Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] been [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , we have not been persuaded that it would be right to extend the special provision which has been made for the infected haemophiliacs . |
| 2 | They have set up an AIDS task force , which has been searching for the bug that causes the disease ; they suspect a virus . |
| 3 | One such is an experimental GIS which has been developed for the CORINE ( Coordinated Information on the European Environment ) programme of the European Community . |
| 4 | Top of the agenda are the booms across the mouths of the lagoon for when the tides are especially high , and for the canal dredging , which has been neglected for the last forty years . |
| 5 | The contract which has been signed for the fight will be honoured , though , and a new date will be sought for the spring in Glasgow . |
| 6 | It was almost certainly acquired by George III who had it bound in the present red morocco , gilt tooled binding which has been reproduced for the facsimile . |
| 7 | The price which has been paid for the lower rate of tax on income has been the additional National Insurance charge and also the locking up of the profits in excess of the salary of £43,500 as retained profit in the company . |
| 8 | To achieve such a blend of the absurd and the tragic , the writing as well as the acting have to be of exceptional quality — and Courtenay has drawn his inspiration from a remarkable novel by Venedikt Yerofeev which has been adapted for the stage by Stephen Mulrine . |
| 9 | Three are preserved , including 660 in Blackpool which has been restored for the Centenary . |
| 10 | Each of the organisations involved has its own particular viewpoint , none of which has been stifled for the sake of consistent unanimity . |
| 11 | That is the area which has been used for the last five or six years as the basis of the And that outer boundary more or less coincides with the outer boundary erm of the York greenbelt . |
| 12 | And what about Body Shop supremo Anita Roddick , the woman who has been feted for the last ten years as some kind of environmentally conscious feminist icon . |
| 13 | Here 's another new model from guy who has been riding for the same big-time company for literally eons . |
| 14 | Jenny Pitman is another who has been waiting for the rain before releasing a very strong team . |
| 15 | Bootle and Oxton players are unavailable for the match in which Liverpool 's Andy McDowell comes in for Barry Metcalf who has been picked for the Wales side against Dorset . |
| 16 | Walker , the England Youth international goalkeeper , who has been deputising for the injured Thorstvedt , gave away a free kick just inside his penalty area by taking too many steps with the ball . |
| 17 | ‘ This time was a much more pleasant occasion , ’ said John , 45 , who has been running for the last seven years . |
| 18 | Though Alan Watt is back training , he is not included in GH-K 's 24-strong squad , which includes a French No8 , Franck Gruel , who has been playing for the 2nds . |
| 19 | But behind the make-up there still lies a razor sharp intellectual who has been quoted for the past several years as one of the top 100 lawyers in the US . |
| 20 | The House of Lords has asked whether it is sex discrimination , contrary to Directive 76/207/EEC , to dismiss a female employee when she has been engaged for the specific purpose of replacing ( after training ) another female employee who is about to go on maternity leave and when the maternity leave replacement discovers very shortly after appointment that she too is pregnant and will need maternity leave and the employer dismisses her because he needs the job holder to be at work during that period . |
| 21 | She has been sidestepped for the chief slot on News At Ten , been desperately ill and has now been chopped from her Focus On Britain spot . |
| 22 | She 's been speaking for the first time on camera following her release from prison , exclusively to Central News . |
| 23 | Instead , she 's been saved for the moment by an old-fashioned storyteller , worth millions — George Lucas of Star Wars . |
| 24 | Since she left school she 's been working for the Fish Co-operative in Stockholm Backs , not far from Riddle 's yard . ’ |
| 25 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 26 | A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal . |
| 27 | Romany King who was second has a great chance for he has been trained for the race by Toby Balding and will have the assistance of Adrian Maguire the big race specialist . |
| 28 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 29 | He will himself present new data on the cohort of doctors he has been studying for the past 40 years , while his colleagues will review current knowledge on some of the many other topics that he has studied — including the effects on health of oral contraceptives , the parts played by radiation and by asbestos in various cancers , and patterns and trends in mortality . |
| 30 | Although he has had his feet under the desk only since January , he has been preparing for the job since last summer by meeting researchers and officials , visiting institutes abroad and drawing up an initial draft of his plans . |