Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] for [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appropriate methodology has been developed for examining the historical tracking performance of large-scale macroeconometric models which contain model-consistent expectations and this now enables attention to be focused upon historical counter-factual experiments , paying particular attention to the treatment of policy in such exercises . |
| 2 | Cixous has been criticized for lacking a politics and a theory of the social . |
| 3 | ‘ Scientific management 's ’ mechanistic and materialistic model of the individual has been criticized for taking no account of other motives for work and , by implication , the diverse interests of which people might be conscious as members of groups and wish to protect and advance through group action . |
| 4 | Snell has been criticized for causing a decline in handwriting by promoting his dull copperplate style , but his practice and teaching of a simpler and standardized mode of handwriting most effectively met the needs of clerks in the growing number of commercial houses . |
| 5 | A grant of a licence in a restricted form , when a full licence has been applied for constitutes a refusal and may be appealed ( Wolfson v. Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1981 S.L.T. 17 ) . |
| 6 | Laslett in turn has been challenged for ignoring the effects of the life-cycle in altering family size through generations , for by-passing evidence which suggests that other kin lived with the conjugal unit , and for rejecting changing ideologies of the family . |
| 7 | CLEVELAND Ambulance has been attacked for charging a pensioner £162 for a 36-mile journey . |
| 8 | This concluded that ‘ not only is there sufficient land for building another 250,000 dwellings [ in the study area ] over the next five years , but already capacity has been identified for building an additional 117,000 dwellings after five years ’ . |
| 9 | A film about an estate agency specially set up for squatters has been criticised for promoting an unacceptable activity . |
| 10 | For instance , Kohlberg 's ( 1964 ) theory of the development of moral reasoning has been criticised for proposing a hierarchy of stages , supported more by wishful thinking than empirical evidence : |
| 11 | The DTI has been criticised for underestimating the number of children injured each year by fireworks . |
| 12 | Teesside Operations has been praised for entering the ‘ lion 's den ’ in its campaign to improve communications with the local community . |
| 13 | THE Welsh National Opera company — Princess Di 's favourite — has been slammed for using a naked woman in performance posters . |
| 14 | An invalid package name has been supplied for activating a DC/DCs . |
| 15 | He has been fined for exposing a wrong that England and Pakistan seemed happier keeping under the carpet . |
| 16 | A flying instructor has been blamed for causing a helicopter crash . |
| 17 | RTZ 's Tinto Holdings Canada Ltd subsidiary has a controlling interest in a company which mines uranium at Elliot Lake , Ontario , which has been blamed for destroying the fishing-based economy of the local Anishnabe Indians . |
| 18 | In addition , its oil exploration activities in the Ecuadorian Amazon has been blamed for damaging the hunting economy of the Waorani , Quichua , Siona , Secoya and Cofan Indians , by driving away wildlife and polluting soil and water . |
| 19 | As far as total dust veil is concerned , it seems to be roughly the same size as the veil from the Agung eruption , which has been blamed for cooling the northern hemisphere by about 0.3 °C in the mid-1960s.There is one key difference , though : El Chichón 's eruption occurred in the northern hemisphere , Agung 's in the south . |
| 20 | Coffee has been blamed for increasing the pulse rate and for interfering with the efficiency of the digestive process . |
| 21 | Their method has been designed for recovering a GEM from water — not easy because any bacteria in it are much less abundant than , say in soil . |
| 22 | He 'd been fined for having a dangerous vehicle . |
| 23 | Our Bank Assistant members could have been forgiven for entering the Labour Court with some misgivings but with a good deal of hope . |
| 24 | Nearly a century and a half later Alexander II might have been forgiven for feeling an even greater degree of disappointment . |
| 25 | The 50-year-old , winner of 61 tournaments worldwide , said that his interpretation of the rules was that he should have been disqualified for signing an incorrect score card . |
| 26 | Having been criticised for giving no information , BR now gives it all the time with endless repetition , except when you really want it . |
| 27 | In the fourth century BC the Greek city of Cyzicus ( quite near the Bosporus ) made peculiarly archaic-looking coins of electrum , and these seem to have been intended for financing the corn trade between the Black Sea and Greece , as we can surmise from finds of them and from inscriptions . |
| 28 | The stone has now vanished and is believed to have been used for paving the walks of St. James Church in Brackley . |
| 29 | There were , he said , currently only 3,850 people serving sentences in prisons and re-education centres for all types of offences ( roughly 1.2 per 1,000 population ) ; of these 83 had been convicted for attempting the violent overthrow of the state , the most serious political offence . |
| 30 | That enabled Senna to qualify in fifth place and on race day his tactical mastery helped him to victory for a record sixth time , Alain Prost had been penalised for jumping the start . |