Example sentences of "[been] [verb] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time . |
| 2 | The purpose of an audit mark or stamp on clients ' documents is twofold : it provides evidence that the document has been examined for a particular purpose ( which should be clear from the audit file ) ; and it helps to avoid the document 's being re-presented as support for a duplicate entry . |
| 3 | The main advantage of panels is that they provide feedback over a period of time , which increases the reliability of their responses compared with people who may have been stopped for a brief interview outside their local supermarket , for example . |
| 4 | Police violence against members of racial minorities became a national issue following the widespread broadcast on television of an amateur video showing white Los Angeles policemen brutally beating a black man who had been stopped for an alleged driving offence on March 3 . |
| 5 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 6 | A LIFEBOAT crew has been honoured for a daring rescue on the Cleveland coast . |
| 7 | The Redcar crew have already been honoured for a daring rescue earlier this year . |
| 8 | She had been intended for a respectable life . |
| 9 | More important , he set about gathering the Wordsworths into the Quantock fold , hastening a visit which must in any case have been intended for the near future . |
| 10 | This has been recognized for a long time . |
| 11 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 12 | Mr Lindsey said that , from 5 January , S&P were offering a variable Tessa paying an initial 7.5% , against the fixed rate version at 5.875% , which is slightly higher than the average that S&P , as a group , has been forecasting for the financial year beginning in April 1993 . |
| 13 | Second , the fall in unemployment adds something to the theory that the economy has in fact been recovering for a good deal longer than generally realised . |
| 14 | A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal . |
| 15 | Timetables have not yet been adjusted for the higher performance of the Class 158s and the journey time to London remains at about 5 hours . |
| 16 | A 7 day tour to Poland , open to CIT members , spouses , and colleagues has been arranged for the first week of July , boasting a programme , both transport orientated and cultural . |
| 17 | Gorbachev , speaking at the closing ceremony , acknowledged that there were basic disagreements between the two sides , but thought the meeting had created ‘ opportunities for progress ’ ; Reagan thought that ‘ useful preliminary results ’ had been achieved , and hoped that further progress would be achieved at the meeting that had been arranged for the following year . |
| 18 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |
| 19 | There , temporary accommodation had been arranged for the rescued sect personnel in the local church hall and community centre , and for the captured heavies in the town jailhouse . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You would have been forgiven for a knowing smile then , but now acid rain is no laughing matter . |
| 22 | A new method has been developed for the current project which attempts to provide a much simplified morphological system with little increase in the storage requirements and remove the errors permitted by the affix-stripping methods . |
| 23 | Should the elective resolution cease to have effect , if the authority has lasted for 5 years or more before the election it expires forthwith : otherwise it has effect as if it had been given for a fixed period of 5 years . |
| 24 | Members heard funding had been given for a fourth ear , nose and throat surgeon . |
| 25 | As my hon. Friend rightly said , the construction of the 08 , the fourth boat , is currently under way and authorities have been given for the long lead items . |
| 26 | The prizewinner was presented with a cup , which had been given for the first time in 1987 . |
| 27 | Now pressures are such that consent has finally been given for the southern by-pass , a scheme first proposed in 1916 . |
| 28 | Most of the figures that have been given for the projected growth of the presentation graphics market in this country , and Europe as a whole , seem to be based on the assumption that there will be a significant change towards the use of 35mm slides . |
| 29 | Several reasons have been given for the rapid growth of the professions . |
| 30 | Permission has been given for an 18-hole golf course at the Redworth Hall Hotel , near Heighington . |