Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] has been [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year .
3 A much fresher horse who has been trained for this all season is Brown Windsor , fourth two years ago .
4 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 .
5 Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for .
6 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 .
7 However , we have not been persuaded that it would be right to extend the special provision which has been made for the infected haemophiliacs .
8 Because if you do , you can not fail to be deeply impressed by the very many ways in which high-fibre foods can help you to slim , and to come to the conclusion that the F-Plan is that major slimming breakthrough everyone has been seeking for so long .
9 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 ?
10 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 .
11 The information ( about approximately 5,000 individuals ) has been stored in one computer file which has been developed for ease of access .
12 OFFLINE The package which has been requested for approval contains one or more modules which are currently offline .
13 PREPING Approval listings are currently being prepared for the package which has been requested for approval .
14 PREPED Approval listings have been prepared for the package which has been requested for approval .
15 The user has tried to activate a DC/DCs via a package which has been submitted for QA approval .
16 Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’
17 Wirral Council 's planning committee will tonight discuss the future of the 25-acre Bromb-orough Power Station site which has been earmarked for industrial use .
18 One particular aspect is the need which has been suggested for there to be a named actuary for each scheme available to monitor the finances of the scheme on a regular basis .
19 However , Great Ayton members wo n't miss out on the deal because his appearance there has been rescheduled for Sunday , March 1 .
20 Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies .
21 We have been told for several centuries now that every child is naturally different and it is therefore wrong to impose on one the mould which has been prepared for others unlike it .
22 Authorities in Serbia again blocked a UN relief convoy which has been trying for days to reach the besieged Muslim enclave of Srebrenica .
23 For example , a DC which has been submitted for approval with a package reverts to ‘ active ’ state if the package approval is denied )
24 A further example is when an organisation which has been trading for many decades finds itself increasingly out of touch with the market and the organisation 's internal culture and style is no longer appropriate to the markets it is trying to address .
25 The price which has been paid for the lower rate of tax on income has been the additional National Insurance charge and also the locking up of the profits in excess of the salary of £43,500 as retained profit in the company .
26 One anthropologist who has been noted for attempting to retain a balance between objectivist and subjectivist analysis is Pierre Bourdieu .
27 ( a ) Children in need Section 20(1) requires every local authority : to provide accommodation for any child in need within their area who appears to them to require accommodation as a result of : ( a ) there being no person who has parental responsibility for him ; ( b ) his being lost or having been abandoned ; or ( c ) the person who has been caring for him being prevented ( whether or not permanently , and for whatever reason ) from providing him with suitable accommodation or care .
28 Indeed , it would seem that the purpose for the inclusion of this paragraph in Part I of Schedule 1 is to prevent a person who has been arrested for breach of a condition of his bail from claiming that he is entitled to bail despite that breach of condition , because none of the matters set out in paragraph 2 of that Part of the Schedule apply to his case .
29 That is the area which has been used for the last five or six years as the basis of the And that outer boundary more or less coincides with the outer boundary erm of the York greenbelt .
30 I am often asked to lead seminars on a topic which has been chosen for me and has a ti tie like ‘ coming to terms with our own mortality ’ .
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