Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Since a Conservative government has been elected for a fourth term these developments will probably continue . |
2 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
3 | The temporary ‘ window of opportunity ’ which has made gifts of works of art and other property to US museums fully tax deductible since January 1991 , has been extended for a further eighteen months from July . |
4 | I am very pleased to announce that , thanks to the generosity of the Wolfson Foundation and family charitable trust , the museums and galleries improvement fund has been extended for a further two years to 1995-96 . |
5 | A SUCCESSFUL after-care scheme run for elderly people at Middlesbrough General Hospital has been extended for a further year , it was announced last night . |
6 | Sir Hugh added that the Dragon offer has been extended for a further 14 days . |
7 | A CALL has been made for an empty building near a town centre to be turned into a nursery . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Funding has been obtained for a vocational exchange between catering students from Telford and Lyon in France . |
10 | The use of high dose ascorbic acid ( vitamin C ) has been advocated for a wide range of ailments for years . |
11 | Permission has been given for an 18-hole golf course at the Redworth Hall Hotel , near Heighington . |
12 | This route has been earmarked for a possible future extension of the Midland Metro light rail transit system . |
13 | The yard has been earmarked for a complete overhaul by private developers . |
14 | They face another five years in opposition and Labour will have another inquest into why it has been rejected for a fourth time . |
15 | 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 ) . |
16 | Now the way has been cleared for a wider approach , through the use of software recommended as a common Group standard . |
17 | This very high degree of risk has been maintained for a long time as many studies over the past thirty years have shown . |
18 | has been re-appointed for a further year as part-time member of AEA Board . |
19 | The route has been planned for a 25 mile ride through the East Hampshire countryside starting and finishing at the Bohunt Centre , with plenty of refreshment stops on the way . |
20 | The ban on commercial whaling has been upheld for a further year — prompting threats from Iceland and Norway to leave the International Whaling Commission . |
21 | A congested city has been selected for a detailed three month inquiry into its traffic problems . |
22 | As an example of discourse analysis data , it has been selected for a particular purpose . |
23 | A prisoner who threw boiling water over a fellow inmate has been jailed for a further three and a half years . |
24 | This has been recognized for a long time . |
25 | A LIFEBOAT crew has been honoured for a daring rescue on the Cleveland coast . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
29 | 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 ) . |
30 | 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 . |