Example sentences of "have been [verb] for an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A CALL has been made for an empty building near a town centre to be turned into a nursery . |
| 2 | For many years AI has been calling for an independent judicial inquiry to investigate the pattern of disputed killings by security forces in Northern Ireland in order to help prevent unlawful killings . |
| 3 | Permission has been given for an 18-hole golf course at the Redworth Hall Hotel , near Heighington . |
| 4 | His report called Transforming the Dinosaurs has been produced for an independent think tank group called DEMOS . |
| 5 | This is what has been claimed for an alternative associative account put forward by McLaren , Kaye , and Mackintosh ( 1989 ) . |
| 6 | If the pupil has been excluded for an aggregate period of more than five days in any term or will miss an opportunity to take an examination as a result of his/her exclusion , the governors may order his reinstatement and the head has to comply . |
| 7 | In addition , evidence has been provided for an active transport mechanism in the human intestinal mucosa . |
| 8 | If he has been arrested for an arrestable offence , there may also be a power to search his home under section 18 . |
| 9 | A judgement debt is where a debtor has been sued for an unpaid account and the court has found in favour of the creditor and issued judgement against the debtor . |
| 10 | The 70-bedroom Salutation Hotel , Perth , Scotland , one of the Embassy hotels bought by John Jarvis in 1990 , has been sold for an undisclosed sum to Strathmore Hotels . |
| 11 | The Bell Hotel in Church Street , Tewkesbury , has been sold for an undisclosed sum . |
| 12 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 13 | Any one of them might have been used for an unlawful occasion , but , if so , the most diligent inquiries failed to bring it to light . |
| 14 | Unless , therefore the guarantee was void as having been made for an illegal consideration or voidable on the ground of economic duress , the extrinsic evidence establishes that it was supported by valid consideration . |
| 15 | He seemed to have been moving for an immeasurable time . |
| 16 | Returning to NAMAS , A. Lally ( MAFF , CVL , Weybridge ) illustrated how accreditation had been obtained for an environmental radiochemical analysis laboratory . |
| 17 | Once patients had been seen for an initial consultation , half were treated within five weeks and 80 per cent within six months , she added . |
| 18 | The alliance is a blow to the ruling Parti Socialiste of President François Mitterrand , which had been hoping for an electoral alliance with the Green parties . |
| 19 | Police violence against members of racial minorities became a national issue following the widespread broadcast on television of an amateur video showing white Los Angeles policemen brutally beating a black man who had been stopped for an alleged driving offence on March 3 . |
| 20 | His mind had been prepared for an impossible radiance and it had taken time to absorb a new set of signals . |
| 21 | There is nothing at all romantic about this sympathy for the underdog : as a midshipman , we are told , Aubrey had been disrated for an unsavoury escapade and had served a long period on the lower deck , an experience which he never forgot . |
| 22 | I suspected that he was hoping to hear that the senator had been arranging for an illicit love affair on board Wavebreaker . |
| 23 | They 've been calling for an alternative route to the A 421 since World War Two . |
| 24 | For years , American X-ray astronomers have been pushing for an Advanced X-ray Astrophysics facility ( AXAF ) which would have better sensitivity and resolution of detail , than all other X-ray telescopes presently planned . |
| 25 | The actors have been booked for an extended run at Bradford Royal Infirmary by the local hospital trust . |
| 26 | Because of its concerns about the consultants ' figures , convention officials have been pressing for an urgent meeting of a joint Scottish Office-COSLA working party on finance since early February but that has not taken place . |