Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have been [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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1 | It was the story of a lifetime , the story I had been born for . |
2 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |
3 | As the car which has been sent for him comes in along the odd little elevated motorway , only four lanes wide , most of the city seems to be below eye-level . |
4 | There was of course no longer need for missio , a remedy which had been designed for equitable reasons to allow a trust beneficiary to triumph over the constraints imposed by the limitation of trust protection to remedies in personam . |
5 | Wickham turned his attention to the typewriter which had been used for the death threat . |
6 | A much fresher horse who has been trained for this all season is Brown Windsor , fourth two years ago . |
7 | But behind the make-up there still lies a razor sharp intellectual who has been quoted for the past several years as one of the top 100 lawyers in the US . |
8 | The contract which has been signed for the fight will be honoured , though , and a new date will be sought for the spring in Glasgow . |
9 | Before the Christmas break , we fitted in two more FIS downhills at Altenmarkt , on a course which had been used for a women 's world cup . |
10 | However , we have not been persuaded that it would be right to extend the special provision which has been made for the infected haemophiliacs . |
11 | Before the second Dutch war they argued for parliamentary control of the revenue destined for the war , and during the session of 1666–7 Garway was in the forefront of the group 's attacks on government corruption , proposing a statutory committee to examine the accounts of the money which had been given for the war with the Dutch . |
12 | The LIFESPAN user name and password which have been allocated for the work about to be done must now be entered . |
13 | James decided to concentrate his efforts on subduing Londonderry , but in the end had to ride back , damp and disappointed , to Dublin , where , on 26 April , as he wrote in his memoirs , ‘ he found the arms not arrived from Cork , Kinsale or Waterford ; and that in the arsenal nothing had been done for preparing of tools ’ . |
14 | Going back to the scene of the Crucifixion , do you think that you could add something to a scene which has been treated for almost 2000 years ? |
15 | But for this House to depart from a rule relating to land law which has been established for many centuries might upset long established titles . |
16 | In her days as a schoolteacher she 'd been known for the quickness of her wit and her clarity of thought . |
17 | This traditional story tells of a boy who had been substituted for the smith 's own son who had been taken away by fairies . |
18 | There followed a frantic exchange of telegrams between Rangoon and Whitehall in which the Governor offered various solutions to the prevailing deadlock , finally coming up with the unexpected suggestion that a new coalition ministry was possible with Paw Tun , the last premier of Burma before the invasion ; U Saw , his predecessor as premier , an unscrupulous schemer who had been interned for dealing with the Japanese ; and Aung San , previously portrayed by Dorman-Smith as a murderer and an enemy . |
19 | She was a quietly-spoken old lady who had been retired for seven years . |
20 | The girl who had been selected for me by Miss Sowerby never turned up . |
21 | The catalyst for the rioting was the decision by an all-white jury to acquit four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ) on charges arising from the beating of Rodney King , a motorist who had been stopped for traffic violations . |
22 | Nell guessed from the centrifuges and freezers what type of work they had been designed for . |
23 | By the time of Fritz and Hitzig 's work it had been known for nearly a century that electrical stimulation of nervous tissue would produce movements . |
24 | Any Palestinian who had been arrested for " security violations " would be barred . |
25 | All I wanted was to be left alone to get on with the job I 'd been trained for and loved . |
26 | The information ( about approximately 5,000 individuals ) has been stored in one computer file which has been developed for ease of access . |
27 | OFFLINE The package which has been requested for approval contains one or more modules which are currently offline . |
28 | PREPING Approval listings are currently being prepared for the package which has been requested for approval . |
29 | PREPED Approval listings have been prepared for the package which has been requested for approval . |
30 | The user has tried to activate a DC/DCs via a package which has been submitted for QA approval . |