Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been racing around for most of the day . |
| 2 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |
| 3 | She said people receiving the letter should not worry that they have been singled out for any genuine reason . |
| 4 | The Cavaliers and Roundheads have been stocking up for another season , re-enacting the English Civil War . |
| 5 | The 24 patients in this group with an abnormal naevus pattern have been followed up for 178 person-years . |
| 6 | The prevalence of this diminishes with time after the event , which you might think peculiar , but there are fewer patients who have been followed up for five years . |
| 7 | Vast areas of Rum have been fenced off for century-long experiment to re-create the natural woodland environment . |
| 8 | Individual project boards have been set up for each area of market testing . |
| 9 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 10 | The lessons are recorded so that the trainee 's performance can be reviewed and measured against criteria which have been set down for that skill . |
| 11 | ‘ You have been thrown over for another woman , that 's what I think . |
| 12 | Stone and marble fixtures weighing 400 tonnes from a garden in Boston have been shipped over for this sale . |
| 13 | Similar schemes have been drawn up for several mammalian groups , certain butterfly genera , various reptiles and amphibians while a good deal of work has been carried out on the distributions of the avifauna . |
| 14 | Plans have been drawn up for commercial offices and a smaller centre for church events . |
| 15 | Several racecourses would like to stage more Sunday meetings but so far no fixtures ( apart from a point-to-point ) have been drawn up for next year . |
| 16 | In my view this country is filled with immense new moral forces which have been dammed back for ten years by the great dead bulk of the Labour Party Machine lying like a fallen tree across the road to progress . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Siemens says that few major innovations have been brought out for this small but very steady market for the past 10 years , which should guarantee take-up . |
| 19 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |
| 20 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 21 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 22 | Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent . |
| 23 | It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world . |
| 24 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 25 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 26 | My boyfriend and I have been going out for six weeks and everything is wonderful but it takes me honestly two hours to reach orgasm . |
| 27 | Similar studies have been carried out for other countries , although the methods vary , reflecting the differences in availability of data and in fiscal systems . |
| 28 | Pilot tests have been carried out for much of this year with both the Choice loans package and direct access , but TSB Direct was formally established on November 1 . |
| 29 | Also , there are three sites that have been put up for public consultation by the Gipsy Working Party and that 's Rockhill Farm at Chipping Norton , the airfield at Chiltern near Burford , and Standlake . |