Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] been [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Lords has asked whether it is sex discrimination , contrary to Directive 76/207/EEC , to dismiss a female employee when she has been engaged for the specific purpose of replacing ( after training ) another female employee who is about to go on maternity leave and when the maternity leave replacement discovers very shortly after appointment that she too is pregnant and will need maternity leave and the employer dismisses her because he needs the job holder to be at work during that period . |
| 2 | Although she always wanted to be a writer , the theatre has claimed a lot of her energy ( she has been nominated for an Emmy and a Tony award ) . |
| 3 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 4 | She has been sidestepped for the chief slot on News At Ten , been desperately ill and has now been chopped from her Focus On Britain spot . |
| 5 | She 's been speaking for the first time on camera following her release from prison , exclusively to Central News . |
| 6 | Instead , she 's been saved for the moment by an old-fashioned storyteller , worth millions — George Lucas of Star Wars . |
| 7 | Since she left school she 's been working for the Fish Co-operative in Stockholm Backs , not far from Riddle 's yard . ’ |
| 8 | She 's been admitted for a D and C. ’ |
| 9 | Now that she 's been nominated for an Oscar , it would be natural for there to be competition between them . |
| 10 | She 's been missing for a week , was going to marry a rising Minister , successful career , everything coming up roses . |
| 11 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 12 | A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal . |
| 13 | ‘ He has been calling for a … ’ he glanced importantly at his notebook ‘ … |
| 14 | The vicar calls for silence for the ‘ Lord Mayor ’ , who makes a short speech declaring he has been elected for a year and a day . |
| 15 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 16 | Romany King who was second has a great chance for he has been trained for the race by Toby Balding and will have the assistance of Adrian Maguire the big race specialist . |
| 17 | He has been seconded for a year , and his beat is construction , property and hotels . |
| 18 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 19 | By the exhausted mechanical sound of it he has been sobbing for a long time . |
| 20 | If he has been arrested for an arrestable offence , there may also be a power to search his home under section 18 . |
| 21 | He will himself present new data on the cohort of doctors he has been studying for the past 40 years , while his colleagues will review current knowledge on some of the many other topics that he has studied — including the effects on health of oral contraceptives , the parts played by radiation and by asbestos in various cancers , and patterns and trends in mortality . |
| 22 | Although he has had his feet under the desk only since January , he has been preparing for the job since last summer by meeting researchers and officials , visiting institutes abroad and drawing up an initial draft of his plans . |
| 23 | He has been booked for a series . |
| 24 | ‘ You can imagine what a spell in the Army would have meant for someone who values his fingers as a pianist , so when I came back home I got in touch with some people and now he has been booked for a number of festivals , ’ Alan tells me . |
| 25 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 26 | So far it has been implemented for the 68000 , 88000 , R-Series and Sparc processors . |
| 27 | Four times it has been birdied for a one-stroke victory , the most impressive being Sandy Lyle 's wonderful second shot from sand in 1988 . |
| 28 | As an example of discourse analysis data , it has been selected for a particular purpose . |
| 29 | They face another five years in opposition and Labour will have another inquest into why it has been rejected for a fourth time . |
| 30 | From the statement " It has been raining for an hour in Chicago " , for example , we are able to infer , using our knowledge of the real world , that the streets of Chicago are wet . |