Example sentences of "have [adv] been [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But the American plan promotes only steps that have already been taken for other reasons . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Eight schools in Hillingdon have now been approved for grant-maintained status . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Similar results have recently been published for basal gastrin concentrations in a small group of subjects matched for sex and age . |