Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] for [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The plant has been neglected for a few years so I thought I 'd give it some plant food and water and to my astonishment this was the result , ’ said Margaret . |
| 2 | Where employees are concerned , a minimum of 2,000 has been used for the same reason . |
| 3 | Meanwhile a memorial service has been held for the former cabinet minister and Cotswolds MP Nicholas Ridley . |
| 4 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 5 | The government 's Countryside Commission argued that the licence should only have been renewed for a few years during a thorough review of military land requirements . |
| 6 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |
| 7 | Inexplicably , two compulsory first-year lectures had been scheduled for the same day and time , and the error had only just been noticed . |
| 8 | But he stressed that no formal approach had been made for the former football ground . |
| 9 | Armenia 's nuclear power station was closed in February 1989 because of earthquake fears , while construction of nuclear plants in Krasnodar and the Crimea had been terminated for the same reason , after popular protests and construction of several reactors of the Chernobyl type had also been halted . |
| 10 | Even more important was that the jungle habitat had been protected for the same reason . |
| 11 | It was unlikely that murder had been committed for a few pounds , but one could never be sure . |
| 12 | He believed Everett had been murdered for the same reason Cunningham did . |
| 13 | To this extent we could say that the cultural materialists re-assert a form of reflection theory , where history has become a mirror in which contemporary political priorities have been substituted for the former certain ground of Marxist analysis . |
| 14 | Two seats out of three have been won for no more than 42.5% of the votes , and two out of four for only 24.2% . |
| 15 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |