Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In terms of ideology it is exactly what the FMLN has been fighting for these past seven years . |
| 3 | The majority of delegations have nevertheless said they are in favour of including such consequences within the scope of the law of contracts , but in order to take account of the opposition expressed provision has been made for any contracting state to enter a reservation on this matter : article 22(1) ( b ) . |
| 4 | Management considers that adequate provision has been made for any liability which may arise in respect of the years 1981 to 1983 . |
| 5 | No provision has been made for any taxation liability that would arise is these assets were disposed of at their revalued amount . |
| 6 | Mr Kemp has been trying for several years to prod the White House into launching a serious anti-poverty programme . |
| 7 | Brian Clough has been trying for several weeks to recapture the man he sees as a key player in his fight to lift Forest off the bottom of the Premier League . |
| 8 | KEVIN WARD has been banned for both of St Helens ' two big holiday attractions . |
| 9 | A computerised index has been prepared for these and other donations of commercial and ‘ folk ’ recordings . |
| 10 | Our awards are renowned for their transportability across the many countries in which the Board has been recognised for more than a century . |
| 11 | No one has yet argued that the attitudes of nineteenth-century working class wives ‘ modernised ’ , although such a case has been made for both young , single working class women and middle class wives . |
| 12 | Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail . |
| 13 | A similar effect of DNJ on integrin mediated cell adhesion to collagens has been described for several myoblast cell lines . |
| 14 | Now er sure the programme has been delayed for all the reasons I I 've mentioned . |
| 15 | Mr Bell said : ‘ My programme has been set for many weeks and every day is tied up . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The huge space-based extravaganza has been gone for some time . |
| 20 | Michael Roberts has been booked for another fancied horse in Red Paddy , but the best-backed horses yesterday were Blue Orca , who is as low as 12-1 with Ladbrokes but still 16-1 with Hills , and Tafila , who was offered at 33-1 yesterday morning but by the evening was generally 16-1 . |
| 21 | The research has been done for some time and the results have been known for some time , yet still the Government do nothing . |
| 22 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 23 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 24 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 25 | Why of course : the Essoldo had been built for these middle class folk in the 1930s — they were Patrons ! |
| 26 | In later letters to Hanns , John mentioned that ‘ we have quite a lot of black tarlatan , so if you could use it in your designs , do so ’ , as about £1 had been allowed for each costume and the tarlatan was free . |
| 27 | The squinch had been known for some time and was used in Persia , Turkestan , Armenia and Asia Minor . |
| 28 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 29 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 30 | If it was a turning point in terms of ‘ proving ’ the relationship , it also marked the change in image Kylie had been wanting for such a long time . |