Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] have [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason that brought that four hundred thousand pounds stems from the Tory revolt and the pressure by the group , the Tories , the rebellious ones , on the Government through our Chief Executive to fight our case , through a completely Sir Humphrey scenario , to get some more money and a better deal for west Oxfordshire , and that 's been achieve for some measure . |
| 2 | Er , but the interesting , the interesting thing is that they are prepared to pay and yet this obsession this obsession with this ideology that the only way you can get you can go forward in in terms of er placing this this country in any economic status in the way it may have been and er is is to privatisation of V A T. Chairman I look forward to the day when when the very air and this has been said for that we breathe will either be privatised or more important they 'll stick a bloody V A T on it . |
| 3 | Thus , while most winters produce short cold snaps which have been accepted as part of the normal pattern , the effects of the quite exceptionally severe winters of early 1947 , 1956 , and 1963 have been allowed for when making comparisons . |
| 4 | Questions 1 and 4 have been done for you . |
| 5 | A Nottingham car salesman who went with two prostitutes aged fourteen and fifteen has been jailed for three years . |
| 6 | A Nottingham car salesman who went with two prostitutes aged fourteen and fifteen has been jailed for three years . |
| 7 | Some 90,000 have been dismissed from their jobs for political reasons and thousands have been imprisoned for long sentences . |
| 8 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 9 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 10 | There should have been a large timber column but this had been removed for some reason many years ago and led to the roof sagging some 4 ’ . |
| 11 | But all had been prepared for them . |
| 12 | A few have become derelict as smaller farms have been taken over by the larger conglomerates but many have been restored for non-farming families : that is , those which have not got past the point of no return after being left open to the four winds for too many years ; fit only for pigeon habitation . |
| 13 | About half of the patients had been waiting for their notes for less than six weeks , but 19 had been waiting for over six months , 14 for over a year , and six for over two years . |