Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | These Guidelines have been produced specifically for employees in the Department of Social Work . |
| 2 | The milkmen have been watching out for customers who lay their part in the community , are good neighbour , keep a watchful eye on elderly residents , or putting nuts out for the birds . |
| 3 | Anyway , a bumper crop of entries have been sent in for my perusal with a phenomenal response for the Hi-Tec and Elvira puzzlers so , waffling aside , let's see who the lucky pilchards are this time . |
| 4 | The Revenue treat the separation as likely to be permanent if the parties have been living apart for one year ( Pinson on Revenue Law , 17th edn , para 38 – 04 ) . |
| 5 | Approximate methods have been required therefore for any practical use of relaxation theory . |
| 6 | But in the past year German authorities withdrew approval for certain components which Cameron and some other hot-air balloon manufacturers have been using worldwide for the past 20 years . |
| 7 | If savings have been set aside for a funeral , and would now pay for one at current prices , that money , invested at the best rate of interest , may be enough to pay for the funeral when it occurs . |
| 8 | The scarves have been designed exclusively for the National Trust and cost £45 each . |
| 9 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |
| 10 | It is not the intention here to detail a course blueprint , partly because such prescriptiveness would stand in contradiction to the learner-centred tenet of primary practice , and partly because stimulating and informed models have been presented elsewhere for discussion ( Bullock , 1975 ; Hawkins , 1984 ; Sinclair , 1982 ) . |
| 11 | Australian mining companies have been pressing hard for the upgrade for the past 18 months but , ironically , demand for Landsat data in the last few months has dropped by 60 per cent . |
| 12 | Similar analyses have been carried out for the other major journals , and the full results are available in Will 1991 . |
| 13 | In addition to events previously announced , there will be a Virago Birthday Breakfast to get the conference off to a positive start on the Monday , and four more workshops have been firmed up for the afternoon : ‘ Goodbye to Gutenberg ’ ( speakers Tony Feldman , Japp Buchli of Scheltma Hokema Vermuelen , Paul Ayscough of Columbia TriStar and Michael Kemp of Franklin Electronic ) ; ‘ Targeting the Book Market ’ — The Role of Research ’ ( Peter Mouncey of the AA , Sue Morris of W H Smith and Leslie Henry of BML ) ; ‘ Financial Management for Booksellers ’ ( Ian Newman , Waterstones ) ; and ‘ Take Four Walls — Shop Design on a Budget ’ ( Barry Steadham , Insight Design ) . |
| 14 | No definitive explanations have been worked out for the differences between the two concentrations that lie 3000 kilometres apart in Antarctica . |
| 15 | Various explanations have been put forward for the existence of such large , complex setts and the presence of outlier setts . |
| 16 | Similar explanations have been put forward for the distributions of herbaceous plants , as in Ischnosiphon spp . |
| 17 | Those most in mind are the northern Roman frontiers of Britain where new ideas have been inhibited sometimes for years by premature conclusions based on minimal evidence . |
| 18 | Individual project boards have been set up for each area of market testing . |
| 19 | In particular , a limited number of bursaries have been set aside for mature students . |
| 20 | Professional counselling is the best way forward for you because your feelings have been bottled up for so long . |
| 21 | Five pubs worth seven hundred thousand pounds have been put up for auction by one of the big breweries . |
| 22 | Citalia customers have been coming here for over 30 years and find simple accommodation and furnishings — fresh and spotlessly kept . |
| 23 | Stories have been rejected outright for the simple reason that they were ‘ too middle-class ’ , though one editor was constructive enough to suggest the writer might want to replace ballet and riding classes with swimming and gymnastics . |
| 24 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 25 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 26 | Similar studies have been carried out for other countries , although the methods vary , reflecting the differences in availability of data and in fiscal systems . |
| 27 | A cheerful Durie confirmed : ‘ Things have been going well for me and Spurs in the last few weeks . |
| 28 | A great deal of technological work has been done recently on the seasoning of wood , and safe accelerated drying schedules have been worked out for all kinds and dimensions of timber . |
| 29 | Two stretch-limousines have been booked in for the party . |
| 30 | Many arguments have been put forward for a family perspective or policy statements to counter the apparently poor ‘ fit ’ between much existing social policy and significant social change ( Henwood and Wicks , 1988 ) . |