Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Guidelines have been established for Head Teachers to incorporate road safety education in the school curriculum .
2 Special cages have been developed for wild mice to reduce the need for handling during cleaning but it is possible to keep them in standard mouse cages .
3 Segregation and control units have been used for difficult prisoners , especially in women 's prisons .
4 Several methods have been reported for isolating plasmid DNA for sequencing , for example alkaline lysis ( 1 ) and boiling ( 2 ) .
5 His exclusive designs have been adapted for English homes through unusual partnerships with suppliers in provincial France and , more recently , a team of craftsmen in Kashmir .
6 He claimed NO animals have been sold for medical research for more than 12 years .
7 Data on individual variability have been published for small numbers of patients and controls , and coefficients of variation have been 31–43% under study conditions .
8 Agency heads have been instructed to work within existing budgets and no extra funds have been granted for energy-saving equipment and renovation .
9 Two adult members of the club have been banned for illegal practices .
10 Doubling periods have been measured for other sciences ; thus May determined that mathematical literature doubles every 28 years .
11 Both photocopiers have been set for multiple copies , and both have run out of paper .
12 Two key areas have been selected for initial study , the office of Chairman and Managing Director and that of the Finance Controller .
13 Nine specific areas have been identified for special training programmes , including construction , catering and cleaning .
14 And of a truth vile Epicurism and Sensuality will make the soul of man so degenerate and blinde , that he will not only be content to slide into brutish immorality , but please himself of this very opinion that he is a real Brute already , an Ape , Satyre , Baboon ; and that the best of men are no better , saving that civilising of them and industrious education has made them appear in a more refined shape , and long inculcate precepts have been mistaken for connate Principles of Honesty and Natural Knowledge , otherwise there be no indespensible grounds of Religion and Virtue , but what has hapned to be taken up by overruling Custome .
15 Needs have been identified for high quality therapy equipment at the Developmental Centre and for possible further exchanges of staff in July 1993 .
16 One in four products from the chemist will contain chemical compounds derived from rainforest plants , and it is estimated that to date only one per cent of rainforest plants have been screened for medical use .
17 Certain workers have been monitored for internal contamination by radionuclides and exposure to other forms of radiation such as neutrons since the 1950s , but this is not done routinely and monitoring methods can be unreliable .
18 Writs have been served for outstanding advertising fees amounting to £16,000 , and it seems unlikely they will be paid — bailiffs were sent to the firm 's place of trading , but nothing of any value was recovered .
19 Caching of food , on the other hand , does occur , and records of 70 or 80 prey individuals being stored in one place have been described for different predator species ( Quick , 1951 ; Parovshchikov , 1963 ; Chesemore , 1975 ; MacDonald , 1976 ) .
20 While many new ideas have been promoted for budgetary reform it remains the case that they have generally failed to gain general acceptance .
21 London 's Victorian railway stations have been at the centre of the , now declining , spate of property development in the capital , as conveniently located derelict land and industrial/warehouse buildings have been exploited for new office accommodation .
22 For you , the only safe commerce with reason is to learn from your superiors the dogmata in which her deliverances have been codified for general use .
23 The variations in gas yield and composition with maturity have been determined for Palaeozoic and Tertiary coals using data obtained from laboratory heating experiments .
24 In the past eight years , some 5,400 police officers have been freed for operational policing duties by civilianising posts which do not require the powers or skills of a police officer , representing an efficiency gain of around £100 million per year .
25 Three of the best young black players in South Africa have been earmarked for extensive trials in England by Paul Gascoigne 's advisor Mel Stein .
26 For the first time there is access to the Crown Room for wheelchairs , and full-size ‘ hands-on ’ replicas of the Regalia have been made for blind or partially-sighted visitors .
27 Foreign publications have been criticised for alleged one-sided reporting and their correspondents have been denied visas .
28 ‘ Prohibited steps orders have been made for local authorities in county courts everywhere , ’ Spicer said .
29 More complex techniques have been developed for approximate string matching , allowing for possible spelling or recognition errors in the input word ( Hall and Dowling , 1980 ; Kashyap and Oommen , 1984 ) .
30 Centres have been used for cooperative curriculum development planning ( what in America would be called " curriculum workshops " ) , teachers in similar subject fields from a number of neighbouring schools meeting together to share inspiration , experience and effort .
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