Example sentences of "[been] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we had been in the land of constant daylight for several days , the sun had been hidden for much of the time by high cloud . |
| 2 | In recent years , the Shetland summer season has been tainted for many of us by the knowledge that thousands of our sea-birds have failed to raise any young . |
| 3 | Now er sure the programme has been delayed for all the reasons I I 've mentioned . |
| 4 | The plenum had been delayed for several months , allegedly because of divisions over economic policy between the central and provincial authorities . |
| 5 | Some of the consequences were outlined in a study released on the eve of the conference by Arthur Andersen Petroleum Services which claimed that 20 per cent of future UK projects had been delayed for more than a year by the cash flow situation and other uncertainties . |
| 6 | Since the rate of repayment is reviewed only once annually , quite often the effect of mortgage rate rises has been delayed for some months , allowing the borrower to prepare for the increased cost . |
| 7 | Though since to find an alternative word was n't going to alter matters at all by the look of it , Fabia began to wonder if perhaps Vendelin Gajdusek was coming back from Prague today to keep his appointment but had been delayed for some reason or another . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The need for regulatory change had been mooted for some time . |
| 10 | Laws to prohibit discrimination on the ground of disability and to advance equal opportunities for disabled Britons have been mooted for some time . |
| 11 | An attempt to remove Kevin Maxwell has been mooted for some time . |
| 12 | The toffee , too , had been intended for another . |
| 13 | The card had really been intended for those regularly bought by a mad old lady to be laid beside the bust of Karl Marx in his local cemetery . |
| 14 | Viking is way behind schedule : it had been intended for this quarter , but StorageTek said that based on the present status of the product and schedule estimates it expects IBM-compatible products based on Viking architecture to be available in the second half of 1994 . |
| 15 | That system had been intended for some time . |
| 16 | Sometimes this research was located in areas where the effects of human activity had been sustained for many centuries . |
| 17 | ‘ At the alleged places of detention , ’ Mr Ahtisaari said , ‘ the facilities were found to have been stripped of all valuable material and not to have been inhabited for several weeks at least . ’ |
| 18 | The aim is to check that sufficient information has been gathered for each variable to make statistics upon them valid . |
| 19 | The structure and organization of public services do not , at present , foster service developments which match the King 's Fund recommendations , and the need for an overhaul in the way services are organized has been recognized for some years . |
| 20 | The release of these chemicals following drainage has been recognized for some time , but researchers at the Australian national research organization ( CSIRO ) now offer an explanation of the cause and also point to the great risks involved in large-scale land reclamation projects . |
| 21 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 22 | Indications of Mr Mandela 's growing political stature in the eyes of the government have been accumulating for some time . |
| 23 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 24 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 25 | Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 26 | CPRW has evidence that the sale of holiday units as permanent residences is already beginning to happen where the temporary occupancy clause , which is customarily enforced on caravan and chalet sites , has been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 27 | This was the moment Lynch had been building for all his life . |
| 28 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 29 | Interventions by schools to reduce smoking have been undertaken for many decades , although little attention has been given to assessing their effectiveness . |
| 30 | Up-to-date valuations of such properties had not been undertaken for many years previously , partly because of business people 's complaints that any revaluations of commercial properties could inevitably lead to an increase in their total tax bill . |