Example sentences of "[adv] been [vb pp] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The whole family are coming , it 's all been arranged for ages — and I 'm not there ! ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His hair , which had not been cut for weeks , fell in silky waves around his face . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | IR systems have not been designed for end-users and require the skills of an intermediary . |
| 7 | This little Hampshire market town had not been designed for crowds such as these , and everyone kept on getting in everyone else 's way . |
| 8 | " The cabinets have not been cleaned for years . " |
| 9 | She put her head into the next room , an untidy and empty bathroom which looked as though the washbasin had not been cleaned for months . |
| 10 | It was covered with climbing plants , and clearly had not been used for years . |
| 11 | The army itself seems unsure of this proposition , perhaps because it is waiting to see who is most likely to meet its wage bill : many soldiers have not been paid for months . |
| 12 | SIX weeks after the Braer disaster , Shetland farmed salmon may be starving to death because compensation has not been paid for losses , writes Auslan Cramb . |
| 13 | The windows had not been opened for years and had forgotten how it went . |
| 14 | The only other entrance was a small door to the left of the sanctuary but that was closed with a padlock , rusting with age , and obviously had not been opened for years . |
| 15 | I see Tunze systems where the Biogranules have not been changed for years , and even undergravel filters with less than one inch of gravel covering their surface . |
| 16 | The precedent has thus been set for countries to participate in certain areas of common European interest without accepting all EEC structures and policies in their entirety . |
| 17 | Provisional bookings have already been made for entertainers like Freddie Starr , Bob Monkhouse and Tammy Wynette to play the former Beehive Ballroom in McMullen Road . |
| 18 | ( 3 ) That on the taking of the said accounts and inquiry costs of and incidental to proceedings on an indemnity basis are not to be disallowed on the ground that an order has already been made for costs of and incidental to those proceedings to be taxed on a standard basis unless it should appear that in making the said order the court intended thereby to deprive the defendants of the right to add those costs or some part thereof to the mortgage security . |
| 19 | We were told , because of the shortage of paper , we were told only to use secondhand papers er paper that had already been used for letters or memos when writing to the Clerks ' Department and erm we erm used to get the grubbiest paper that we could and then you had to condense it and type it erm without too much space and erm that went over to the Clerks ' Department , then erm when it got over th oh sorry you had to trim off the edges erm so that there was no spare paper left around the memo so that er you know there was just this little bit of paper with the |
| 20 | RESERVATIONS have already been taken for houses at Longwood Park near Warrington and the show homes only open this month . |
| 21 | Guidelines for the documentation of machine-readable files have already been suggested for historians currently generating computerised transcripts of historical source materials , and the adaptation of these may prove to be very beneficial . |
| 22 | Aurorae have not just been mistaken for dragons . |
| 23 | It is not a rosy outlook for most of them , though : he estimates that only about three unsought artist have ever been selected for commissions . |
| 24 | However , such documents have usually been compiled for purposes other than research and the investigators have to glean from them what appears relevant to their study . |
| 25 | His life was saved by his cell mate , who has also been treated for burns , but is now back behind bars . |
| 26 | It had traditionally been used for stores and dressing . |
| 27 | But new safety measures have now been introduced for drivers and passengers . |
| 28 | Detainees have often been held for weeks or months without access to defence lawyers before being brought to trial on charges such as rebellion , illegal association and ‘ enemy propaganda ’ ( a charge brought against those accused of producing , distributing or possessing any information regarded as subversive by the authorities ) . |
| 29 | Many scrutinies , moreover , are not completed within the two-year time span , and departments have frequently been criticised for delays in implementation . |
| 30 | I 'm dying to try out my hairdressing skills and I 've got these two absolutely sumptuous dresses which have n't been worn for ages . |