Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [been] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gay energy has been taken up with service provision and public education : little has been left for meaningful activism , and our anger , fear and grief has been kept strictly privatised , so as not to exacerbate the hostility we face in the outside world , and so as not to risk funding . |
| 2 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 3 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 4 | That has been happening for some time , but the Secretary of State and the Minister should know that . |
| 5 | The campaign to bring Blair Peach 's murderer to justice and the demand for a full public inquiry into the events of ‘ 79 has been mounted for nine and a half years by the Friends of Blair Peach Committee . |
| 6 | This has been recognised for some time , perhaps most articulately in France , as one of the attainments to be expected from a top-class academic teacher and researcher , with an outstanding ability in accurate communication with the men ( and women ) in the street : haute popularisation . |
| 7 | Er , but the interesting , the interesting thing is that they are prepared to pay and yet this obsession this obsession with this ideology that the only way you can get you can go forward in in terms of er placing this this country in any economic status in the way it may have been and er is is to privatisation of V A T. Chairman I look forward to the day when when the very air and this has been said for that we breathe will either be privatised or more important they 'll stick a bloody V A T on it . |
| 8 | If this has been leaking for some time then the transfer box is probably low on oil . |
| 9 | This has been found for retinol-binding protein and the odour-binding proteins ( M. Boudjelal , A. Sivaprasadarao and J.B.C.F. , unpublished results ) . |
| 10 | While early agreement in principle on the agency is likely , the actual launching of the agency may run into the same difficulties that have beset the European Environment Agency — this has been stalled for more than a year in an acrimonious ‘ who-gets-what ’ dispute over the sharing-out of the prestige , finance and jobs that flow from ‘ hosting ’ EC institutions . |
| 11 | This has been reported for clustered small intestinal contractions identified in patients with irritable bowel syndrome , which seem to coincide with pain . |
| 12 | In the UK since October 1982 , the number of people unemployed has been measured for official purposes as the number of ‘ people claiming benefit ( that is , unemployment benefit , supplementary benefits or national insurance credits ) at Unemployment Benefit Offices on the day of the monthly count , who on that day were unemployed and able and willing to do any suitable work ’ . |
| 13 | There should have been a large timber column but this had been removed for some reason many years ago and led to the roof sagging some 4 ’ . |
| 14 | Some had been waiting for more than an hour , arriving while it was still dark and the little windows of the cells were still lit . |
| 15 | Corpus availability is currently limited due to legal constraints although some have been cleared for academic research . |
| 16 | Their black pyjama uniform of the Seventies has been exchanged for grey-green jackets and trousers , but they still wear the krama , the chequered cotton scarves common to all Cambodian peasants . |
| 17 | Apart from the obvious point that it fails to produce uniformity its principal defect is that it leads to the application of a particular national law which is likely to have been devised for domestic transactions and may well be ill-suited to those which are international in character . |
| 18 | None of these lists , however , is wholly useful for the study of urban deaf populations , as all three have been designed for anthropological study of one sort or another , and include words such as spear and dung . |
| 19 | The technique requires queue managers at either end and IBM says that it has these have been written for all of its operating systems , plus Digital Equipment Corp VAX/VMS , Stratus Computer Inc 's badged System/88 machines , and Tandem Computers Inc 's Guardian operating system . |
| 20 | The ancient Chinese believed that the electrical energy of the body flowed in specific channels known as the acupuncture meridians , and charts illustrating these have been known for several thousands of years . |
| 21 | The Welsh international has been sidelined for much of the past two seasons . |
| 22 | All had been festering for many years . |
| 23 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 24 | A few have become derelict as smaller farms have been taken over by the larger conglomerates but many have been restored for non-farming families : that is , those which have not got past the point of no return after being left open to the four winds for too many years ; fit only for pigeon habitation . |
| 25 | Academics have been writing books and articles ; Charter 88 has been campaigning for constitutional reform ; citizenship is to be incorporated in the National Curriculum in the schools ; and a commission under the august patronage of the Speaker of the House of Commons published a report entitled Encouraging Citizenship in October 1990 . |
| 26 | A Nottingham car salesman who went with two prostitutes aged fourteen and fifteen has been jailed for three years . |
| 27 | A Nottingham car salesman who went with two prostitutes aged fourteen and fifteen has been jailed for three years . |
| 28 | Many of the backing off formulae that are available have been derived for semantic applications where the matrices are extremely sparse . |
| 29 | that save where persons under 16 have been exploited for sexual purposes or persons of any age have been made to suffer actual physical harm , sexual depictions should no longer be subject to the criminal law ; and |
| 30 | The SIB 's new Conduct of Business Core Rule 28 has been adopted for this purpose . |