Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All my work , whether original or adapted , has been written more for personal reasons than to fit any perceived format or genre . |
| 2 | The Primary Enterprise Pack — This support pack has been developed especially for primary school teachers by the Polytechnic of North London . |
| 3 | Adjustment has been made throughout for intra-industry bulk Scotch Whisky sales . |
| 4 | There is one particular practice that has been singled out for special treatment and that is resale price maintenance . |
| 5 | The story of mud is one of a resource that has been excluded not for technical but for social reasons . |
| 6 | Vibrational spectroscopy has been used successfully for quantitative analysis , but considerable care is needed to ensure accurate results . |
| 7 | Indeed , such an activation mechanism has been suggested previously for DNA-PK-mediated phosphorylation of Sp1 ( 4 ) . |
| 8 | A helpline has been set up for anxious parents . |
| 9 | The main service on offer is the Schwab One International account which has been designed especially for international investors . |
| 10 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 11 | Although most nomadic tribes have a long history of weaving rugs specifically for trade , a number of items coming onto the western market may well have been made originally for personal use . |
| 12 | Going into the bedroom again she put on the oatmeal dress which might have been bought yesterday for fit . |
| 13 | We do not know if they had music or even if they had genuine art : cave-paintings and bone-carvings might be manifestations of the muse , but they could equally well have been executed solely for mystical purposes . |
| 14 | Having been employed now for British Gas for the last twenty five years er , I 've got seventeen years of pensionable service , which has only just been negotiated through the G M B since nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety three and now it is probably one of the better pensions , company pension schemes , in the country . |
| 15 | From these observations the task before the court on this appeal can be distilled in this form : the court is concerned to inquire as to the persons with respect to whom Parliament is presumed to have been legislating when using the expression , ‘ any person , ’ and in making that inquiry Parliament is to be taken to have been legislating only for British subjects or foreigners coming to the United Kingdom , unless the contrary is expressed ( which it is not here ) or is plainly implicit . |
| 16 | Because both test and control groups had been singled out for special attention a group pride had developed and this became the motivation for improved performance . |
| 17 | Not once , but six separate times … and now he had been warned off for good . |
| 18 | Searle was not the only person at this time to conclude that since the Lefevre Gallery had told Minton ‘ Moons are out ’ , he had been searching round for new solutions which visits abroad solved only temporarily . |
| 19 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 20 | It was believed that the treaty had been made simply for private gain , and this view was given substance by Isabella 's appropriation of much of the £20,000 payment from Bruce . |
| 21 | Bert Millichip , the FA chairman , claimed that the decision to seed England in Cagliari had been made purely for footballing reasons . |
| 22 | Bert Millichip , the FA chairman , claimed that the decision to seed England in Cagliari had been made purely for footballing reasons . |
| 23 | It was as large a set as had been developed earlier for general use , except for the London area ( where a few larger sets had been installed in the 1930s and some larger sets of somewhat antiquated design were also completed by the BEA in its early years ) , There were , however , doubts about the flexibility in start-up and shut-down times for the new 60MW and other new designs , and a fortiori about more advanced designs . |
| 24 | Obviously Stirling had been lobbying hard for new blood . |
| 25 | One manager felt the changes had been rushed through for political reasons , had overwhelmed staff and brought ‘ no major instant successes ’ . |
| 26 | These patients had been treated earlier for pernicious anaemia in the same hospital between 1972 and 1985 . |
| 27 | Armenia is begging Russia to recommission two old reactors that had been shut down for good in 1988 under popular pressure . |
| 28 | He reported that £1,000 had been set aside for proper surfacing of paths at Radford Park . |
| 29 | The only substantial aid received by the government so far had been $300,000,000 from the United States agreed by the US Congress in May 1990 [ see p. 37450 ] , which had been gradually disbursed , except for $50,000,000 which had been set aside for clearing debt arrears . |
| 30 | Mat. 's door , in my own mind I had been slung out for encouraging unseemly behaviour from a male patient and was miserably working on the choice of my next career . |