Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | No radiometric ages less than about 3000 Ma have been obtained for any lunar samples except for a tentative date of 850 Ma for material thought to have been ejected and heated by the formation of Copernicus ( Figure 6.7 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ But the important thing at this stage is that the right decision has been made for the athletes . |
| 3 | Giving their decision , Lord Hope said strong reasons had been given for hearing what the children had to say without taking them back to Orkney . |
| 4 | The trouble began when 10,000 Moslems marched in the town centre , protesting that permission had been granted for a five-day Christian revivalist rally to be addressed by a German preacher , Reinhard Bonnke , whereas some weeks previously permission had been refused for a South African imam to visit Kano . |
| 5 | It also reminds Beijing that permission has been refused for local protesters to erect a replica Statue of Democracy on a permanent site . |
| 6 | A new oral drug has been selected for clinical trials which are progressing well at The Royal Marsden Hospital . |
| 7 | Once a specific PCR has been developed for an organism , it requires little expertise to perform the test . |
| 8 | Quite recently , the European Parliament have been calling for oil ships which do not meet E E C standards to be expelled from community waters . |
| 9 | A number of possible reasons have been identified for the rapid expansion of private sector residential care : the increase in the numbers of very old people , the reduction in long-stay hospital provision , cuts in local authority spending , and finally , the ‘ perverse incentives ’ of the social security system that encourages residential rather than community care . |
| 10 | ‘ Posh restaurants have been closing for renovations and re-opening as cheap eateries . ’ |
| 11 | If , on the other hand , ‘ domicile ’ had the meaning which that term had been given for the purposes of the application of the Brussels Convention , it must be assimilated to residence . |
| 12 | She calmly told me that the police had called round and that Nassim had been looking for me . |
| 13 | And finally , not on the green sheet , I will tell you , to put you all out of your misery , that tea has been arranged for six thirty . |
| 14 | If these ten poorest readers had been selected for remedial teaching during the six-month period a ( probably ) spurious improvement in spelling would be inferred . |
| 15 | Recent pension fund scandals have shown how right Labour has been to call for stronger legal protection . |
| 16 | At the time of writing , a further 22 titles have been announced for autumn 1991 and spring 1992 . |
| 17 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 18 | The changing distributions between 1970 and 1980 on this index have been calculated for over 100 countries , with some surprising results . |
| 19 | This technique has been used for uranium , copper , fluorine and other relatively soluble elements . |
| 20 | Two further reasons have been given for the establishment of government-owned newspapers or for the taking over of existing privately owned ones . |
| 21 | Management considers that adequate provision has been made for any liability which may arise in respect of the years 1981 to 1983 . |
| 22 | Mm detailed plans have been approved for a single storey dwelling in the garden on one of the houses condition on the surgery reverting to living accommodation , the houses would have considerable scope for use as offices subject to planning or paramedical use especially where large car parking areas are required , the whole is available at two hundred and fifty thousand pounds , but offers may be considered for number twenty five with the garden and parking area building plots to the agent |
| 23 | This route has been earmarked for a possible future extension of the Midland Metro light rail transit system . |
| 24 | Careful plans have been made for these people so that when the hospital eventually closes they will not find themselves on the streets . |
| 25 | The first pilot residential course has been planned for the twenty first of February , and it 's going to take place at C O D at Donnington , and subject to that course working out successfully , erm , the employment service in the army will be working on this , the employment service department asked to deliver the army to post six more courses erm , next year . |
| 26 | The funeral was delayed for three hours after members of Katherine 's family complained that the wrong grave had been opened for the ceremony . |
| 27 | He says the old skills have been lost for 80 years . |
| 28 | More recently , this dock has been used for the importation of Fiat cars ( it used to be used for the export of British cars ) . |
| 29 | The results of this study have been submitted for publication . |
| 30 | A careful search had been made for two orphaned children whom the Sheikha could foster and love as her own . |