Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 2 | His toe-nails looked as if a knife would blunt on them and could not have been cut for months , possibly years . |
| 3 | If it was n't exactly political pessimism of the order of ‘ mourir pour Danzig ’ it must have been alarming for Americans to hear from High Commissioner Pignon 's diplomatic adviser of the feeling that French interests were not important enough to die for because the country was being given over to the Vietnamese and when the war was over French influence would have disappeared . |
| 4 | It is important to note , however , that the categories used in the Rolfe and Will lists may have been assigned for reasons of literary expediency , rather than as the result of rigorous classification . |
| 5 | It was a monumental folly , which could have been made for horror films . |
| 6 | North , carefully distracting Livingstone from the thought that hostages might have been ransomed for arms , gave him the Whole Picture . |
| 7 | Whatever the merits of these reasons , and not all of them carry complete conviction , it must surely be true that no government , given that the enormous and growing cost of higher education was coming very largely out of public funds , would have been prepared for provision to have been largely concentrated in the ‘ autonomous ’ university sector ? |
| 8 | It has no cellars in which material could have been stored for safety , and it is not known how much had been removed elsewhere . |
| 9 | He should have been done for murder . |
| 10 | Furthermore , gradation could equally lead to heavier sentences than might otherwise have been given for conduct which comes within the higher categories , although this could be regulated by appeal courts and sentencing guidelines . |
| 11 | This may in part be explained by one half of the reciprocity taking the form of labour services and trade in consumables ; a large proportion of the goods which may be considered of high value by reason of the distance over which the raw materials had been transported , and their resulting rarity , may have been given for services , gifts or payments for work , what may be termed institutional exchange . |
| 12 | Such a performance can only have been intended for entertainment in a programme of venationes and gladiatorial combats . |
| 13 | The recently written Piano Concerto in C , K.503 , may also have been intended for performance there , but none is recorded . |
| 14 | Much of this would have been intended for re-export , rather than directly for consumption , but as half of England 's total exports by this time were re-exports rather than domestic products the commercial community suffered enough of a loss to show why the English had to be far more concerned about command of the sea than any other country except the Netherlands , and also how fragile that command was before 1700 . |
| 15 | As Graham Crowe said ‘ If all the 710 technicians sold as well as Brian Miller , then £34.5 million extra business would have been generated for Pest Control ’ . |
| 16 | No data are available to show how long fluid persists in severe cases that would normally have been listed for surgery . |
| 17 | Something similar could have been said for Davout . |
| 18 | She may have been scarred for life , ’ she said . |
| 19 | She may have been scarred for life , ’ she said . |
| 20 | AS the Prince and Princess of Wales sat only a few feet apart in Seoul 's Presidential palace yesterday they could have been mistaken for strangers uncomfortably thrown together . |
| 21 | His tone had changed and now held an inflexion that could almost have been mistaken for tenderness . |
| 22 | Paradoxically , more could have been achieved for crofting in Lewis , on a permanent basis , by a regional policy for fisheries than by all the money being spent on agriculture through the IDP . |
| 23 | And topped up again to pay for the repair of the flat roof over the kitchen , and the man who had done the work should have been prosecuted for fraud . |
| 24 | It was held that there was a clear infringement of the Compaq trade mark , although it was accepted that it was arguable whether it should have been accepted for registration because of its phonetic similarity with " Compact " , an everyday word . |
| 25 | There is simply no way he would have been accepted for training in our Church — and that is perhaps a tragedy . |
| 26 | It could have been leaking for months . |
| 27 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 28 | It is neither composed of VC holders or aspirants nor of those who in earlier days would have been shot for cowardice . |
| 29 | It is possible that the ‘ villa ’ may have been planned for viticulture , with the use of steep valley sides for vine terraces ; however , no traces have been found . |
| 30 | His stillness made them hesitate ; he might have been watching for fish but the stream was hardly large enough for trout , only minnows or sticklebacks Libby pressed close to George , they stayed on the path watching . |