Example sentences of "[verb] been put [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems self-evident that war , and the authority of the military and security men , have rendered most of us mere passive spectators because we are powerless to change the course of the story ; but also because in the end the war , like national public life , has been put on for our benefit . |
| 2 | The lease of Barrington Court in Somerset has been put up for sale by the Trust 's tenant , Mr. Andrew Lyle , along with his family 's surrounding freehold farmland . |
| 3 | Book Bargains Ltd , the chain of 10 specialist remainder shops , has been put up for sale by its founder and managing director , Philip Weatherburn . |
| 4 | Number 47 , Nelson Square has been put up for sale , and I understand that a buyer is interested in the property , subject to a structural survey . |
| 5 | SCOTT LITHGOW , the last major shipyard on the lower Clyde , has been put up for sale by its owners , Trafalgar House , the London-based property and engineering group . |
| 6 | There is no point in ransacking the cellar for the finest bottled sunshine that has been put away for the special occasion . |
| 7 | The £100m West Midlands Metro project has been put back for at least a year after the Treasury imposed transport budget cuts . |
| 8 | You raise the possibility of a continuous loop presentation video : the idea is not a new one but has been put aside for the moment because of the high costs involved in making such an item . |
| 9 | Almost every word has been put in for a purpose and needs to be commented upon . |
| 10 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
| 11 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 12 | The birds and squirrels in my garden come for food as soon as they hear my whistle , even though the food may not yet have been put out for them . |
| 13 | Because private accommodation is usually paid a month at a time , as compared to a term in advance in halls of residence , it 's often tempting to lull oneself into a false sense of secure finances , spending money that should have been put aside for the rent . |
| 14 | In fact , you can use your Steamatic to tackle those tough and often unpleasant jobs that you may have been putting off for ages . |
| 15 | In Western Europe the idea of attack by columns in close formation seems to have been put forward for the first time by the Chevalier de Folard in his Nouvelles Découvertes sur la Guerre ( 1724 ) . |
| 16 | But what makes HP 's claims more convincing than most is the support from traditional IBM mainframe software suppliers , something HP is said to have been putting together for the last 18 months . |
| 17 | After a job which had taken up all of her energies , Elaine did n't realise how long she would need to do all the jobs she had been putting off for years . |
| 18 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
| 19 | Through the centuries about twenty-five houses had been built in Ploughman 's Lane , first of all for the minor gentry , the widows and kinsmen , for instance , of the lord of the manor ; in more recent times , equally large and widely spaced dwellings had been put up for the professional class . |
| 20 | The 77,000 acre Mar Lodge Estate , which contains remnants of the ancient Caledonian forest , had been put up for sale by its American owner , John Kluge , at an asking price of £10 million . |
| 21 | At Thirsk a lamb with a broken leg had been put up for sale , and transit offences to cattle and sheep rose from no convictions in 1990 to 15 last year . |
| 22 | Mr O'Malley said a decision had been put off for 48 hours to permit a special investigation of Mr Reynolds ' allegation by Irish High Court president Mr Justice Liam Hamilton . |
| 23 | The Mackie Memorial Library had been put together for just this purpose a hundred years before , and these were the very books being sold by Derbyshire library staff . |
| 24 | With the approaching end of war in 1918 coalition became more positive because the coalition now had to deal with the issues that had been put aside for the duration , and more controversial because this pushed some Unionists into outright opposition . |
| 25 | Bars that had been put there for their protection when the room had been a nursery for the four girls : Daisy , Ethel , Lily , Amy , the little daughters of Alfred Greenwood , founder of a chain of grocery shops serving the clothing trade of Leeds , in the West Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 26 | Another thing , perhaps , we should notice right at the very beginning is that Jesus did n't actually speak in pa , in in er , in chapters , and they 've lost , they 've been put in for our convenience , and chapter fifteen is not the beginning of a new incident Jesus had already been speaking to the people , he had been teaching them in chapter fourteen . |
| 27 | The reader 's time and money would be better spent reading that classic novel you have been putting off for years . |
| 28 | Five pubs worth seven hundred thousand pounds have been put up for auction by one of the big breweries . |
| 29 | Also , there are three sites that have been put up for public consultation by the Gipsy Working Party and that 's Rockhill Farm at Chipping Norton , the airfield at Chiltern near Burford , and Standlake . |
| 30 | Many and varied reasons have been put forward for this basic element of practice , but they can be summarized under three headings : ideological reasons ( the right of a person to decide for himself or the recognition of this as an existential reality ) , educational and developmental reasons ( participation as part of human growth and development , for the individual , the family , the group , the organization or the community ) , and political reasons ( participation as a means to enfranchisement and empowerment , an antidote to alienation ) ( Ross , 1960 ; Bernstein , 1960 ; Katan , 1980 ; Freedberg , 1989 ; Rothman , 1989 ) . |