Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] been [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first paragraph that effectively has been drafted for her give it to B T is likely to be a repeat of what she said about T G I and I think that will be it then so I do n't think that there is any large amount of work other than her work with T G I itself . |
| 2 | Mama was rehearsing , that was all ; but it should perhaps have been kept for some other time . |
| 3 | Having ignored her for forty minutes whilst they failed to answer questions about Amy to which she might know the answer , Theodora might perhaps have been forgiven for telling them nothing . |
| 4 | The government 's Countryside Commission argued that the licence should only have been renewed for a few years during a thorough review of military land requirements . |
| 5 | Such a performance can only have been intended for entertainment in a programme of venationes and gladiatorial combats . |
| 6 | Some of these diplomatic operations can only have been performed for the gratification of the Jews themselves . |
| 7 | Subject to planning permission , it could sensibly have been used for development and perhaps for a number of other purposes … |
| 8 | Second , the area was not fortunate enough to have been chosen for a government-supported demonstration project , despite the key issues of homelessness and health in the inner London areas served . |
| 9 | Mother General 's view was that enough had been done for the child already . |
| 10 | The analysis described above has been criticized for treating debt and taxation asymmetrically . |
| 11 | Joe is keen to emphasise that the upstream sales would not have been concluded for less than full value . |
| 12 | His toe-nails looked as if a knife would blunt on them and could not have been cut for months , possibly years . |
| 13 | Speaking after the disaster , however , junior Environment Minister Tony Baldry claimed that : " a discharge on such a large scale could not have been planned for " . |
| 14 | He may not have been prepared for what followed . |
| 15 | ‘ I had heard much about the Island , but could not have been prepared for the spectacle of some three hundred and eight square miles ’ says Val , ‘ I had five days in which to explore and photograph the unfamiliar panorama which stretched before me . ’ |
| 16 | The hostages could not have been held for ten minutes without Syrian permission . |
| 17 | The creature which should not have been came for her , clawhands jerking . |
| 18 | If the navvies had n't been there to help she 'd not have been found for days . ’ |
| 19 | This impression of " specialness " , of contingency , of the event 's occurrence being something which could not have been taken for granted , disappears in the sentence with -ing . |
| 20 | It is said that it could not have been used for any other purpose … |
| 21 | Where supervision orders to the probation service would normally have been made for the offence , we find that because of homelessness and unemployment , black youths tend to be remanded in custody , or given custodial sentences . |
| 22 | No data are available to show how long fluid persists in severe cases that would normally have been listed for surgery . |
| 23 | It is also guaranteeing mortgages at 1 per cent below the normal interest rate , for endowment or pension-linked policies , on several of the houses up for sale , an interesting and innovative service for would-be bidders ( mortgage surveys will already have been undertaken for these houses ) . |
| 24 | If it was , then the theatre score could just as easily have been copied for the first run as for the revival . |
| 25 | For example I found myself in a warehouse in Manhattan , where the New York Public Library keeps a lot of its records , and I discovered an enormous deposit of papers of , of an organisation which was actually very strongly against the minimum wage , which appeared not to have been touched for about the last — sixty years ? |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | He can count himself lucky not to have been blamed for the bounce by his political masters . |
| 28 | Jean-Paul Scarpitta , her ‘ cultural adviser ’ , meanwhile had been indicted for ‘ forgery and embezzlement of public funds ’ and only released from bail of FFr1.2 million after the second inventory . |
| 29 | Measurement of internal friction such as those referred to above have been made for numerous polymers , and relaxation spectra for commonly used materials are listed in detail in the book by McCrum , read & Williams ( 1967 ) and in Ferry 's book . |
| 30 | Matches againts Battyburn and Villa away have been scheduled for Sky . |