Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five years The tenant 's right to compensation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37 , may be excluded or modified by agreement unless : ( 1 ) during the whole of the five years immediately preceding the date on which the tenant , under a tenancy to which the Act applies is to quit the holding , premises being or comprised in the holding have been occupied for the purposes of a business carried on by the occupier or for those and other purposes ; and ( 2 ) if , during those five years , there was a change in the occupier of the premises , the new occupier was a successor to the business carried on by the old occupier ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1958 , s38(2) , ( 3 ) ) . |
| 2 | Fourteen years The tenant will be entitled ( in certain circumstances ) to compensation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37 , equal to the production of the appropriate multiplier and twice the rateable value of the holding if : ( 1 ) during the whole of the fourteen years immediately preceding the termination of his tenancy , premises being or comprised in the holding have been occupied for the purposes of a business carried on by the occupier or for those and other purposes ; and ( 2 ) if during those fourteen years , there was a change in the occupier of the premises , the new occupier was the successor to the business carried on by the old occupier ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37(2) , ( 3 ) ) . |
| 3 | Local lawyers , police and judiciary have been primed for the test case by a series of seminars organised in conjunction with BSA Europe . |
| 4 | ‘ Rail services in the North-East have been deteriorating for a number of years with reduced frequencies , later first trains and earlier last trains , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Two men who raided a supermarket after kidnapping the supervisor and her husband at gunpoint have been jailed for a total of twelve years . |
| 6 | As clerk to the local Parish Council I should like to point out that Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have been asking for a footpath along this stretch of highway for the last twenty years . |
| 7 | The degree to which opportunities for either vertical or horizontal career mobility have been developed for the paraprofessional social service worker is highly variable among the countries we studied and between geographic areas within these countries . |
| 8 | " No prahus can put to sea before the black goat of stability and the white cock of courage have been sacrificed for a safe journey . |
| 9 | You and your wife have been separated for a continuous two-year period , and you both agree to the divorce . |
| 10 | The majority of the works of art have been restored for the occasion of this exhibition , which has been coordinated by the Department of Museums in the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation under Vera Lebedeva . |
| 11 | The government said that it was clear that Mr Athulathmudali was yet another victim of the Tigers , who for more than a decade have been fighting for a separate Tamil state on the island . |
| 12 | This is primarily due to process integration — eg filtration and drying have been combined for the first time in the Pergascript operation . |
| 13 | Where , in Persuasion , the younger Musgroves ' search for novelty gets them into trouble , other new ventures meet with approval , like Emma 's introduction into Hartfield of a large modern circular table , as in Fig. 7b , in place of the smaller portable Pembroke ( Fig. 41a ) on to which her father 's tea and supper have been crowded for the previous forty years . |
| 14 | Two brick arches put up to channel the waters of an underground river have been uncovered for the first time in nearly two hundred years . |
| 15 | Nitrate concentrations in rainwater have been increasing for the past seven years . |
| 16 | Old Trafford , Headingley and The Oval have been chosen for a pilot study by the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 17 | ‘ The contents of this statement have been approved for the purposes of Section 57 of the Financial Services Act 1986 by KPMG Peat Marwick which is authorised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales to carry on investment business . |
| 18 | Imports of subsidised coal have been blamed for the closure of Parkside . |
| 19 | Electric lighting and heating have been installed for the first time , but all fittings have been concealed as much as possible and all the original oil lamps and 19th century pews have been retained . |
| 20 | Now , so far er , the acquisitions that have come onto the market have n't really reflected er , the trading conditions in which all companies in this country have been operating for the last eighteen months . |
| 21 | False positive results with a persistently elevated creatine kinase activity have been reported for the dominantly inherited but benign blood anomaly in which the creatine kinase BB isoenzyme is elevated in erythrocytes and thrombocytes . |
| 22 | More than 140 acres of gardens and theme park have been created for a summer 's bloom on the debris of the industrial revolution . |
| 23 | More important , he set about gathering the Wordsworths into the Quantock fold , hastening a visit which must in any case have been intended for the near future . |
| 24 | Stable buildings at the rear of the Manor House have been converted for the display of reptiles , amphibians and fishes . |
| 25 | ‘ This is particularly true in the area of the trial , which is close to Peldon , where resistant strains of blackgrass have been seen for a number of years . |
| 26 | 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 ? |