Example sentences of "[vb base] be [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been dogged by humbug for years , ’ he told me . |
| 2 | I have been prepared for death for many years . ’ |
| 3 | Whilst computing was the cowboy contractors in in order for our members to keep their jobs hours have been cut , bonuses have been cut and arrangements for a working year have been changed and many many other things have been altered in order for people to save their jobs within local authority services . |
| 4 | Seven Egyptian terrorists have been sentenced to death for their part in the murder of a British nurse . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , I know a few Romanies have been sent to prison for poaching — but so have a great many gorgios . |
| 6 | Chimpanzees have been reared in darkness for varying periods after birth in order to test their subsequent perceptual capacity . |
| 7 | In many respects the management of GEAR has been ineffective : goals have been defined too broadly , simply to ensure consensus ; organizations have been assimilated within GEAR for purely cosmetic purposes ; power has been too diffuse ; and too much has been made of environmental improvements when the local economy has been subject to dramatic changes and unemployment has risen substantially . |
| 8 | One problem is that key settlements have been seen as panacea for all rural problems , irrespective of social and regional context . |
| 9 | All patients from that practice who have been admitted to any department of Bassetlaw Hospital ( except the units of psychiatry and paediatrics , which have their own similar systems ) have been assessed on admission for their likely needs on discharge . |
| 10 | It is true that over the years a few railway signalmen have been convicted of manslaughter for wrongful acts and omissions leading to fatal train crashes , but there is not the natural resort to the criminal law which is now a feature of road-traffic cases . |
| 11 | Considerable investments have been made in equipment for DTP and publication graphics from 1989/90 to 1993/93 , but the staffing to take advantage of these systems has only increased by one half-post in the same time . |
| 12 | These have been kept at bay for 40 years by the power and special pleading of the vested interests who are right now busily working out how to control the new Heritage Agency . |
| 13 | For each study , the conclusions on each future studied have been categorized into support for Samuelson , contradiction of Samuelson , and no relationship between price volatility and maturity . |
| 14 | June Smith 's daughter , Tracey and her children have been treated in hospital for shock . |
| 15 | MS-DOS and Windows requesters supporting TCP/IP networks have been added to InterBase for third parties and developers interested in SQL access to InterBase . |
| 16 | This shortcoming can be explained in part by the alleged deficiencies of the respective approaches ( social administrators have been criticized for their less than rigorous historical investigations ( Thane , 1992 ) whilst historians have been taken to task for their reluctance to engage in broad theoretical debate ) . |
| 17 | It would restrict actions to existing tort law and would reproduce the problems which have been encountered with liability for omissions . |
| 18 | Er , I understand there was problem because of the computer breakdown which caused a certain record to be lost but then I discover that there is no copy of man manual copy of orders sent to the contractors for repairs kept so that having lost the computer record the council do not know what lights have been reported to contractor for repair and then find out the basic clients |
| 19 | Although US unions have been associated with support for the Democratic Party , the politicians and policies they have backed have by no means been the most socialist of those on offer . |
| 20 | Nick Farr-Jones , the Wallabies ' scrum-half and captain , and Hugo Porta , the 38-year-old former Argentine stand-off , have been paired at half-back for Stanley 's XV in the annual match against Oxford University . |
| 21 | Nationalised industries have been accused of inefficiency for a variety of reasons . |
| 22 | The following guidelines on sponsorship have been approved by Council for the Assistance of Branches and Chapters . |
| 23 | Welcome back : The last remaining personal possessions of Robert Maxwell have been sold at auction for about half a million pounds . |
| 24 | Local housing authorities have been starved of cash for a number of years by the Government . |
| 25 | Even so , Tory MPs have been put on standby for a three-line whip on Thursday seen by some as contingency plans for a possible defeat tomorrow . |
| 26 | According to SAG , current specification development for technology enhancements will continue , but new technology projects have been put on hold for at least 18 months to two years . |
| 27 | Taking a leave of absence , SAG says all work on versions three , four and five of the SQL specification have been put on hold for the next nine months . |
| 28 | Exactly what arrangements have been put in place for more than 10,000 members to vote on proposals suggested by the STG management board ? |