Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] for [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , the Shetland summer season has been tainted for many of us by the knowledge that thousands of our sea-birds have failed to raise any young . |
| 2 | 4 million quid for a guy that almost went to jail and has been injured for most of the season |
| 3 | The Welsh international has been sidelined for much of the past two seasons . |
| 4 | A ley can really only be said to be confirmed if it has been walked for most of its length . |
| 5 | Football has been transformed for most of those who follow it from a Saturday afternoon activity in all weathers to a Saturday night home entertainment . |
| 6 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 7 | In terms of ideology it is exactly what the FMLN has been fighting for these past seven years . |
| 8 | KEVIN WARD has been banned for both of St Helens ' two big holiday attractions . |
| 9 | Its growth rate has been outstripped for much of the time by that of France and even , in some recent years , by that of the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | The Left Coalition has so far ruled out linking up with the conservatives again — the improbable alliance of last June has been blamed for much of their drop in support — but has already hinted that it would be willing to support a national unity government as proposed by the New Democrat leader Mr Constantine Mitsotakis . |
| 11 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 12 | The programme should have been broadcast for most of last month as well . |
| 13 | The two ladies in attendance on the Queen had been banished to a corner of the solar , where they sat talking quietly , half hidden by a carved wooden screen , but only the slightest effort would have been needed for either of them to overhear the interrogation going on by the fireplace . |
| 14 | No after action reports seem to have been filed for any of these early raids , which is not surprising considering the impromptu nature of their planning and execution . |
| 15 | The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above . |
| 16 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 17 | A phased return of responsibility from the army to the civilian police was begun in 1976 and had been completed for most of the region by early 1977 . |
| 18 | Although we had been in the land of constant daylight for several days , the sun had been hidden for much of the time by high cloud . |
| 19 | James chatting with the Earl of Farrow outside Farrow Hall , which had been used for many of the exterior shots in Pemberley . |
| 20 | The same spoon had been used for this for many years and was burnt black . |
| 21 | The other eye had been closed for most of the fight by a left hook that had caused a large amount of swelling both above and below the brow . |
| 22 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 23 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 24 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 27 | Speaking immediately after his election , John Young said : ‘ I am honoured and delighted to be elected Deputy Vice President and I see it as an opportunity to contribute to some of the serious issues facing the profession , and to represent a body with which I have been involved for much of my life . |
| 28 | Screen metaphors have been developed for each of these areas to make location in the system a graphical attribute . |
| 29 | This has proved so popular that arrangements have been made for this to be included in the admission price to the Centre . |
| 30 | The technique requires queue managers at either end and IBM says that it has these have been written for all of its operating systems , plus Digital Equipment Corp VAX/VMS , Stratus Computer Inc 's badged System/88 machines , and Tandem Computers Inc 's Guardian operating system . |