Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Lords has asked whether it is sex discrimination , contrary to Directive 76/207/EEC , to dismiss a female employee when she has been engaged for the specific purpose of replacing ( after training ) another female employee who is about to go on maternity leave and when the maternity leave replacement discovers very shortly after appointment that she too is pregnant and will need maternity leave and the employer dismisses her because he needs the job holder to be at work during that period . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , a blow has been struck for the land-owning taxpayer , particularly those less well-off individuals who have not been able to defend themselves against the local district valuer 's increasingly aggressive commercial techniques . |
| 3 | A new method has been developed for the current project which attempts to provide a much simplified morphological system with little increase in the storage requirements and remove the errors permitted by the affix-stripping methods . |
| 4 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
| 5 | 20 pence for every card sold goes into the Molly Braithwaite Fund and with your help to date £70 has been raised for the above fund . |
| 6 | THE draw has been made for the Indoor Football Championship in Hong Kong , which runs from November 15 to 28 . |
| 7 | And even after due allowance has been made for the undeniable fact , easily forgotten as it is , that literature is written by writers , and that writers are likely to be highly exceptional beings who actively prefer working alone , there is still something persuasively representative about the man in the play who would rather listen to a new recording of a favourite opera than to the problems of his neighbours and relatives . |
| 8 | There has been a substantial advance in real-terms pay under our Administration , and this year the pay award that has been made for the current year is increasing the teachers ' pay bill overall by 11.3 per cent . |
| 9 | The Group has no present intention to dispose of the AUK Notes and therefore no tax provision has been made for the potential liability to corporation tax . |
| 10 | A SECOND ransom demand has been made for the kidnapped champion Irish donkey Toby . |
| 11 | However , we have not been persuaded that it would be right to extend the special provision which has been made for the infected haemophiliacs . |
| 12 | A CALL has been made for an empty building near a town centre to be turned into a nursery . |
| 13 | This once German land , which under Polish rule sank into misery and neglect , has been conquered for the German people by sword and plow . |
| 14 | For many years AI has been calling for an independent judicial inquiry to investigate the pattern of disputed killings by security forces in Northern Ireland in order to help prevent unlawful killings . |
| 15 | The refuge has been supported for the past 18 years by the Swindon-based financial services group Allied Dunbar . |
| 16 | Up to £2 million has been budgeted for the special needs grant but the amount spent will depend on the take-up . |
| 17 | Funding has been obtained for a vocational exchange between catering students from Telford and Lyon in France . |
| 18 | The use of high dose ascorbic acid ( vitamin C ) has been advocated for a wide range of ailments for years . |
| 19 | Permission has been given for an 18-hole golf course at the Redworth Hall Hotel , near Heighington . |
| 20 | This route has been earmarked for a possible future extension of the Midland Metro light rail transit system . |
| 21 | The yard has been earmarked for a complete overhaul by private developers . |
| 22 | The EC Commission 's own environment department may be allocated some of the $6.5 million which , to date , has been earmarked for the new agency . |
| 23 | Some flights are night flights — when you arrive in the resort your room is immediately available , as it has been reserved for the whole night . |
| 24 | Certainly it has been argued for a discrete stimulus trained as an occasion setter that subsequently presenting it alone will not produce a loss of occasion-setting power ( e.g. Rescorla 1986 ) ( but see also Ross 1983 ; Holland and Gory 1986 ) . |
| 25 | A quantitative estimate of inversion using this newly defined velocity-depth trend has been constructed for the Sole Pit Basin area ( Fig. 10 ) and will be discussed below in comparison with estimates based on vitrinite reflectance . |
| 26 | For example , little sheltered housing has been constructed for the old and disabled . |
| 27 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 28 | Hogg added it was likely a draw would be made to determine the order of matches in the Scottish inter-district championship , while the following programme has been devised for the Scottish districts v Irish provinces contest : |
| 29 | Mr Lindsey said that , from 5 January , S&P were offering a variable Tessa paying an initial 7.5% , against the fixed rate version at 5.875% , which is slightly higher than the average that S&P , as a group , has been forecasting for the financial year beginning in April 1993 . |
| 30 | This very high degree of risk has been maintained for a long time as many studies over the past thirty years have shown . |