Example sentences of "[been] [verb] for a [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 | A LIFEBOAT crew has been honoured for a daring rescue on the Cleveland coast . |
| 5 | The Redcar crew have already been honoured for a daring rescue earlier this year . |
| 6 | She had been intended for a respectable life . |
| 7 | This has been recognized for a long time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You would have been forgiven for a knowing smile then , but now acid rain is no laughing matter . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A barricade of flagstones prised up from the floor had been erected for a final stand and the Collector , snatching a moment to look back towards it , was dismayed to see that the other party was already behind it , thus leaving himself and his men exposed on the flank . |
| 12 | Moving right up to date , Johnny is now signed to Virgin 's Point Blank label , and his first release — titled ‘ Let Me In ’ — has already been nominated for a Grammy award . |
| 13 | THE MAN whose effort and vision was behind the creation of Theatr Clwyd has been nominated for a top award . |
| 14 | London Ambulance Service workers claimed the system crash last October led to people 's deaths , but yesterday 's document said an examination of 26 cases considered by coroners ' courts showed the LAS had not been blamed for a single death . |
| 15 | Of course , it should be remembered that s3 subjects the terms to which it applies to a test of reasonableness , and where individual terms have been varied for a particular customer ( situation ( a ) ) , or where the terms have been approved by a trade association ( situation ( b ) ) or negotiated between the parties ( situation ( e ) ) they are more likely to satisfy the test of reasonableness . |
| 16 | Will he further confirm that he and his right hon. and hon. Friends in the Scottish Office have been recommended for a Scottish tourism award for their determination to self-destruct in Scotland ? |
| 17 | The homogeneity of the three groups has been reported for a wide variety of preoperative variables including age , sex , type of fluid , allergy , seasonal variation , radiographic determination of the size of the adenoids and postnasal space , and duration of preoperative loss of hearing . |
| 18 | The two British fighters have been tipped for a multi-million pound British showdown since Bruno 's boxing licence was renewed 14 months ago , and the prospect gathered pace last week when Lewis was crowned WBC champion . |
| 19 | The move marks a first step into Europe by Tesco , which has been tipped for a Euro deal for some time . |
| 20 | The engineering unions have been pressing for a 35-hour working week , but the deal at NEI — a subsidiary of Rolls-Royce — would satisfy their claim for a two-hour reduction in the working week . |
| 21 | He has already been stripped of all his posts , but hardliners had been pressing for a public trial on criminal charges , though this looks unlikely . |
| 22 | He said Thompson had been involved in a traffic accident in which he had suffered a head injury and been concussed for a short time . |
| 23 | Smyth had earlier been booked for a nasty tackle on Cunningham . |
| 24 | Cripps , Laski and Strauss , who had been booked for a speaking tour in " Labour 's Crusade Week " , refused to continue their tour until Mellor had been endorsed . |
| 25 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
| 26 | Obviously a tall , long-legged person will need a big horse ; I recently sold a 17.3hh gelding to a man of six foot eight who had been looking for a long time ! |
| 27 | Morgan has been looking for a white knight for the last two weeks since insurance broker Willis Faber announced it was selling its 20 per cent stake in the merchant bank to Banque Indosuez , part of Compagnie Financiere de Suez . |
| 28 | I had been looking for a full-length piece to do anyway and I was also attracted to the idea of working with a ballet company . ’ |
| 29 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 30 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |