Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of completing the resurvey of the Coventry district , a comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area by way of experiment . |
| 2 | A comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area , by way of experiment , so that thematic maps can be produced when required , as well as a more advanced three-dimensional depiction of geological structure . |
| 3 | ‘ Both of them play have represented Denmark at under-21 level while Morton has been called up for the senior squad . |
| 4 | A twenty year old man has been called in for a chat with an inspector . |
| 5 | This profound sense of destiny which has influenced her life gives her an intuitive awareness that she has been singled out for a special role . |
| 6 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 7 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 8 | We use this way in to stop people stealing what gear we have.Andy has been scratching around for a regular roof over his head for a year , ever since he lost his job and his home burned down in a fire . |
| 9 | ‘ Hodge has been ruled out for the season after an appendix operation , but I am confident Jones will do a good job . |
| 10 | East Belfast-based midfielder Keery ( 28 ) has been holding out for a better deal than the one on offer . |
| 11 | If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours . |
| 12 | Robert Taylor has been listening out for the sounds of an economic recovery |
| 13 | Over in Cheltenham , Frank Ford has been watching out for the first signs of winter . |
| 14 | As far as I know computers have not yet been brought to bear on the Synoptic Problem which has been tossed around for a century . |
| 15 | In the open intellectual milieu where Catholic exegetes and theologians now move among colleagues of other traditions of faith or of none , the traditional term ‘ hermeneutics ’ ( the art and the principles of interpretation ) has been taken over for a mode of philosophical discussion so technical that its products are usually baffling even to a well-educated reader . |
| 16 | The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up . |
| 17 | Dr Peggy Heeks reports on research she has been carrying out for the British Library |
| 18 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 19 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 20 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 21 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 23 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 24 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 25 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 26 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 27 | Although the song has been cleaned up for the video ( sucker is the substituted word ) , and some sentences are left out completely , the track is funky enough to hold up instrumentally . |
| 28 | The old Moscow publishers Iskusstvo managed to release just one book last year , and having exhausted its resources , it was forced to suspend publication of the journal Iskusstvo , which has been coming out for a number of decades . |
| 29 | But Thomas has been lined up for a return in Sunday 's FA Cup third round tie at Bolton Wanderers . |
| 30 | Trained by the man in form Nigel Twiston-Davies , who had a double at Cheltenham , Captain Dibble has been laid out for the race and has n't run since January when he finished third behind Very Very Ordinary carrying 12 stone at Ascot . |