Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [verb] be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor patients/parent compliance has been blamed for less than ideal results in major series on constipation in children . |
| 2 | Well Dennis er Roger 's been doing for it for Leeds North West have n't you ? |
| 3 | Khatami 's resignation had been rumoured for some months , as conservative newspapers had accused him of " leniency " towards the " corrupt , Westernized " Iranian intellectuals and artists , especially those in exile . |
| 4 | Darlington health authority 's budget has been frozen for the next four years prompting a review of spending priorities . |
| 5 | One of the problems is that the Government 's momentum to privatise was determined for ideological reasons and on a tight time scale . |
| 6 | Aideed 's fighters have been blamed for the June 5 killing of 23 Pakistani UN peacekeepers and the United Nations launched retaliatory air strikes on Saturday and Sunday . |
| 7 | If , and it was a very big ‘ if ’ , Riddle 's body had been substituted for the Scapegoat he felt sure that it was not as a convenient way of disposing of the body but to give more effective expression to the hatred which had inspired his killing . |
| 8 | London 's Victorian railway stations have been at the centre of the , now declining , spate of property development in the capital , as conveniently located derelict land and industrial/warehouse buildings have been exploited for new office accommodation . |
| 9 | Well you have to think , International Women 's Day has been going for just about a hundred years . |
| 10 | There was commotion in the hall when it was realized that Lenin 's heir had been adulated for so long against Lenin 's own better judgment . |
| 11 | A Consultant 's Register has been published for the first time , and the Technical Information Service successfully relaunched as the Construction Information File . |
| 12 | The main thrust of the council 's efforts had been to lobby for new housing , improve neighbourhood services and strengthen neighbourhood rapport . |
| 13 | Because Swans have belonged to the crown since Henry the eight 's day Dines was prosecuted for criminal damage to property … rather than animal cruelty which carries a lesser penalty . |
| 14 | Abingdon 's trade had been waning for some time , with its fulling mills lying in ruins and unemployment rife by 1538 . |
| 15 | James 's message had been meant for herself , an oblique way of saying that he was no longer interested . |
| 16 | John 's firm having been established for nearly forty years by this time , the rival Lawrence Girls were definitely more earthy in character , with not a snob amongst them possibly because they did not have such a long tradition . |
| 17 | This had in fact been an important focus since the early 1980s , even before the start of the classification research project , and the IPG 's approach has been adopted for all new and rewritten items . |
| 18 | Since Gooding 's detention in Coney Hill , the city 's MP has been campaigning for his transfer to more secure premises . |
| 19 | We may regret some inevitable omissions — but a fair conspectus of Ferrier 's repertory has been preserved for posterity with the one great regret — the absence of her Angel in Gerontius , which I heard her sing under Barbirolli so memorably at the 1952 Edinburgh Festival . |
| 20 | Long 's health had been deteriorating for years , but he had kept open his channels of communication ; like Law his influence was based on years of devotion to the interests of the party , and like Law 's that influence had been used to argue the case for coalition . |
| 21 | They all got into the train , though Dean 's idea had been to head for Epping , but it was as well to be on the safe side . |
| 22 | McTear 's version of Garvey 's system has been adapted for this purpose with the addition of one category — the potential request for specification — which our data seemed to demand . |
| 23 | From all that he heard , it was clear that Gaddafi 's position had been secured for him in a way that his palace guard and secret police could never have managed on their own . |
| 24 | Columbia 's payload has been waiting for a shuttle ride since nineteen eighty six . |
| 25 | Andrew 's family has been trying for three years to get treatment for him . |
| 26 | Campsfield House , a former young offenders ' institution has been refurbished for the Immigration Service . |
| 27 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 28 | This will bring in reforms of the kind which the Consumers ' Association have been campaigning for over many a long year . |