Example sentences of "been [verb] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Up to this time , Leith had not been considered suitable for some of the larger excursion steamers .
2 Thirteen patients were referred as they had been considered unsuitable for conventional cholecystectomy on account of various coexistent medical diseases ( complex group , table I ) , and 12 patients were referred as they had requested minimally invasive treatment for their gall bladder disease or specifically wished their gall bladder to be preserved ( non-complex group , table II ) .
3 Even in these circumstances project support would still in all cases be cheaper than hospital care , and in four cases cheaper than residential care ( and only a proportion of these clients would have been considered eligible for residential care ) .
4 Briefly , it stated that sixty-six coupons had been considered adequate for normal use .
5 £50,000 has been made available for such upgrading work in the 1992/93 Capital Budget .
6 Members in developing countries should note that additional funds have been made available for 1993 by the Society 's International Committee , to provide grants for successful applicants from such countries .
7 At the time of writing , the 1881 census is the latest to have been made available for public consultation because of the restriction imposed by the 100 years rule .
8 Even the small river Slea had been made navigable for light craft and Sleaford had benefited from ‘ a cheap and easy transit for corn , coal , timber , stone , lime and other merchandise , to and from Boston , Lincoln and other places ’ .
9 The farmers from this village own land in the Buffer Zone that has been lying fallow for fourteen years , but which is now being opened up .
10 ‘ But it 's a lot of money for something which has been lying dead for twelve years . ’
11 It 's been going ongoing for eighteen months two years change it
12 Until about 20 years ago the citadel still served as barracks and prison , and seems to have been thought suitable for confining revolutionaries .
13 It 's the first time they 've been to Britain , even though some have been teaching English for twenty years ; they 're staying at the Oxford House School of English , and will also visit the Oxford University Press as the trip has been made possible by an East German publishing house .
14 I tried to make my excuse sound plausible , but I fear I did hurt him ; he had been pronounced unfit for military service and he was lonely and smarting at his exclusion from the experience of his peers .
15 In an era in which prevailing political opinion has opposed increases in legislation , most of the other areas have not been found appropriate for legislative action .
16 Incubation for 15 min at 37-C in 25 mg/ml trypsin and 10 mg/ml EDTA in Ca2 + -free M2 + 6 mg/ml BSA followed by extensive pipetting using a flame-polished micropipette has been found satisfactory for late 16-cell embryos and early blastocysts ( 13,25 ) .
17 Rule 5 strikes a note familiar to all Sunday School teachers and Superintendents : ‘ Scholars who shall have been marked absent for twelve Sabbaths of the year shall not be entitled to be present at the Annual Festival Excursion .
18 An emergency bridging loan to the value of US$247,500,000 , granted by the Japan , Mexico , Spain , Taiwan , Venezuela and the USA , in June , restored multilateral lines of credit cut off since November 1989 , when the previous government had been declared ineligible for further assistance by the IMF [ see p. 37039 ] .
19 One family tea-time , when Auntie had been sitting silent for some time , she said : " It 's lucky there 's never anyone left in those offices at night . "
20 The shop had been standing empty for some time , and needed a great deal of work .
21 Even the gaping hole left by de Bonneval 's precipitate retreat on Belleville Ridge had been plugged before the over-cautious Germans could exploit it — although it had been left open for twelve hours .
22 He rightly points out that — apart from Brent , which has no overall control , and Tower Hamlets , which is controlled by the Liberal Democrats — the 10 authorities with the highest percentage of empties in their stock are Labour controlled , and about 20,000 properties have been left empty for more than a year .
23 When the discharges first started , their levels were said to have been kept high for two years ‘ as part of an organized and deliberate scientific experiment ’ .
24 In the most recent presidential elections , in October 1990 , Houphouët-Boigny , who had previously been elected unopposed for six terms , was unsuccessfully challenged by an opposition party candidate and won a seventh term [ see p. 37767 ] .
25 People living near a rubbish tip which has been burning unchecked for six weeks fear their health is at risk .
26 He had been feeling cold for some time .
27 This same invincible figure has been held responsible for some blunder , or has for some other reason fallen out of favour with his employers , leaves the house where he came to fame and is never heard of again .
28 The prisoners have been held incommunicado for eighteen years .
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