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 11 | Their arrival had been delayed for a fortnight after Gen. Farah Aydid claimed on July 7 that an aircraft with UN markings bringing food aid had also carried from Nairobi military equipment and counterfeit money for his rival , Somalia 's transitional President , Ali Mahdi Mohammed . |
| 12 | The uncertainty was fuelled further when Larne boss Gary Irwin admitted that he thought the goal had been disallowed for a foul on goalkeeper Graeme McConnell . |
| 13 | A LIFEBOAT crew has been honoured for a daring rescue on the Cleveland coast . |
| 14 | The Redcar crew have already been honoured for a daring rescue earlier this year . |
| 15 | She had been intended for a respectable life . |
| 16 | As I crouched in the slit trench in the semi-darkness I could hear the odd British shell that had been intended for the Germans but had dropped short in the orchard explode with a terrific roar close at hand , causing a shower of dirt to fall from the roof of the trench . |
| 17 | The latter had been intended for the scrap-yard a short while earlier . |
| 18 | These directives could have been intended for the landscape gardeners , whose services were much in demand at this time and who used roses in their extensive planting schemes to provide unanticipated colour and fragrance for those taking a walk in wilderness greenery . |
| 19 | More important , he set about gathering the Wordsworths into the Quantock fold , hastening a visit which must in any case have been intended for the near future . |
| 20 | She hardly listened to Mr Lessing 's explanation ; the tutor was his cousin , who had been intended for the Church but proved to have divergent views from his bishop , and had resigned . |
| 21 | The Terrorist Squad believed it had been intended for the Lord Mayor 's Parade later that day . |
| 22 | The opposition , a diverse and mostly respectable group of people who have been clamouring for a bit of say in the new Kuwait , did not get even a token position . |
| 23 | Nobody left the queue : they were n't going to lose their place , they 'd been queueing for an hour . |
| 24 | The couple will begin their married life in Cyprus , where Paul , whose home is in Liverpool , has been posted for the next 18 months . |
| 25 | The cottage had not been inhabited for a while . |
| 26 | To compensate a bit for the loss , Greatest Hits from that long and illustrious lineage — ‘ Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ’ and its copains — have been gathered for the nonce in a smaller space elsewhere in the museum . |
| 27 | This has been recognized for a long time . |
| 28 | The gallery ‘ gelbe MUSIK ’ has been catering for the specialists and the curious for ten years and celebrates its anniversary this spring . |
| 29 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 30 | Mr Lindsey said that , from 5 January , S&P were offering a variable Tessa paying an initial 7.5% , against the fixed rate version at 5.875% , which is slightly higher than the average that S&P , as a group , has been forecasting for the financial year beginning in April 1993 . |