Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Design Change ( DC ) has successfully been submitted for assessment by all interested users ; ie. all users who have a package containing any of the modules listed on the DC , managers of all modules listed on the DC and the DC submitter . |
| 2 | The books have mostly been notified for publication this week . |
| 3 | The fedora hat that adorned Allison 's head like a halo during Crystal Palace 's improbable run to the l976 FA Cup semi-finals has since been auctioned for charity . |
| 4 | The implication of moral blackmail in robbing patient services to pay nurses remained a ghost at the banquet for the media , and for many nurses , who had still to reconcile the jobs they had perhaps been doing for years with the management 's idea of their responsibilities , and the clinical grade to which they aspired . |
| 5 | If he had really only been looking for shelter and a place to doss down for the night , why look further than this ? |
| 6 | ‘ He 's only been working for Harry for a few weeks . |
| 7 | ABOVE The preparation of land for forestry can destroy even well-preserved archaeological sites , particularly on land which has only been used for pasture . |
| 8 | Since the Second World War , this has only been used for storage . |
| 9 | In the big front room the flags were as good as new — no wear at all — and Hannah told me it had only been used for funerals and pig-killings . |
| 10 | Although partial 16S sequences ( the first 700 bases ) are known for incompatibility bacteria from several insect species , nearly complete sequences have only been published for incompatibility bacteria of the mosquito Culex pipiens and wasps of the genus Nasonia . |
| 11 | Much of that research has , in turn , been inspired by an attempt , especially among American psychologists , to understand and predict ‘ giftedness ’ : as such , in seeking reasons for differences in creativity , their preference has naturally been to look for evidence of the latter 's association with excellence , superiority , and health rather than with maladjustment or psychological deviance . |
| 12 | The remaining vote was declared invalid due to a technicality , although it had apparently been cast for Jones . |
| 13 | The public spectacle of culture , the adoption of culture by the media , the standardisation of culture , the cultural discourse , cultural self-satisfaction , a slack cultural conformism , the recuperation of culture never has so much apparently been done for culture , never have the results ( another word that deserves some elaboration ) been so disappointing . |
| 14 | The shape and musculature of a dolphin do not alone account for its speed and swimming efficiency , and biologists have long been searching for features of the skin which may explain the mysteries of the dolphin 's swimming prowess . |
| 15 | Economists have long been calling for safety regulations to be subject to cost-benefit analysis . |
| 16 | A CABINET seat has long been mooted for Virginia Bottomley , who is unique in managing to elicit praise and admiration even from the die-hard male chauvinists in her party . |
| 17 | The NUWW and the LNA had long been campaigning for legislation to raise the age of consent to eighteen and to enforce more stringent penalties against procurers and brothel-keepers . |
| 18 | Electronic systems have long been used for data , but as increasing volumes of information and records are also created and stored electronically issues are raised about the management of this information . |
| 19 | Electronic systems have long been used for data , but as increasing volumes of information and records are also created and stored electronically issues are raised about the management of this information . |
| 20 | Oils extracted from soya beans , sunflowers , peanuts , rapeseed , palms , castor beans , eucalyptus , squash and coconut have all been tested for use as fuels and lubricating oils over recent years . |
| 21 | The whole family are coming , it 's all been arranged for ages — and I 'm not there ! ’ |
| 22 | Other sectors , such as oil refining and petrochemicals , have been pretty depressed so contractors used to serving those industries have all been looking for business in the same markets as ourselves . |
| 23 | The snow had obviously been falling for hours , probably while she was still watching The Blue Angel . |
| 24 | And yet the end of the Second World War was such a celebration of the defeat of the fascist enemy that there was a failure to grasp the fact that the universal Enemy had merely been rehearsing for Armageddon . |
| 25 | As for the hair which used to be trimmed by a top London stylist and had swung in a smooth shoulder-skimming bob , it had not been cut for months and was now bundled unceremoniously on to the top of her head . |
| 26 | His hair , which had not been cut for weeks , fell in silky waves around his face . |
| 27 | I refer to your recent application for the above position and regret to advise that you have not been selected for interview . |
| 28 | He built out of that illusion a political cause which stirred the British electorate as it had not been stirred for decades and which has left its imprint on the Conservative Party and on British trade policy down to the present . |
| 29 | The other thing to remember is that women who have sex with women may be at risk of HIV infection if they share needles or syringes to inject drugs , or use semen that has not been tested for HIV if they want to get pregnant through self-insemination . |
| 30 | Application has reportedly not been made for CAA approval for the kit for G-AYIH or for any other UK registered aircraft . |