Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] for [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Let us begin by trying to understand the rationale for the system ; after all , it has been used for many years and must presumably have had some point to it . |
| 32 | It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis . |
| 33 | These are in addition to applications in the detergents field , in which it has been used for many years . |
| 34 | Our system of construction has been used for many years all over this country , by the sponsoring authorities and others , and erm we do n't have the earthquake requirements , but we do need many high value schools both quickly and on time , and we 've completed something like 2,000 projects similar to this over many years . |
| 35 | Salt has been used for many centuries as a preservative , whereby it is left on food to withdraw the moisture present by the process of osmosis . |
| 36 | The award for best British film went to The Crying Game , which , along with Howards End , has been nominated for several Oscars . |
| 37 | ‘ She has been missing for several days now and we are concerned for her safety , ’ said a Garston police spokesman . |
| 38 | The decommissioning of a small experimental reactor on the Sellafield site has been continuing for some years . |
| 39 | A different mechanism has been suggested for those viruses that are already enclosed within a membrane in their free-living state . |
| 40 | To ‘ off-comed 'uns ’ it is not even a large village , with only 2,080 inhabitants , but to the native it is a town because it has held a market charter since 1223 and although no market has been held for many years , the charter was read once a year in the market place until 1939 . |
| 41 | One solution that has been proposed for some words is ‘ reclaiming ’ — investing a negative word with a more positive meaning . |
| 42 | Retrovirus-mediated gene transfer into transplantable cells has been proposed for several conditions , but treatment of immunodeficiency caused by adenosine deaminase ( ADA ) deficiency appears imminent . |
| 43 | Moreover , experience in New Zealand and Australia ( where the strict rule has been relaxed for some years ) has not shown that the non-availability of materials has raised these practical problems . |
| 44 | Mr Bell said : ‘ My programme has been set for many weeks and every day is tied up . ’ |
| 45 | It has been occurring for many years and has been embodied in legislation such as the Housing Acts of 1935 and 1957 , although numbers of sales have fluctuated considerably according to the political complexions of the government of the day . |
| 46 | Because income support was introduced at a time when there would otherwise have been an increase in supplementary benefits , and because transitional protection has been provided for some groups of claimants who have been transferred to income support , the Government claims that relatively few people suffered an actual cut in benefit in April 1988 . |
| 47 | But for this House to depart from a rule relating to land law which has been established for many centuries might upset long established titles . |
| 48 | The hotline has been established for former pupils , families and staff at New Barns school at Toddington in Gloucestershire , which is at the centre of a police investigation after the vice-chairman of the governors , Peter Righton was arrested and questioned about alleged pornography . |
| 49 | In Kilarrow , a tile works has lately been erected for making drain-tiles ; a local Agricultural Society has been established for some years ( in fact 1838 ) and prizes been awarded for the improvement of the breed of black-cattle and sheep , and for the encouragement of green crop husbandry . |
| 50 | In Kilarrow , a tile works has lately been erected for making drain-tiles ; a local Agricultural Society has been established for some years ( in fact 1838 ) and prizes been awarded for the improvement of the breed of black-cattle and sheep , and for the encouragement of green crop husbandry . |
| 51 | It has been known for many years that damage to the left hemisphere is more likely to affect language ability than damage to the right , suggesting that the left hemisphere is very important for language . |
| 52 | For example , it is still commonplace in cartoons to show cavemen and dinosaurs together , despite the fact that it has been known for many years that dinosaurs were extinct long before the evolution of ‘ cavemen ’ . |
| 53 | It has been known for many years that rich clusters contain a lot of gas and dark matter , but Ponman and Bertram 's result shows that these features apply more generally . |
| 54 | It has been known for many years that neurons , like other cells , can be maintained alive and well under such conditions for periods of many days or even weeks , provided they are kept warm , aerated and well fed with glucose and other essential molecules . |
| 55 | It has been known for many years that recycling used materials helps make great savings , but it was not until recently that it was realised how much good that it could do for the environment . |
| 56 | It has been known for some years now that records of the electricity activity of the brain during sleep — by electrodes attached to the scalp , face and neck — confirm that different types of sleep exist . |
| 57 | A further example is when an organisation which has been trading for many decades finds itself increasingly out of touch with the market and the organisation 's internal culture and style is no longer appropriate to the markets it is trying to address . |
| 58 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 59 | It is also guaranteeing mortgages at 1 per cent below the normal interest rate , for endowment or pension-linked policies , on several of the houses up for sale , an interesting and innovative service for would-be bidders ( mortgage surveys will already have been undertaken for these houses ) . |
| 60 | Sir Patrick Mayhew must have been hoping for some winners and losers , as he considers how to kick-start his talks process . |