Example sentences of "been [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gen. V. Dovgan , a senior military-industrial administrator , had been dismissed and stripped of his rank after it had been revealed that he informally approved the sale of the tanks to ANT , and Deputy Aviation Industry Minister Anatoly Bratukhin had been dismissed for gross violation of arms export regulations . |
| 2 | Long service awards for trio of Terriers THREE part-time soldiers with nearly 70 years in uniform between them have been honoured for long service . |
| 3 | These settings must have been intended for private use since Calvin objected to polyphony in church , but when the Lutherans adopted them , using Ambrosius Lobwasser 's translation of Marot-de Beze ( Leipzig , 1573 ) , their congregations undoubtedly sang the tunes . |
| 4 | ( b ) The property must have been intended for private use , occupation or consumption . |
| 5 | Farmyard , horse , cow , pig , sheep , goat , poultry and similar ‘ raw ’ manures are all very variable because they must depend upon the food intake of the animals concerned , and the age of the manure — the time it has been stacked for nitrogenous urine to have drained out or been decomposed . |
| 6 | Sheriff Carl Peed of Virginia in America , said the un-named officer was the first woman to be been sacked for sexual harassment . |
| 7 | A second Gloucestershire social worker has been sacked for smoking cannabis while in charge of a group of youngsters on holiday in Devon . |
| 8 | Mrs Jonker , of Southport , said Miss Owen had been sacked for gross misconduct after written and verbal warnings . |
| 9 | Checking through her notes , the doctor saw that she had been treated for vaginal thrush on several occasions . |
| 10 | He had never been treated for mental illness , and Delroy was still alive in Jamaica . |
| 11 | The pond has once been treated for White Spot , which occurred on six newly-purchased fish , but no other chemicals have been necessary . |
| 12 | He complained that his design had been criticized for deficient lighting but he had shown the Committee that his windows were larger than those in sixteen or seventeen well-known classical buildings in London . |
| 13 | It enabled Bush , who had been criticized for excessive prioritization of foreign policy , to demonstrate concern for and involvement in domestic affairs , and to demonstrate a commitment to civil rights at a time when Duke 's gubernatorial candidacy in Louisiana [ see above ] had embarrassed the Republican party . |
| 14 | It has been validated for early diagnosis of tuberculosis . |
| 15 | A spokesman said : ‘ Less than half of our 1.35m junior accounts — that is , for savers aged less than 16 — have been registered for gross payment of interest . |
| 16 | More complex techniques have been developed for approximate string matching , allowing for possible spelling or recognition errors in the input word ( Hall and Dowling , 1980 ; Kashyap and Oommen , 1984 ) . |
| 17 | The perspector comes complete with full instructions for use and has been developed for fine art use . |
| 18 | We have also not mentioned the many different styles of analysis which have been developed for special parameter ranges . |
| 19 | The inquest heard that Leonie had been seen regularly by her GP and had been referred for psychiatric treatment . |
| 20 | Although in practice this means that some patients with chronic stable renal failure would have been referred for rapid investigation and diagnosis , we believe that this is preferable to taking a lower cut-off for carbamylated haemoglobin , such as 125 g VH/g Hb which would reduce sensitivity to 80% but increase specificity to 75% , since this would exclude some patients with a potentially reversible element to their renal failure that may not be so readily reversible if investigation and appropriate management were delayed . |
| 21 | To date , $84 million has been designated for anti-pollution work , but another $99 million is still needed . |
| 22 | Originally , some 424 acres ( 170 hectares ) of land in Cramlington had been designated for industrial development . |
| 23 | By June 17 the police chief responsible for the Tehran section of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution ( Pasdaran ) force announced that special squads had been formed for rapid mobilization as necessary to control urban unrest . |
| 24 | Furthermore , from a banker 's standpoint a bill that indicates that the merchandise has been ‘ shipped ’ or placed ‘ on board ’ is preferable to one which merely states that it has been received for future shipment . |
| 25 | Between a third and a half of all short-term in-patient beds are occupied by people with nowhere suitable to go , and it is not uncommon for patients to stay in an acute hospital bed for one or two years when they should have been discharged for continued treatment in a more appropriate domestic environment within three months of their admission . |
| 26 | Prince Charles has denounced architects for defacing British cities ; Margaret Thatcher 's governments have challenged the monopolies enjoyed by opticians and the legal profession ; planners have been condemned for producing urban chaos ; teachers have been attacked for crushing originality and stifling creativity in their pupils ; and lawyers have been accused of mystifying the legal system to the point where the layman finds it largely unintelligible . |
| 27 | Reindeer in the area now number around 160,000 , and have been blamed for widespread erosion as a result of over-grazing . |
| 28 | Several methods have been reported for isolating plasmid DNA for sequencing , for example alkaline lysis ( 1 ) and boiling ( 2 ) . |
| 29 | In contrast with what has been reported for cervical cancer patients , the lifetime number of sexual partners has not been found of significant , independent importance in the few case-control studies of anal cancer published so far . |
| 30 | Coun. Grant said he and Colburn parish council had been pressing for improved pedestrian safety at this point . |