Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] for this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 2 | In the Commons vote in June last year a majority of 123 was against any change , and MPs believed the issue had been settled for this Parliament . |
| 3 | Some Home Corners have even extended onto split levels or two floors , where raised areas have been used for this purpose . |
| 4 | In New York , visitors to the Studio Museum have been prepared for this recasting of Lam by a retrospective of his works on paper at the Americas Society , which travels to Barcelona 's Fundacio ‘ La Caixa ’ on 21 January . |
| 5 | Some general practitioners will also benefit from schemes to improve substandard premises ; £170 million over six years has been promised for this ( but only £10 million for 1993–4 ) . |
| 6 | An additional £600m ( $A1.36bn ) over five years has been allocated for this . |
| 7 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 8 | In addition , a number of works from the Statens Museum for Kunst , Copenhagen have been added for this showing . |
| 9 | In fact there are six , including the background colour , which means that six colours have been used for this design . |
| 10 | At the time of going to press , not one person has been nominated for this post . |
| 11 | A seminar has been planned for this autumn and the Drouot Foundation has invited the Pavlovsk Museum to show its collection in Paris . |
| 12 | BELOW The same evidence has been used for this house , but the reconstruction is quite different . |
| 13 | The same spoon had been used for this for many years and was burnt black . |
| 14 | The previous half-year figures have been adjusted for this change in presentation . |
| 15 | An appointment has been made for this morning , but there is expected to be a delay before results are known . |
| 16 | The Department of Health 's annual Keep Warm , Keep Well campaign to advise elderly people has been launched for this winter . |
| 17 | Although an adjoining area of ground had been purchased for this purpose , it was never developed as a burial ground and its virgin state allowed the Ekarro Housing Co-operative to complement the conversion of All Saints and St Barnabas with a new building , in the style of the surrounding villas , accommodating further flats for co-operative members ( Plate 26 ) . |
| 18 | Dowd had been waiting for this man , Matthias McGann , to say his piece . |
| 19 | Saving the best fruit until last , our most enthusiastic comments have been reserved for this yacht 's performance under sail . |
| 20 | In addition , there has been some growth in part-time courses leading to CNAA master 's degrees and to date twelve centres have been approved for this purpose , offering courses to about 350 students . |
| 21 | People have been murdered for this job and no one gives a shit . |
| 22 | This has proved so popular that arrangements have been made for this to be included in the admission price to the Centre . |
| 23 | Arrangements have been completed for this . |
| 24 | You will see that several large pads have been trimmed for this reason on our working example layout for the UV Exposure Timer . |
| 25 | He could feel a sense of power and satisfaction , as though his whole life had been lived for this . |
| 26 | No satisfactory explanation has been found for this spontaneous decline although changes in the nitrosamine content of foods may be one factor . |
| 27 | How many brave men had been murdered for this ? |
| 28 | A solution has now been offered and , if we accept it , we were right : the ladies had truthfully reported what they had seen , but in fact it was a sort of fancy-dress fête champêtre organized by Robert de Montesquiou : as no official permission had been granted for this , the authorities denied all knowledge of it . |
| 29 | At present , no minister could answer a parliamentary question by saying that whatever his views on the matter , responsibility had been allocated for this function to Assistant Secretary Brown and it was up to that official to take whatever course of action he thought best to achieve the set objectives . |
| 30 | No contingency plans had been made for this eventuality . |