Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 2 | In the USA a new manager has been appointed specifically for this and for corporate business . |
| 3 | Although it has been grown here for more than a century , the low-growing variety A. dioicus Kneiffii is , surprisingly , less well known . |
| 4 | For example , if you are looking for something for your in-foal mare , choose a supplement which has been made specifically for this purpose such as Medi Equus stud formula . |
| 5 | The British Standard BS 6652 for child resistance is granted to specific combinations of bottle and cap and has been given only for some makes of closures on BS 1679 bottles , which are the ones we use in this hospital . |
| 6 | However , no money has been allocated specifically for this purpose . |
| 7 | The slash-and-burn type of shifting cultivation has been used continuously for some 2000 years in Indomalesia , each patch being cropped for only 2 or 3 years , the people at a density of some five or fewer cultivators per km 2 . |
| 8 | However , this has been used mainly for those whose crimes would not have sent them to prison anyway . |
| 9 | This plant , a relative of ivy and indigenous to the temperate mountains of the Far East , has been used continually for some 5000 years in the Orient as a tonic , restorative and preventive remedy . |
| 10 | For him the Dutch Texel is the original Texel ; it comes from the island of Texel and has been bred there for many generations . |
| 11 | His Disco Roadshow business , called Darlington Number One , has been hired out for several parties and functions in the Darlington area . |
| 12 | She 's only done half the course and already she has been picked out for this job . |
| 13 | A telephone hotline , manned twenty four hours a day , has been set up for former pupils of a school where the head has been suspended and a governor arrested by police . |
| 14 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
| 15 | If the body exercising the power has been established especially for that purpose , the courts are likely to conclude that Parliament intended the body to act personally . |
| 16 | The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century . |
| 17 | A common problem in geographical information systems ( GIS ) , and one which has been known about for many years in the context of choropleth mapping , is that of producing maps from population data aggregated over selected arbitrary areal units . |
| 18 | In Frome there was one more natural disaster to come before the year was out : the afternoon of September 17th saw ‘ One of the highest floods that has been remembered perhaps for these 20 years ’ , according to Crocker . |
| 19 | This policy has been carried out for some time by the OECD countries , Todorovic claimed , except that there the figure is between 4 and 6 per cent . |
| 20 | In fact , options or at least verbal commitments will have been obtained already for some special buys which are wanted , but nothing will have been the subject of a formal order to any of the media before this . |
| 21 | I expect that the Minister can reassure him that an environmental impact assessment can not have been made properly for that incinerator yet , because an application does not yet appear to have been made . |
| 22 | Little by little you will start to release any unnecessary tension that may have been stored unknowingly for many years . |
| 23 | Wallace looked menacing and was through at one point when Burrows hacked him down ( the scouser should have been sent off for that and a clear ‘ professional foul ’ in the second half against Deane ) . |
| 24 | It may seem incredible that they could have been remembered accurately for many decades , but the construction of skaldic verse was complex , and features such as the binding of pairs of lines by allit-eration , and rhyme and consonance within lines , perhaps facilitated the correct transmission of individual words . |
| 25 | ‘ I was very surprised to have been singled out for this honour . |
| 26 | The bed was made , but did n't seem to have been slept in for some time , although there was a folded pair of pyjamas under the pillow . |
| 27 | Looks as though it had been cut out for some reason . |
| 28 | Written application had been made in advance , and , except for four theses on loan , all had been collected together for this study either within the thesis area or in the thesis collection area of the Stack , to which access was permitted on this occasion . |
| 29 | She had assumed , when she was told that Mills ' murder had been checked thoroughly for any spying connections , that the enquiry had at least had the semblance of efficiency , if not diligence . |
| 30 | But meanwhile , the hospital workers had been dug in for another kind of long war which ca n't be won the miners ' way . |