Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Croce , a noted Philadelphia cancer researcher , has only been collecting for the past ten years , specialising in Italian seventeenth-century paintings and drawings . |
| 2 | Naturally , VI would rather sell X-Designer than enhance rival products , but in the US where X-Designer has only been sold for the past year , rival products have a much stronger hold and the separation of the Graph Widgets enables a toehold into these accounts for the VI sales force . |
| 3 | I believe she used to be so reluctant about marrying people because marriage is important to her , she 's only been waiting for the right one . ’ |
| 4 | In general , estate development has not been studied for the pre-Conquest period — there are not enough documents and the field evidence is enigmatic . |
| 5 | Further promoter deletions have not been analysed for the murine NF-L gene to permit a functional comparison to be made of the minimal regulatory sequences that are needed for neuronal-specific expression in human and mouse genes . |
| 6 | Mr Wormwood 's fine crop of black hair was now a dirty silver , the colour this time of a tightrope-walker 's tights that had not been washed for the entire circus season . |
| 7 | Now pressures are such that consent has finally been given for the southern by-pass , a scheme first proposed in 1916 . |
| 8 | The Florios worked the room with ease and self-confidence and by the time they had reached the podium an aide to the candidate was saying that almost a million dollars had already been raised for the Democratic campaign . |
| 9 | In fact , stage dates have already been estimated for the Cretaceous , with the startling conclusion that of the 67 million years attributed to the twelve stages of the system , nearly 20 million are given to a single stage-the Cenomanian . |
| 10 | Glenda Jackson had already been approached for the female lead . |
| 11 | But for Seldes too it was ‘ the times ’ that had largely been to blame for the infantile nature of the movies . |
| 12 | The reduction in the mid-latitude ozone maximum has also been noted for the Antarctic and the overall figure is reminiscent of the Southern Hemisphere spring total ozone distribution , albeit with an ozone hole of smaller total area . |
| 13 | Meath manager Sean Boylan has also been returned for the coming season . |
| 14 | Separate points values have also been included for the various Engineers School weapons carried by the War Wagon crew and described as part of the War Wagon rules . |
| 15 | It has also been running for the past three weeks against The Free Frenchman , which may turn out to be a turbo-tortoise but which started as the turn off of the week . |
| 16 | The first candidates have now been enrolling for the new , operational system , following the successful completion of the pilot phases of the Advanced Courses Development Programme during 1988–90 . |
| 17 | A total of eight candidates had originally been registered for the presidential contest [ see pp. 38768-69 ] , but one , Joseph Estrada , had later decided to withdraw his candidature in favour of contesting the vice-presidency . |
| 18 | In addition an agent or distributor has often been found for the new product , improving after sales support in the UK . |
| 19 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 20 | IRISH League secretary Harry Wallace revealed today that no dates had yet been finalised for the outstanding Ulster Cup ties Linfield v Ballymena Utd and Bangor v Ballyclare Comrades . |
| 21 | No dates have yet been fixed for the new clean show could it be that no one wants to hear it ? ! |
| 22 | Products from the former colonies of EC member states , they pointed out , were covered under the Lomé Convention , and similar measures had recently been agreed for the Andean Pact countries . |