Example sentences of "[noun pl] has [be] [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 The unreliability of reported mergers has been argued for most strongly by Labov and his colleagues ( Labov , Yaeger and Steiner , 1972 ; Labov , 1975 etc. ) , and for inner-city Belfast it can be argued that meat is not really merged with mate , despite the fact that people believe that it is a merger .
2 Teesside Operations has been praised for entering the ‘ lion 's den ’ in its campaign to improve communications with the local community .
3 THE action of alkali metals and their oxides as promoters for many catalytic reactions has been known for nearly a century .
4 Well the distance is equal to a hundred miles an hour , times how many hours has been travelling for ?
5 Japan , for instance , has political support for such assistance , but the report points out that the body implementing bilateral aid programmes has been criticised for tying aid too closely to Japanese commercial interests , such as its high-technology products .
6 ‘ THIS drama about the decline of our coal mines has been running for at least 75 years .
7 Despite an agreement between Peabody and the Navajo Tribal Council , pollution from the mines has been blamed for contaminating local water supplies , and forcing Indians to leave their homes .
8 Conservative support in the larger cities has been declining for more than 25 years .
9 British Nuclear Fuels has been criticised for trying to conclude a deal with South Korea , a country which President Bush has named as increasing the proliferation risk .
10 FOR some time now , the Scottish Amateur Rowing Association 's executive has been seeking input for the updating of its Development Plan , and to serve this purpose , an all-day session of discussion groups has been arranged for Sunday , 21 March , at Strathclyde Park .
11 Based on a model which has been used profitably by the Ulster branch of the Irish Amateur Rowing Union , an all-day session of discussion groups has been arranged for Sunday , 21 March , at Strathclyde Park .
12 The homogeneity of the three groups has been reported for a wide variety of preoperative variables including age , sex , type of fluid , allergy , seasonal variation , radiographic determination of the size of the adenoids and postnasal space , and duration of preoperative loss of hearing .
13 A wide variety of methods has been developed for the preparation of such samples , which are described as matrix-isolated .
14 A similar effect of DNJ on integrin mediated cell adhesion to collagens has been described for several myoblast cell lines .
15 His report called Transforming the Dinosaurs has been produced for an independent think tank group called DEMOS .
16 The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes .
17 A MAN who has made 15 previous court appearances has been jailed for 15 months by a judge at Liverpool Crown Court .
18 The type of employment offered by manufacturing industry in rural areas has been questioned for a number of reasons .
19 It is most unlikely that either of these areas has been used for arable in the last 1500 years , and this is confirmed to some extent by field names recorded on the earliest maps ( of the early nineteenth century ) and in medieval documents .
20 The possibility of a connection between the disappearance of coronae and the onset of massive winds has been discussed for many years .
21 In addition a General Directory of Latin American Archives has been launched for which 30,000 archives will be put onto a database .
22 Some general practitioners will also benefit from schemes to improve substandard premises ; £170 million over six years has been promised for this ( but only £10 million for 1993–4 ) .
23 An additional £600m ( $A1.36bn ) over five years has been allocated for this .
24 The popularity of these films has been blamed for the emergence of Ninja gangs in Lusaka suburbs who wear black masks , carry home-made swords , iron bars , clubs and sticks which they use during burglaries and muggings .
25 Having established this knowledge a system of ideas has been formulated for intervening and hence preventing the disease or problem .
26 Due to afforestation a gradual stream of workers has been released for re-employment and this will continue .
27 The complex is ideal for disabled visitors : a chair-lift provides access to the look-out room , one of the flats has been adapted for disabled holidaymakers and a Batricar is available for trips on to the heath .
28 Meanwhile , a reward of two thousand pounds has been offered for information .
29 Working for patients has been criticised for failing to emphasise the importance of people and not being more specific about the need for personnel management .
30 A range of elegant techniques has been developed for characterising new genetic mutations — all the techniques rely on the generation by the polymerase chain reaction of large quantities of DNA fragments from normal and mutant alleles .
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