Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | A further 40 percent of young people have been registered for jobs and training at careers offices for between two and six months . |
2 | I have found full cupboards and empty ones , children with books and children without ; schools and classrooms where the resources of the community have been mobilised , where well stocked classroom shops have been organised using packets , wrappers and tins collected by children , where great varieties of natural and man-made objects have been collected for children 's use in science and mathematics — and schools with none of these things . |
3 | As an example , specialised teaching courses have been prepared for pilots , air-traffic controllers , doctors , scientists , secretaries and businessmen . |
4 | After all , these islands have been steeped for centuries in everything from witchcraft to ancestor worship . |
5 | Must get some rose fertiliser you know too because erm I do n't suppose the original plants have been fed for generations , literally . |
6 | Other books have been championed for years by obsessed option-owners , like Saul Zaentz 's doomed production of Peter Matthiesen 's At Play In The Fields Of The Lord , and Cronenberg 's Naked Lunch , the latter understanding that cult novels ca n't usually be filmed at all . |
7 | How dare this blanc try to interfere with the way things have been done for centuries ? |
8 | But no new facilites have been built for children and some fear boredom will once more spawn the vandalism which blighted the original buildings . |
9 | We have been pestered for men to protect several houses , and as these people have such influence , we can not refuse . ’ |
10 | Once state pension ages have been equalised for men and women , this would become administratively more feasible , so there may well be a move in 1996 . |
11 | The development is being promoted by the City of Edinburgh District Council , although it has not yet progressed to the submission of a planning application on which I have been asked for comments by the District Councils Director of Planning . |
12 | Although , as he points out , ‘ it really is n't new at all , just a return to traditions of healing that have been accepted for millenniums ’ . |
13 | Many developments have been delayed for years pending completion of new or improvements to existing sewage works . |
14 | Other areas of South Wales have been blighted for years , while renewed threats are now being made to cut open parts of Clwyd 's countryside . |
15 | The Holgate school is a split-site Comprehensive in Hucknall , Nottinghamshire Information skills curricula have been developed for pupils throughout the school and are closely linked to the use of new technology . |
16 | However , special arrangements have been made for coaches bringing people to the Tattoo and your cooperation is sought to ensure that your drivers are fully conversant with the information given below . |
17 | There is greater awareness of the problems of excessive placental transfusion ( hyperbilirubinaemia , polycythaemia and hypervolaemia ) than of the hazards of hypovolaemia , but claims of reduced preterm mortality with delayed umbilical cord ligation have been made for years . |
18 | b ) Arrangements have been made for repairs to the footway between Nos 540 and 580 Lanark Road . |
19 | The ways in which intonation does this are very complex , and many suggestions have been made for ways of isolating different functions . |
20 | So far , bookings have been made for exhibitions well into 1992 . |
21 | At this stage you should explain what arrangements ( if any ) have been made for expenses . |
22 | People will be unable to reach their offices in St Mary Axe today , but arrangements have been made for police to escort staff to premises in adjoining streets . |
23 | Orders have been made for costs to be paid by the plaintiffs to the defendants with a direction that the costs be taxed on the standard basis , if not agreed . |
24 | Statutory rights to management control have been created for workers and enterprises have been given autonomy to plan production . |
25 | Tall black or white hats ( ‘ tiles ’ ) have been worn for matches ever since . |
26 | Since workwear , for want of any better term , is n't really new in this country at all ( American denim brands like Lee and Levi 's are hardly passing fads ) and since the more recent brand arrivals here have been worn for years in the US and Australia , hype accusations are a little misguided . |
27 | The French , it must be said , have been lost for centuries in wonderment at science . |
28 | The record should build upon those which have been maintained for pupils in key stages 1 and 2 . |
29 | Lift and drag have been calculated for tails spread to an apical angle of 120° . |
30 | Tropical waterlilies have been admired for generations due to their exquisite blooms and overall beauty . |