Example sentences of "been [adj] for [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In areas with long nursery waiting lists it has been usual for governors to establish admission panels drawn from their own members . |
| 2 | This last aspect has yet to be fully developed but training agencies have been short-listed for courses scheduled for later this year . |
| 3 | Since that time , and first fully developed by the Radical wing of the Liberal Party , it has been normal for parties to fight elections on the basis of a manifesto of policy promises . |
| 4 | I 've been grateful for Jessie having my key because er I 've locked myself out one or two |
| 5 | It might have been possible for Britain to enforce Anglo-American nuclear collaboration by withholding ore stocks , but to have done so would have reduced American production of fissile material to the Soviets ' advantage . |
| 6 | In the eighteenth century it had still been possible for Turks to feel that the empire , inherently superior to the infidel states which threatened it , had no need to stoop to such devices ; but such an attitude was now no longer practicable . |
| 7 | Had he been willing for Otto to do what he did ? |
| 8 | Too often , I think , the referee is tempted to shift the goal-posts in reliance upon his own speculation about what it would have been sensible for Parliament to do if Parliament had thought of doing it . |
| 9 | He never kept a catalogue of his stock , so it had been easy for Cleo to pour out a generous measure from each flagon on the upper shelf in Wakelate 's workroom . |
| 10 | He had wanted a short Report , with strong emphasis on grammar , spelling and punctuation , which would have been easy for parents to read . |
| 11 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |
| 12 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 13 | It might have been easy for Celia to persuade herself that it would all make little difference to me . |
| 14 | For long before 1946 , it had been customary for Parliament to preserve an oversight of such central government delegated legislation by requiring that such legislation be laid before it in some form or another . |
| 15 | Yet they 'd been to Spain , Italy and Greece time after time , and surely it would have been natural for Isabelle to want to show off the country of her birth . |
| 16 | Mark himself states that it would have been remarkable for Jesus to have found fruit on the tree for it was not even the proper season for fruit . |
| 17 | It has been hard for Souness to stamp his authority in a similar way since he took over when Dalglishfatigued by the demands of the Anfield job departed 22 months ago . |
| 18 | Furthermore , it has been good for morale to have an ongoing project , the success of which has not been tied to the everyday ups and downs in the hurly-burly of school life . |
| 19 | It had long been traditional for offices to hold an annual dinner for staff in the winter and an outing or picnic in summer . |
| 20 | It might have been better for Butler to have set reason apart from the whole hierarchy of conscience , self love , benevolence , and particular passions and allotted it the role of ascribing different degrees of authority to each , that is , of saying how they ought to relate to each other mutually . |
| 21 | Clearly , the observations made by Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle , for example , would have been inconsequential for science had they remained Darwin 's private experiences . |
| 22 | Whilst with Tangye Ltd. he had been responsible for machinery used by the Saltburn , North Yorkshire cliff railway . |
| 23 | History , as we have mentioned , has been kind : the country has staved off invasion by its enemies , and the resources have been available for government to make and meet commitments in response to changing demands and expectations . |
| 24 | Any management training that has been available for ryokan has been almost entirely ‘ in house ’ up to now , although the whole area of hotel management training is being rethought in Japan . |
| 25 | Secondly , during the 1980s it has been common for firms to make ‘ underwriting losses ’ . |
| 26 | Although it had been common for surgeons to expect suppuration of the wound as an inevitable concomitant of amputation , Alanson demonstrated that by these methods it was possible for these wounds to heal ‘ by the first intention ’ , that is , without significant infection . |
| 27 | Five others who had been eligible for parole following the first trial were now imprisoned . |
| 28 | It had n't been difficult for Bill to accede to his wife 's nagging to give the girl a break . |
| 29 | There are many reasons why it has been difficult for researchers to form links with universities , he says , with some not even sure that particular departments would survive investigations into the competence and integrity of the professors . |
| 30 | That it may have been difficult for members to attend area sessions , should not rule out the possibility of encouraging collaboration among groups of local boards . |