Example sentences of "[conj] has been [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is one particular practice that has been singled out for special treatment and that is resale price maintenance . |
| 2 | On top of this , the environmental time bomb that has been ticking away for years now seems ready to explode . |
| 3 | In Frome there was one more natural disaster to come before the year was out : the afternoon of September 17th saw ‘ One of the highest floods that has been remembered perhaps for these 20 years ’ , according to Crocker . |
| 4 | Over the next two weeks , it will be mailing details about the initiative through to its customers , including the new 0800 number that has been set up for anyone wishing to give or receive information about piracy . |
| 5 | There is no point in ransacking the cellar for the finest bottled sunshine that has been put away for the special occasion . |
| 6 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 7 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 8 | The relationship between cash crops , particularly those for export , and subsistence crops for local consumption , has occasioned an intense and sometimes bitter debate that has been going on for decades , if not centuries , and goes to the very heart of the global capitalist system and its transnational contradictions . |
| 9 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 10 | Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years . |
| 11 | One of the examples of work in progress discusses research that has been carried out for the European Commission as part of the CORINE Project . |
| 12 | This reverberation unit is based on a c.c.d. delay line that has been designed specifically for operation in reverberation circuits . |
| 13 | ‘ This has been a subject that has been bubbling around for years and with an ageing population , it is an issue that has n't been talked about enough . ’ |
| 14 | The story of mud is one of a resource that has been excluded not for technical but for social reasons . |
| 15 | The man behind the take-over bid is understood to be a key figure in the Jersey tourist industry and has been trying unsuccessfully for years to get a Channel Island summer soccer tournament off the ground . |
| 16 | The British Standard BS 6652 for child resistance is granted to specific combinations of bottle and cap and has been given only for some makes of closures on BS 1679 bottles , which are the ones we use in this hospital . |
| 17 | This report has been provided by KPMG Peat Marwick and has been prepared solely for the purpose of providing selected information on a confidential basis to professional investors . |
| 18 | Mark ‘ Zippy ’ Pretty has finally got over his mid-life crisis by red-pointing Mecca at Raven Tor , and has been celebrating continuously for the last six weeks . |
| 19 | If I take one example as more updated version of Hammett and Chandler , one of the most successful writers I think in financial terms in America since the Second World War has been a man called Kenneth Miller , who writes under the name of Ross Macdonald , and has been turning out for , oh , the best part of thirty years now , novels about a Californian private eye called Lou Archer . |
| 20 | For him the Dutch Texel is the original Texel ; it comes from the island of Texel and has been bred there for many generations . |
| 21 | The second involves the settling of cells onto a slide surface through a sucrose , saline or other solution , and has been used principally for oocytes , but may be useful for spermatocytes if only a thin suspension is available . |
| 22 | You raise the possibility of a continuous loop presentation video : the idea is not a new one but has been put aside for the moment because of the high costs involved in making such an item . |