Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 2 | Punishment , by several indications swift and far-reaching , has been meted out for incompetence , not insubordination . |
| 3 | The expediter — ‘ Joy ’ — was the envoy of a client of mine : the Construction and Development Corporation of the Philippines ( CDCP ) , a local company my bank had been courting unsuccessfully for years . |
| 4 | A couple to note in the Sturt colours are Scintillas Crest and Scintillas Silk — who have been pencilled in for Thursday 's meeting . |
| 5 | A tour has been pencilled in for November but , if you ca n't wait , Sean 's management would like to remind you that there 's a video around called Sean Hughes — Live And Seriously Funny . |
| 6 | Commercial computer-aided design ( CAD ) programs have been developed specifically for garden design and work scheduling . |
| 7 | The concept of quality of life of older people , particularly in residential settings but also in the community , has been the subject of considerable research and academic interest ( e.g. Hughes , 1990 ) and has also been developed considerably for application in inspection and quality assurance procedures ( e.g. Sinclair and Gibb , 1990 ; DoH , 1989c ) . |
| 8 | During the Cienfuegos speech Castro confirmed that work on the Juraga nuclear power plant in Cienfuegos , the construction work on which was begun in 1972 and which was now 90 per cent complete at an estimated cost of US$1,000 million , had been halted indefinitely for lack of funds . |
| 9 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 10 | However you organise your checking routine , it is crucial to present written work which has been checked over for spelling . |
| 11 | And when she 's been confined there for days you sometimes have n't bothered with a towel . |
| 12 | We 've been cultivating both for centuries . |
| 13 | Such weaponry may have been designed principally for warfare and combat , yet the existence of wild animal bones on settlements , especially deer , points to hunting being a means of supplementing the diet ; yet what was used to bring down such game ? |
| 14 | The field artillery weapons with which the combatants entered the war in 1914 had been designed also for use in short-range battles . |
| 15 | It has been designed especially for students with a different educational background from those entering the degree programme . |
| 16 | This reverberation unit is based on a c.c.d. delay line that has been designed specifically for operation in reverberation circuits . |
| 17 | The Free Curl cordless styling Brush , Free Curl cordless styling Tong and Free Curl cordless combination Brush and Tong have been designed specifically for women on the move which makes them so easy to travel with . |
| 18 | Analyses have also been carried out for customers , such as Yorkshire Water plc . |
| 19 | More specialised sampling has also been carried out for gold and pathfinder elements ( Edmunds , personal communication October 1989 ) . |
| 20 | Routine Guthrie testing has been carried out for phenylketonuria since the mid-1970s and testing for hypothyroidism since the mid-'80s . |
| 21 | Cobol has been added specifically for Data General Corp AViiON , HP 9000/700 , IBM Corp RS/6000 and Sparcsystem users , and Fortran for RS/6000 users . |
| 22 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 23 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 24 | He 's been looking elsewhere for years . ’ |
| 25 | Mr Fitzpatrick had been looking forward for months to the holiday with his son , who attended business meetings in the US capital . |
| 26 | Mr Fitzpatrick had been looking forward for months to a holiday in the States with his son . |
| 27 | Yes , the hindquarter double-muscled trait is important and is the breed 's main attribute , but we 've been looking too for stock with good overall conformation , with loin and fleshing that we feel is vital to any successful terminal sire breed . |
| 28 | It is not the intention here to detail a course blueprint , partly because such prescriptiveness would stand in contradiction to the learner-centred tenet of primary practice , and partly because stimulating and informed models have been presented elsewhere for discussion ( Bullock , 1975 ; Hawkins , 1984 ; Sinclair , 1982 ) . |
| 29 | James Beggs , has been lobbying hard for money to build a fifth Shuttle-orbiter , and the academy 's assessment could help loosen the purse strings at the white House . |
| 30 | Cheshire 's chemical industry has been lobbying hard for cuts in electricity pricing . |