Example sentences of "to have been [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They frequently appear to have been written for some private academic argument rather than to inform prospective students . |
| 2 | Mr Jones , 55 , said : ‘ I am very surprised to have been selected for this award , but extremely pleased . ’ |
| 3 | was pleasantly surprised even to have been selected for one of the 12 British pairs that went to Germany , and pleased to have come 80th from around 1000 pairs . |
| 4 | Curiously , most of the rules seem to have been conceived for print media : there are few pieces of TV and radio ‘ folklore ’ of this kind . |
| 5 | For example I found myself in a warehouse in Manhattan , where the New York Public Library keeps a lot of its records , and I discovered an enormous deposit of papers of , of an organisation which was actually very strongly against the minimum wage , which appeared not to have been touched for about the last — sixty years ? |
| 6 | One shuttle tanker , Polikon , was reported to have been hit for the fourth time and written off as a ‘ constructive total loss ’ ( CTL ) . |
| 7 | Although thousands of civilians have been reported extrajudicially executed or ‘ disappeared ’ in the emergency zones during the past decade , no members of the armed forces are known to have been convicted for their part in these violations . |
| 8 | A further 40 Sendero guerrillas were said to have been killed for the loss of three policemen dead and 20 wounded on Sept. 27 during an attack on a police post in Nuevo Progreso , San Martin department in the Upper Huallaga valley , the country 's major cocaine producing area , a Sendero stronghold . |
| 9 | This can be done by timing the sequence with a stop watch ( which can itself be proved to have been checked for accuracy if required ) . |
| 10 | I would love more people to be aware of the sometimes painfully beautiful music that Gál wrote , but ( and I do no injustice to his shade ) I would n't try to convince anyone of his stature on the basis of the music for mandolin and piano recorded here : it seems to have been composed for the sheer enjoyment of the players — well-tuned , amiable , and slightly unmemorable stuff . |
| 11 | They bought a Spanish villa rooted into the hillside at many levels , a house rumoured to have been built for Rudolph Valentino . |
| 12 | However , the attack , which was thought to have been planned for Kiechle 's 60th birthday party on March 3 in Bavaria , had not taken place and a further letter from the RAF stated that it had been called off due to a " mistake in co-ordination " . |
| 13 | Interior Minister Col. Manuel José Antonio was arrested on Aug. 11 for questioning in connection with an attempted coup uncovered on June 24 and said to have been planned for June 25 ( the 16th anniversary of Mozambique 's independence ) . |
| 14 | In the fourth century BC the Greek city of Cyzicus ( quite near the Bosporus ) made peculiarly archaic-looking coins of electrum , and these seem to have been intended for financing the corn trade between the Black Sea and Greece , as we can surmise from finds of them and from inscriptions . |
| 15 | They have been radiocarbon dated to about the 9th or 10th centuries AD and seem to have been intended for use in ceremonies associated with an important priest . |
| 16 | ‘ At the alleged places of detention , ’ Mr Ahtisaari said , ‘ the facilities were found to have been stripped of all valuable material and not to have been inhabited for several weeks at least . ’ |
| 17 | Oracle7 , Sybase , Ingres and Informix are said to have been tuned for the 1000 . |
| 18 | Amis 's Stanley and the Women drew blood , for a time , from feminist opinion , and is said to have been blocked for a period from entry into the United States ; and Salman Rushdie 's Satanic Verses ( 1988 ) forced its author , a Muslim-born Indian , into hiding in 1989 for its alleged blasphemy against the Prophet . |
| 19 | EXPERT OPINION Gary Hollyhead , head chef at Sutherlands Restaurant , prefers his beef to have been hung for three weeks , for maximum tenderness and the best flavour . |
| 20 | The company seems to have been forgiven for its oil spill in the Mersey estuary in 1989 ; it came third in ‘ community and environmental responsibility ’ , only one place down from last time . |
| 21 | To some extent the East Anglian lands seem to have been exploited for the benefit of the northern retinue , and the same attitude can be seen in the use of some of the de Vere lands to endow Gloucester 's new college at Middleham . |
| 22 | To some extent the East Anglian lands seem to have been exploited for the benefit of the northern retinue , and the same attitude can be seen in the use of some of the de Vere lands to endow Gloucester 's new college at Middleham . |
| 23 | Erm Leamington Spa ought to have been shot for their TESSA advertising . |
| 24 | Apart from the obvious point that it fails to produce uniformity its principal defect is that it leads to the application of a particular national law which is likely to have been devised for domestic transactions and may well be ill-suited to those which are international in character . |
| 25 | Amnesty International is also concerned that in other instances , during the operation some unarmed civilians were reportedly killed deliberately by Soviet and Azerbaydzhani law enforcement officials without warning or attempts to apprehend them , and that some people are said to have been detained for short periods solely on grounds of their ethnic origin . |
| 26 | Former Premier Li Gun Mo ( in 1986-88 — see p. 36937 ) and other disgraced officials were rumoured to have been detained for having opposed the planned succession of Kim Jong Il , the son of Kim Il Sung . |
| 27 | A much more radical proposal was under active consideration ( Home Office , 1999d ) shortly before the guide-lines were issued , though this appears to have been shelved for the time being . |
| 28 | ‘ I have heard , ’ said Henry slowly , ‘ that on occasion — by accident , usually — aconite has been known to have been mistaken for horseradish . ’ |
| 29 | The overall trade deficit in 1990 , according to preliminary figures , was US$4,730 million — the first overall deficit to have been recorded for five years . |
| 30 | There was some indication that the congress , originally thought to have been scheduled for May , had been postponed until June . |