Example sentences of "[been] [verb] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hardly listened to Mr Lessing 's explanation ; the tutor was his cousin , who had been intended for the Church but proved to have divergent views from his bishop , and had resigned . |
| 2 | Bales had been arranged for the jury as they had been on the night of the fire . |
| 3 | The invisibility that threatened her drove her to perform to attract attention , so she had done well at school , been picked for the hockey and the swimming teams . |
| 4 | These guidelines have been prepared for the information and guidance of staff in centres preparing and offering the National Certificate in Travel , and should be read in conjunction with the module descriptors . |
| 5 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 6 | There is no point in simply applying lower speed limits on residential roads if the drivers have not been prepared for the fact that they must slow down . |
| 7 | It had been destined for the pinacotheca but the dealer had had a soft spot for Charlotte . … |
| 8 | However , the High Court of Justiciary considered the supply of excisable liquor outwith the permitted hours where an extension of the permitted hours had been granted for the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor to persons taking a table meal , and the liquor had been supplied to persons who had not requested or been provided with a meal . |
| 9 | Parliamentary time has been made for the Bill and for amendment of the 1984 legislation . |
| 10 | Recommendations have been made for the legalisation and declassification of items formerly kept secret ; for their cataloguing ; their display on exhibition and the calculation of losses incurred by both parties . |
| 11 | In my view a good case has been made for the view that the learning processes involved in the formation of mating preference of humans have been subject to natural selection during the course of evolution . |
| 12 | They have set up an AIDS task force , which has been searching for the bug that causes the disease ; they suspect a virus . |
| 13 | It had been argued for the defendant that the payments had been made voluntarily to close the transaction , but Lord Reading held that payment under the type of pressure he had described was not so made . |
| 14 | Euro competition chief Sir Leon Brittan has been pushing for the guide since a survey found British cars were an average 59 per cent dearer than the cheapest Continental prices . |
| 15 | So far £40 has been offered for the ball and £5 for the framed picture . |
| 16 | No fee has yet been agreed for the player but it is expected to be in the region of £35,000 . |
| 17 | The 3½m budget has been agreed for the project and the first phase of the programme , costing approximately £500,000 , is due to be completed soon . |
| 18 | And so the lines had been drawn for the battle that still raged , feminists and FAMILY glaring balefully at each other over the dying body of the welfare state . |
| 19 | Cells in North Yorkshire have also been used for the operation and there are currently 28 prisoners locked up in the region 's jails . |
| 20 | Nato has also been used for the neck and fingerboard and while the overall appearance of the SW213 wo n't compete with more expensive instruments it 's quite good enough for a 100 quid guitar . |
| 21 | Rosewood has been used for the fingerboard and bridge , and the machineheads are once again Grovers . |
| 22 | They 've been bought for the fact that all over the country there 's all these holes in the wall and people are putting up shelves , building furniture or whatever . |
| 23 | IBM noted that Zschau had been tapped for the post before Louis Gerstner came aboard as its new chairman , and said that there were no plans to offer AdStar shares to the public . |
| 24 | Alan Sillitoe 's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner has been adapted for the stage and is going on tour throughout Scotland in May and June during the Mayfest and Perth festivals . |
| 25 | The signs are similar for like Boggy Peak , Bassetja has been trained for the race and is the only member of Maxwell 's string in serious work at the moment . |
| 26 | My purpose has been to account for the rise and consolidation of amateurism rather than to catalogue its contemporary decline . |
| 27 | The instructor 's braking would have been required for the stopping if the pupil had not braked . |
| 28 | Similar labelling index distributions have been published for the dog and in the rat , as reviewed in . |
| 29 | This particular airfield had been chosen for the test-flight because it was surrounded by open country , and there in front of me were fields from which I could choose . |