Example sentences of "have [adv] been [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | US giants such as Microsoft have a strong commitment to multimedia CD-ROM publishing have long been searching for suitable properties . |
| 2 | But the American plan promotes only steps that have already been taken for other reasons . |
| 3 | And again there will be the same erm circumstances that I have just been describing for other people applying here . |
| 4 | Mexicans have always been known for heavy drinking because traditional forms of alcohol are cheap , peasants often making their own , and this is a classic way of forgetting the drudgery of poverty . |
| 5 | The differential is even greater when pedestrian fatalities are singled out for analysis ; and significant class discrepancies have also been observed for specific types of non-fatal accident , such as burns and scalds . |
| 6 | The Scotsman has also established that consultants helping put the finishing touches to a feasibility study on Rosyth for Medway Ports have also been acting for Scottish Enterprise . |
| 7 | Blind and deaf people have also been recruited for certain jobs in central government , and a number of state governments have reserved a percentage of jobs for the disabled . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many secondary schools in the London borough of Hillingdon have now been approved for grant-maintained status and how many applications are still outstanding . |
| 9 | Eight schools in Hillingdon have now been approved for grant-maintained status . |
| 10 | We told how monkeys from the two parks have been sent to Shamrock Farms , near Brighton , for breeding — and have then been sold for medical research or slaughtered . |
| 11 | Arguably certain kinds of jobs ( such as those in the Civil Service ) have historically been reserved for male Oxbridge graduates in such ‘ useless ’ subjects as history and classics : sex and class may sometimes be greater indications of a person 's ‘ worth ’ than degree subject . |
| 12 | Similar results have recently been published for basal gastrin concentrations in a small group of subjects matched for sex and age . |