Example sentences of "have been [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
| 2 | A CALL has been made for an empty building near a town centre to be turned into a nursery . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Funding has been obtained for a vocational exchange between catering students from Telford and Lyon in France . |
| 5 | The use of high dose ascorbic acid ( vitamin C ) has been advocated for a wide range of ailments for years . |
| 6 | Permission has been given for an 18-hole golf course at the Redworth Hall Hotel , near Heighington . |
| 7 | This route has been earmarked for a possible future extension of the Midland Metro light rail transit system . |
| 8 | The yard has been earmarked for a complete overhaul by private developers . |
| 9 | Certainly it has been argued for a discrete stimulus trained as an occasion setter that subsequently presenting it alone will not produce a loss of occasion-setting power ( e.g. Rescorla 1986 ) ( but see also Ross 1983 ; Holland and Gory 1986 ) . |
| 10 | This very high degree of risk has been maintained for a long time as many studies over the past thirty years have shown . |
| 11 | A congested city has been selected for a detailed three month inquiry into its traffic problems . |
| 12 | As an example of discourse analysis data , it has been selected for a particular purpose . |
| 13 | This has been recognized for a long time . |
| 14 | A LIFEBOAT crew has been honoured for a daring rescue on the Cleveland coast . |
| 15 | A CD is a negotiable bearer instrument issued by a bank which certifies that a stated sum has been deposited for a specific time period at a particular interest rate . |
| 16 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
| 17 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 18 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
| 19 | Morgan has been looking for a white knight for the last two weeks since insurance broker Willis Faber announced it was selling its 20 per cent stake in the merchant bank to Banque Indosuez , part of Compagnie Financiere de Suez . |
| 20 | This has been realized for a long time , and it is on record that John Dalton analysed the water supply for the firm of Sykes & Co. at Stockport and declared it suitable for the purpose . |
| 21 | The purpose of an audit mark or stamp on clients ' documents is twofold : it provides evidence that the document has been examined for a particular purpose ( which should be clear from the audit file ) ; and it helps to avoid the document 's being re-presented as support for a duplicate entry . |
| 22 | Four times it has been birdied for a one-stroke victory , the most impressive being Sandy Lyle 's wonderful second shot from sand in 1988 . |
| 23 | A fresh application has been submitted for a 98-bedroom hotel near the A12 in Ipswich Road , Dedham . |
| 24 | His report called Transforming the Dinosaurs has been produced for an independent think tank group called DEMOS . |
| 25 | This is what has been claimed for an alternative associative account put forward by McLaren , Kaye , and Mackintosh ( 1989 ) . |
| 26 | my Lord I , I think it takes the view and probably not unreasonably that assuming good faith on the part of the disciplinary tribunal and assuming that there is er review by the courts , you will have complete objectivity and someone who has been excluded for a good reason , maybe fraud or something of that nature should not be competing in the first place , but he will not be excluded unreasonably and therefore if he was excluded unreasonably erm the fact of he 's exclusion could be anti competitive because it takes out of the market a player |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It has been used for a wide variety of projects so far . |
| 29 | which again has been used for a long time on animals . |
| 30 | Woodblock has been used for a beautiful , yet practical , floorcovering . |