Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This woman has been prosecuted four times for failing tio send her daughter to school . |
| 2 | The American , considered one of the most sympathetic of riders , has been penalised four times for careless riding since arriving here in 1979 . |
| 3 | Senator Bob Packwood faces a Senate Ethics Committee over allegations that he has been fondling female aides for years . |
| 4 | SCIAF has been supporting income-generation schemes for AIDS sufferers in Uganda as well as training and counselling , and it is expected that demands for assistance with AlDS-related projects will increase substantially in the next few years . |
| 5 | When the product selection has been made some options for managing records may have been made impossible by the operating environment or application software . |
| 6 | C&P has been spreading environmental messages for many years in many ways . |
| 7 | Many of the ‘ social ’ or non-commercial objectives imposed on the railways by the state remain unacknowledged ; they are not incorporated into calculations of state financial compensation and state control has thus been weakened since railway management has been given reasonable pretexts for failing to meet targets . |
| 8 | The current head of state , President Omar Bongo , succeeded to the Presidency in 1967 on the death of Gabon 's first President , Léon M'Ba , and has been re-elected three times for successive seven-year terms , most recently in November 1986 [ see p. 35047 ] . |
| 9 | Tony Farrow has been building one-off yachts for 20 years and is well known for the trimaran Colt Cars GB , Geoff Panell 's Admiral 's Cup triallist Itzanotherpurla re-named Red Stripe and more recently used by the RAF as a test bench under the name of Oracle Arrow in preparation for this year 's Admiral 's Cup . |
| 10 | Colchester and North East Essex Headway , which is affiliated to the National Head Injuries Association , has been seeking larger premises for some time . |
| 11 | A man whose family has been importing American jukeboxes for generations is about to turn the tide and start exporting his own design to the States . |
| 12 | Yet Iraq has been acquiring German weapons for years and Germany is now pledging , for the umpteenth time , finally to block the holes in its arms-export controls . |
| 13 | However , the Treasury which in the past several weeks has been preparing economic forecasts for inclusion in the November autumn statement seems almost certain to revise down its estimates for economic growth next year . |
| 14 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 15 | The corporation has been fined 25 times for soil contamination at its Florida plant . |
| 16 | Essentially their contribution has been to provide co-operative networks for the exchange of teaching material , experience and ideas . |
| 17 | I mean , you know Louise , she erm , was two pounds overdrawn , erm , for about a day , she was sent a letter to say that she 'd been charged twenty pounds for the letter , |
| 18 | As might be expected , policy rules of quite formidable complexity have been developed in the rational expectations literature , the best known of these being that proposed by Barro ( 1977 ) in which he attempts to model the process by which the growth in the money supply is determined and , on the basis of the prediction of what the money supply should have been given known values for its determining variables , to derive a time series for ‘ anticipated ’ changes in the money supply . |
| 19 | ‘ If he was n't a successful boxer , Mo would probably have been doing ten years for something or other now , ’ reckoned Tony Burns , Hope 's former coach from the Repton club . |
| 20 | And the mighty Red River , having been dammed six times for hydro-power , was actually the motionless mud-coloured Town Lake in the middle of Austin , the State Capital of Texas . |
| 21 | To be eligible for the study women had to be white , British , married , aged 25–39 years , and to have been taking oral contraceptives for at least five months , or using a diaphragm or intrauterine device for at least five months without previous exposure to oral contraceptives . |
| 22 | The others acknowledged us cheerily , clearly relieved to have been allowed 30 seconds for a sit-down . |
| 23 | Mitra attacked a secret visit by Ramos to Switzerland in mid-February , hinting that Ramos had been seeking foreign funds for his campaign . |
| 24 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 25 | For Carolina in Brazil the non-controversial fiction film was likewise the only option left if she wanted to go on working at all : she had been jailed several times for the making of political films . |
| 26 | Belinda nodded , knowing by this time that Faye had been hospitalised several times for keto-acidosis and other diabetes-related problems brought on largely by her former wildly fluctuating blood-sugar levels . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , the corporate-finance deals that had been generating big bucks for Wall Street 's investment bankers were starting to dry up . |
| 28 | The court thus upheld a claim by three men who had been given discretionary sentences for various sex offences . |
| 29 | A client who hated her job told me she had been considering other options for two years , without taking any positive action . |
| 30 | Lili had said inconsequentially that Syl had been chasing young girls for years , and my mother had asked her crossly how she knew . |