Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adv] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This company , in turn , departed , and by the 1970s , Millbottom had been partially converted for domestic use . |
| 2 | The plutonium , the first of an estimated 30-40 tonnes processed in Europe from spent Japanese uranium fuel , had been officially designated for commercial use to fire a new generation of Japanese fast-breeder reactors . |
| 3 | The racial mixture was soon to be sharpened , as the mid-century railway boom got under way , by new waves of immigrants from Ireland , the Forest of Dean , Herefordshire , and Somerset , but already the social , political , and religious pattern of the new South Wales and the eastern valleys of Monmouthshire had been firmly set for another century . |
| 4 | Although no one had been hanged in Ireland since 1954 and capital punishment had been abolished for most categories of murder in 1964 [ see p. 19227 ] , it had been nominally retained for those categories specified above . |
| 5 | Aden was at that time an RAF command , in which the operational policy of air control had been successfully applied for some years . |
| 6 | Last year the council called in the police to investigate claims that council-owned building materials had been allegedly misappropriated for private use . |
| 7 | He took her arm and led her to the dining room , where the gleaming long rectangular table had been impeccably set for two . |
| 8 | She was sure he would run for it : she had been fully prepared for that . |
| 9 | He had been fully retired for three years and happily occupied with reading and local committee work before Pat retired as home help supervisor for a London borough . |
| 10 | The lower limb , said Lovejoy , had been totally reorganised for upright walking and there were no compensatory modifications in the upper limb to suggest the creature was still partly arboreal . |
| 11 | The Committee drew attention to the fact that during the experiment fewer Members had been formally penalised for bad behaviour than in several recent sessions , and reported that neither the Speaker nor the Community had any evidence that rowdiness had significantly increased ; on the possible long-term effect , early evidence was ‘ mildly encouraging ’ . |
| 12 | Nature , produced by Robin Hellier , has a lot of pace as did Horizon 's The Geneva event ( BBC2 , 24 January ) What the latter did not have was much patience with the aspirant but relatively unlearned student of what is going on in the world of high energy physics The main Geneva event — the identification of the W subatomic particle which , with the Z , will enable the theory that the four fundamental forces of nature can be unified within a single framework to be sustained — has yet to be announced , though it is believed imminent Horizon had been patiently filming for four years . |
| 13 | The Teds took their name from the ‘ Edwardian ’ dress-style which had been originally promoted for fashion-conscious city gents who wished to cut an affluent fifties dash . |