Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] have [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old people have been indoctrinated for so long in the necessary frailty and peripheralism of their lot that this is not surprising . |
| 2 | After an hour and 55 minutes , some £1,700 had been collected for the fund . |
| 3 | And another £500 had been raised for the appeal . |
| 4 | Fresh fruit has been dried for centuries to preserve the glut of a good harvest . |
| 5 | During the term of the previous Parliament , no fewer than 10 MPs had been prosecuted for corruption ; the most celebrated case involved former Deputy Prime Minister Ted Diro in September 1991 [ see pp. 38534-35 ] . |
| 6 | Six people have been prosecuted for persistently ignoring ‘ residents only ’ parking schemes in Middlesbrough and ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £710 . |
| 7 | A report in The Nation ( Bangkok , Thailand ) of Oct. 28 quoted a Myanma government official as saying that 1,087 people had been detained for political offences since the military takeover on Sept. 18 , 1988 , and that 100 people had been sentenced to death during the previous three months by both military tribunals and civilian courts . |
| 8 | Densities of 2.64 to 2.73 g/cc have been measured for relatively clean sandstones . |
| 9 | These data were compared in the hypertensive and normotensive groups , as nearly as possible to the same ages at which these data had been recorded for hypertensive cases . |
| 10 | Modern treatment for infertility utilizes this concept , something that the Jewish people have been practising for thousands of years . |
| 11 | Convenient scapegoats perhaps , but the K G B was open about today 's activities too ; Major General Alexander Karbalnov of the K G B revealed for the first time that seven hundred thousand people have been executed for political crimes since the revolution and that three-and-a-half million have been repressed . |
| 12 | The West German newspaper Bild Zeitung cited East Berlin sources as saying 3,000 people had been imprisoned for attempted ‘ flight from the Republic ’ . |
| 13 | The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry . |
| 14 | The Department of Health 's annual Keep Warm , Keep Well campaign to advise elderly people has been launched for this winter . |
| 15 | Three more people have been prepared for the surgery , which involves implanting electrodes into the inner ear . |
| 16 | The big fish had been making for deep water all afternoon and Trent had n't seen a bird for the past hour . |
| 17 | About 40 people have been treated for eye and skin irritation , breathing problems and nausea after being exposed to the spill . |
| 18 | The official New China News agency ( Xinhua ) reported that in the first nine months of the year 11,503 people had been arrested for such crimes . |
| 19 | ‘ Other people have been disciplined for similar actions . |
| 20 | But by 1983 sales had been arranged for part of Britoil , Associated British Ports , Amersham International , shares in BP , and the NEB 's shareholdings ( Table 8.2 ) . |
| 21 | A further 40 percent of young people have been registered for jobs and training at careers offices for between two and six months . |
| 22 | On the previous day the Democratic Party had claimed that at least 200 people had been arrested for their part in the previous week 's demonstrations . |
| 23 | My hon. Friend may remember that , in 1980 , a quarter of a million people had been waiting for more than two months for telephones to be connected . |
| 24 | The Economist reported that , although it was more likely that the SDA would receive just 22,000,000 million yen , a 6.1 per cent increase to 4,159,000 million yen had been allocated for defence spending in the draft budget unveiled in January 1990 for the forthcoming 1990 fiscal year . |
| 25 | What TC said , most people have been saying for the last couple of seasons . |
| 26 | This was in accordance with a 1987 debt restructuring agreement whereby creditor banks agreed to allow the repurchase of up to $500,000,000 of debt obligations , and in 1988 $299,000,000 had been repurchased for $167,000,000 from foreign reserves at a 44 per cent discount . |