Example sentences of "[been] [verb] for an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Permission has been given for an 18-hole golf course at the Redworth Hall Hotel , near Heighington . |
| 3 | Opposition parties had also been pressing for an early poll , especially in view of the poor performance by ANAP in local elections since 1989 [ see p. 36528 ] . |
| 4 | Because of its concerns about the consultants ' figures , convention officials have been pressing for an urgent meeting of a joint Scottish Office-COSLA working party on finance since early February but that has not taken place . |
| 5 | The actors have been booked for an extended run at Bradford Royal Infirmary by the local hospital trust . |
| 6 | For years before that , however , football enthusiasts in Glasgow had long been agitating for an international match against the deaf footballers of England , without success . |
| 7 | His mind had been prepared for an impossible radiance and it had taken time to absorb a new set of signals . |
| 8 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 9 | Unless , therefore the guarantee was void as having been made for an illegal consideration or voidable on the ground of economic duress , the extrinsic evidence establishes that it was supported by valid consideration . |
| 10 | A CALL has been made for an empty building near a town centre to be turned into a nursery . |
| 11 | For years , American X-ray astronomers have been pushing for an Advanced X-ray Astrophysics facility ( AXAF ) which would have better sensitivity and resolution of detail , than all other X-ray telescopes presently planned . |
| 12 | Once patients had been seen for an initial consultation , half were treated within five weeks and 80 per cent within six months , she added . |
| 13 | His report called Transforming the Dinosaurs has been produced for an independent think tank group called DEMOS . |
| 14 | Any one of them might have been used for an unlawful occasion , but , if so , the most diligent inquiries failed to bring it to light . |
| 15 | The 70-bedroom Salutation Hotel , Perth , Scotland , one of the Embassy hotels bought by John Jarvis in 1990 , has been sold for an undisclosed sum to Strathmore Hotels . |
| 16 | The Bell Hotel in Church Street , Tewkesbury , has been sold for an undisclosed sum . |
| 17 | A judgement debt is where a debtor has been sued for an unpaid account and the court has found in favour of the creditor and issued judgement against the debtor . |
| 18 | There is nothing at all romantic about this sympathy for the underdog : as a midshipman , we are told , Aubrey had been disrated for an unsavoury escapade and had served a long period on the lower deck , an experience which he never forgot . |
| 19 | They 've been calling for an alternative route to the A 421 since World War Two . |
| 20 | He seemed to have been moving for an immeasurable time . |
| 21 | It has even been known for an esteemed binder 's ticket to be transferred from a battered volume to a more handsome specimen with which he had no demonstrable connection . |
| 22 | In addition , evidence has been provided for an active transport mechanism in the human intestinal mucosa . |
| 23 | If he has been arrested for an arrestable offence , there may also be a power to search his home under section 18 . |
| 24 | Agreements there have generally been concluded for an indefinite term and ( linked with this ) no ‘ peace obligation ’ has arisen by the application of the agreement , in contrast to Germany . |
| 25 | If the pupil has been excluded for an aggregate period of more than five days in any term or will miss an opportunity to take an examination as a result of his/her exclusion , the governors may order his reinstatement and the head has to comply . |
| 26 | If the pupil has not been excluded permanently , but his been excluded for an indefinite period , the governors can only order the head teacher to reinstate him/her if the aggregate period of exclusion would be more than five days in any term or if the pupil would miss an opportunity to take a public examination . |
| 27 | The alliance is a blow to the ruling Parti Socialiste of President François Mitterrand , which had been hoping for an electoral alliance with the Green parties . |
| 28 | I suspected that he was hoping to hear that the senator had been arranging for an illicit love affair on board Wavebreaker . |