Example sentences of "have been [verb] for " in BNC.
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1 | Arrangements have been completed for this . |
2 | Two recent contracts of note which have been completed for Sweden are The Globe Hotel and The Park Hotel . |
3 | ARRANGEMENTS have been completed for the sale of the Adidas sporting goods company to Robert Louis-Dreyfus , the chief executive of Saatchi & Saatchi , and allied French investors , a French business paper reported yesterday . |
4 | Let us assume that agents have been flirting for a while with the use of the adaptive expectations mechanism but that , in the light of the persistent , systematic errors which this mechanism entails , they quickly abandon it . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | A further 40 percent of young people have been registered for jobs and training at careers offices for between two and six months . |
7 | Corpus availability is currently limited due to legal constraints although some have been cleared for academic research . |
8 | Some mangrove lands have been cleared for shrimp projects that never operated . |
9 | Much of the land has been used for squatter settlements for refugees from the fighting in Mozambique , while other parts have been cleared for banana plantations . |
10 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
11 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
12 | Artificial languages have been constructed for which it is possible to ascribe unique , non-zero probabilities to generalizations , but the languages are so restricted that they contain no universal generalizations . |
13 | High-bay systems have been constructed for palletized case storage , small-parts storage , long load storage and even for the storage of fully assembled motor cars ( with fuel on board ) . |
14 | I have found full cupboards and empty ones , children with books and children without ; schools and classrooms where the resources of the community have been mobilised , where well stocked classroom shops have been organised using packets , wrappers and tins collected by children , where great varieties of natural and man-made objects have been collected for children 's use in science and mathematics — and schools with none of these things . |
15 | This sounds simple enough , yet it does mean that the data subject ( to whom the information relates ) and the data user ( who puts it into a computer ) should each see the handling of the data in the same way , and this has not always been the case when data have been disclosed to third parties , or have been collected for one ostensible purpose and used for another . |
16 | The several price quotations which have been collected for each of the 350 items in the ‘ basket ’ must be averaged and then divided by the average price of that item in January 1985 . |
17 | Great local artists like Gilberto Gil have been trying for years to promote their country 's music , but ( as with the African-music boom ) it has taken the combination of an enthusiastic American super-star and cosmopolitan French audiences to really make the change . |
18 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
19 | Scientists have been trying for years to realize the potential of hydrogen , but they have been thwarted by the problem of storing the gas , which is highly explosive and needs to be kept in high-pressure containers . |
20 | The woman , who is married and lives in Formby , Sefton , said : ‘ I have been trying for a child for 19 years . |
21 | Murray said : ‘ We have been trying for months to sign the right sort of player to replace Joe Allon . |
22 | They are peaceful people , too , and many of them have been persecuted for that love of peace : Arthur Raistrick , Yorkshire Dalesman and the greatest living Dales historian , was imprisoned as a pacifist during the First World War , while in earlier times , the Quakers led by William Penn fled to America where they founded Pennsylvania , the capital city of which is Philadelphia , the city of brotherly love . |
23 | The narrators have been persecuted for standing up for their principles . |
24 | ( The reformulations have been italicised for the purpose of the present discussion ) . |
25 | Three meetings of the Carp Society 's East London and Essex region have been arranged for March 28 , April 25 and May 30 at the PTA club , Parr Road , East Ham . |
26 | Contracts have been arranged for the supply from other parts of BAe to enable the new company to operate autonomously . |
27 | The following CAA Safety Evenings have been arranged for the coming months : |
28 | Two follow-up meetings have been arranged for all young people interested in producing Mass tapes and the youth liturgy . |
29 | A variety of holidays in locations at home and abroad including guided tours have been arranged for them annually for many years . |
30 | Two trips — to the site of the new Severn Bridge and to the Western Mail offices in Cardiff — have been arranged for South West region members . |