Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] have [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somerset won the toss and batted , but within 1¾ hours they were bowled out for 88 — this after 60 had been made for the loss of only one wicket . |
| 2 | None of this had been done for the prawn . |
| 3 | Do you see what I mean , see most of this has been done for the convenience of the Quick Save Supermarkets on that er , I should say . |
| 4 | Where employees are concerned , a minimum of 2,000 has been used for the same reason . |
| 5 | At the end of December 1980 , the returns to the Committee on Jail Reform indicated that almost 7,000 ( 8 per cent ) of the 92,000 undertrials had been in gaol for over one year , and 2,500 of these had been held for more than two years . |
| 6 | 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% . |
| 7 | ( The government 's economic policy and budget for the rest of 1992 had been promised for Feb. 15 . ) |
| 8 | An army of 2000 have been reporting for duty … tables to set … glasses to clean … crates of bottles to wheel in … |
| 9 | Recently , ( Mosaic 9 ( 1984 ) , 7 ) a date of 300-320 has been proposed for the Woodchester mosaic . |
| 10 | The twenty eight year-old mother of two had been missing for six days when police frogmen pulled her submerged Renault car out of the river . |
| 11 | In fact , all but one of the new peptide sequences obtained in the analysis of GGF-II have been accounted for within the predicted GGFHBS5 protein sequence . |
| 12 | The National Boards will probably oversee and approve their own courses once a formula for these has been finalised for standard and content by the UKCC . |
| 13 | Peterson Strobe Tuners in particular have been used for years by professional musicians because of their superior accuracy . |
| 14 | Furthermore , differences in the EC 5 of up to 1000-fold have been reported for chloroquine between parasites from a single geographical region . |
| 15 | Various dates ranging from 1850 to 1870 have been suggested for its inauguration , but the first newspaper report , in the Craven Herald , was in 1882 . |
| 16 | Fourteen locomotive types were eliminated during the 1980s , although examples of all but five have been secured for preservation . |
| 17 | In its experience , most workstations are employed as single-user ( albeit multitasking ) systems , and in any case — as Sun is only too aware — there is very little application software around that has been optimised for multiprocessing architectures . |
| 18 | A regular flow of books and short stories followed , among them : The Mystery of the Sea ( 1902 ) ; The Jewel of Seven Stars ( 1903 ) , a tale of Egyptian reincarnation ; The Man ( 1905 ) , a melodrama ; Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving , in two volumes ( 1906 ) ; Lady Athlyne ( 1908 ) , a romance ; Snowbound ( 1908 ) , a collection of short stories ; The Lady of the Shroud ( 1909 ) , which reached its twentieth edition in 1934 ; Famous Imposters ( 1910 ) , which included the story of the Bisley Boy , believed by some to have been substituted for the future Queen Elizabeth in childhood ; and finally The Lair of the White Worm ( 1911 ) , in which he revived the legend of a gigantic serpent capable of assuming human form . |