Example sentences of "been [adv] [vb pp] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judge McKinnon had been widely criticized for comments made during his hearing of a case of inciting racial hatred . |
| 2 | Although plastic pipe has been widely used for wastes and drains , until recently it has not been suitable for hot water . |
| 3 | Eventually they joined forces with other graduates sharing the same skewed sense of humour , Michael Palin , Terry Jones , Eric Idle and an American-born cartoonist and graphic artist , Terry Gilliam ; and on Sunday 5 October 1969 ( incongruously enough , in a scheduling slot which had always been rigorously reserved for programmes of a religious cast ) the very first episode of Monty Python 's Flying Circus was broadcast . |
| 4 | It is not true to say that a menstruating woman is unclean — she has a status of tameh , a word which has been wrongly translated for years as ‘ unclean ’ but which would be much better translated as ‘ impure ’ . |
| 5 | Nigeria 's rainforests have been so exploited for logs that the country now imports more hardwood than it exports . |
| 6 | The relatively cumbersome medium of microfilm has never presented the sort of opportunities now presented by digitisation , for bringing together collections of complementary material which have been physically separated for decades or even centuries . |
| 7 | Never has Carrick been more lost for words than when he was approached in the Headingley committee-room after close of play by Reg Kirk , a former Yorkshire chairman . |
| 8 | In addition to this ‘ before-and-after intervention ’ approach , there are other experimental designs which have been specially developed for teachers and therapists working in therapeutic settings . |
| 9 | This version of Central Point Backup has been specially designed for Windows users . |
| 10 | The water tank at the south end of Bewdley 's island platform has been temporarily removed for repairs . |
| 11 | Many public houses have been grossly neglected for years by their owners , yet the owners now demand that the tenants pay all the cost of putting the public houses into good order . |
| 12 | That their father 's death must be a relief to her elder sister was obvious , for Major O'Brien had been hopelessly paralysed for years , and during the last few months of his life had been unable to speak . |
| 13 | In fact it has been carefully managed for centuries and was indeed enclosed in the late seventeenth century . |
| 14 | In the fuel crisis of February 1947 , an already overstretched system had been brought to breaking point : electricity supplies to many users had been periodically interrupted for weeks on end and other supplies had been restricted , in the severest winter for more than a hundred years . |
| 15 | This form of dependence has been well documented for injectors . |
| 16 | It is normally found in magazines rather than in newspapers , where the far less subtle advertising feature has been well established for years . |
| 17 | Disknet uses a single computer as a ‘ gateway ’ PC which means that the machine has been previously tested for viruses , and also has scanner software and the Disknet check program installed . |
| 18 | Disknet uses a single computer as a ‘ gateway ’ PC which means that the machine has been previously tested for viruses , and also has scanner software and the Disknet check program installed . |
| 19 | This had previously been organized by the police but had not been seriously updated for years . |