Example sentences of "[Wh det] have been [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these files contain sections of program instructions ( for example , LIB ) which have been split off for convenience . |
| 2 | ‘ Businesses which have been clinging on for months are now going over the edge . ’ |
| 3 | What is really amazing however is the routes which have been dreamed up for the Super-Sprinters , and which have taken off with growth factors unbelieved when first disclosed . |
| 4 | The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades . |
| 5 | In my view this country is filled with immense new moral forces which have been dammed back for ten years by the great dead bulk of the Labour Party Machine lying like a fallen tree across the road to progress . |
| 6 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 7 | The lessons are recorded so that the trainee 's performance can be reviewed and measured against criteria which have been set down for that skill . |
| 8 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 9 | It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world . |