Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , money wages , interest rates and-tax payments have all been adjusted to allow for the 10 per cent rise in the average level of prices . |
| 2 | A National Parliamentary Movement ( MNP ) of 19 parties had been formed to campaign for the early adoption of a parliamentary system , which could mean severely curtailing Collor 's powers . |
| 3 | A number of mechanisms have been implicated to account for the adverse effect of thiazide diuretics on lipid metabolism , which include reduced lipoprotein lipase activity secondary to the decrease in insulin action ( Grimm et al , 1981 ) . |
| 4 | For the celebration , soldiers of his Army had been forbidden to shave for the last month so that their faced would more nearly represent those of warriors of old . |
| 5 | Roger Bootle , chief economist at stockbrokers Greenwell Montagu , said yesterday : ‘ I think the recovery has been waiting to happen for the last couple of months . |
| 6 | Various explanations have been advanced to account for the occupational rewards of professionals . |
| 7 | er until , until the end and they had a poll of er who who has been persuaded to vote for the three la , you know , what had they done |
| 8 | I mean it seems a bit ironic in that how that what the Communist Party had been striving to eliminate for the past twenty years , they 're now going back to recreating differences in society , but the most fundamental change is that how feudalism has gone . |
| 9 | Mark West , 26 , of St James ' Close has been appointed to work for the British Embassy , in Ankara , Turkey . |
| 10 | Students due to enter the school that year had already been asked to volunteer for the parallel track , so two cohorts existed — those who had expressed a preference for the new approach and those who had not . |
| 11 | The data shown in the tables have been weighted to allow for the 50 Tory marginals ' over-representation in the total sample . |
| 12 | I 've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour , and I ca n't . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been trying to go for the last half-hour , ’ he whispered , ‘ but you wo n't let go of my neck ! ’ |
| 14 | This has a shuffling joss-sticky booga-booga spook beat and a strange haircut ; this is the record that Pop Will Eat Itself have been trying to make for the past 24 months , the grinning idiot love-child of Mr Desmond Drugmusic and Mrs Winnie Indiewhine brought up in a radical lesbian commune in Vancouver , Canada and fed on a diet of black pudding and Ecstasy . |
| 15 | There then appeared a chink of light when we were advised by Mr F. Musgrave of Saintfield that he wished to sell the site of the former Ballynahinch Junction Station , a site which the Trust had been trying to secure for the past 20 years . |