Example sentences of "be [adj] have [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legend of the fox that traps birds by pretending to be dead has been depicted for centuries . |
| 2 | Many of the backing off formulae that are available have been derived for semantic applications where the matrices are extremely sparse . |
| 3 | It came to light that er a great many of the members , a great many of the people who talked about their early experiences reported some sort of abusive experience , either y'know er quite a short one that went on over many many years you know that er if it was some relative or friend of the family they were likely to have been abused for quite a long time in some cases . |
| 4 | Apart from the obvious point that it fails to produce uniformity its principal defect is that it leads to the application of a particular national law which is likely to have been devised for domestic transactions and may well be ill-suited to those which are international in character . |
| 5 | I was scheduled to be a member of that crew and had been issued with my kit , overseas bag etc and was delighted to have been chosen for the ‘ jolly ’ , but someone ‘ pulled rank ’ and took my place , thus saving my life and losing his . |