Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vicar calls for silence for the ‘ Lord Mayor ’ , who makes a short speech declaring he has been elected for a year and a day . |
| 2 | It was the first time the company has been prosecuted for a hygiene offence . |
| 3 | Once a specific PCR has been developed for an organism , it requires little expertise to perform the test . |
| 4 | Privately , New York dealers say the Ikeda Gallery is loading works purchased by Japanese investors and dealers back into the U.S. market , part of a trend that has been observed for a year now . |
| 5 | Using large fragments of flanking sequences , brain-specific expression has been observed for a number of neuronal-specific genes in transgenic mice ( 31,32,33,34,28 ) , including the HF-H gene ( 35 ) . |
| 6 | I do not believe that the case has been made for a change in our policy . |
| 7 | A powerful case has been made for a change in the law . |
| 8 | To multiply human cells in tissue culture on the scale necessary presented considerable difficulties , but enough material has been made for a variety of clinical trials against many different viral diseases and certain cancers . |
| 9 | Many kind Friends interest themselves in George Green 's behalf , and I find that by this day 's post an application has been made for a specimen of his hand-writing etc. and a hope held out of a situation ( in a Counting house , I believe ) , but if you were willing to take him , and if it could be arranged in other points , he would greatly prefer being in your establishment to any thing else . |
| 10 | As the restaurant 's evening opening hours are 19.00 to 21.30 hours , no application has been made for a supper hour certificate or other extension . |
| 11 | COSLA remains convinced that no case has been made for a shake-up on the scale proposed . |
| 12 | The type of employment offered by manufacturing industry in rural areas has been questioned for a number of reasons . |
| 13 | The response to prey size has been compared for a set of four barn owl pellet samples from England and South Africa ( Fig. 2.1 ) . |
| 14 | As its name would suggest , WinFax is a Windows-based Fax application , which has been shipping for a year now in its Version 2.0 form . |
| 15 | EC ERASMUS funding has been obtained for a teaching visit to l'Universite Paul Valery , Montpellier in 1990 . |
| 16 | The form of T k has been given for a variety of cosmological models in refs 19 , 28 . |
| 17 | Free kick has been given for a foul on Oldfield . |
| 18 | An encouraging development is that the opportunity has been given for a submission to be made in early autumn on behalf of the preserved railway movement to the House of Commons Select Committee which will be dealing with the Government 's privatisation proposals . |
| 19 | Another worker has been sacked for a shoplifting offence in a local store . |
| 20 | Implementation ‘ has been precluded for a number of years by the absence of realistic resources to undertake the task ( in terms of funding and/or staff ) . |
| 21 | The US has been trying for a decade to clinch the deal , not least because it would give its nuclear forces control of what is seen as the strategically vital Pacific zone and a new set of options if its Philippine naval and air bases are threatened . |
| 22 | Today the unqualified term has been appropriated for a form of democracy which is , at best , indirect . |
| 23 | CINEMA outside Hollywood used to come in national waves , but no longer : China has been silenced for a while , and the work emerging out of Africa has been distributed too sporadically to seem like a movement . |
| 24 | AN ADVENTUROUS woman has been selected for an expedition to study the rare black rhinoceros in Africa . |
| 25 | CHARLES Keating , a prominent figure in the $500 billion savings and loan scandal in the United States , has been jailed for a total of 10 years for deceiving depositors into buying junk bonds that became worthless . |
| 26 | A Glasgow man who blackmailed gay businessmen by threatening to expose their homosexuality , has been jailed for a total of four and half years at the city 's sheriff court . |
| 27 | A teacher who allowed schoolchildren to have under age sex and drug sessions at his home has been jailed for a year . |
| 28 | Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan . |
| 29 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 30 | From the statement " It has been raining for an hour in Chicago " , for example , we are able to infer , using our knowledge of the real world , that the streets of Chicago are wet . |