Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The differential impact of national and industry environmental forces upon the structure , process and outcomes of industrial relations have been examined empirically for the important metalworking industry across five countries . |
| 2 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 3 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 4 | They yesterday found out which rating band their houses had been placed in for the new tax , which starts next April . |
| 5 | Its 1,360cc four-cylinder engine , mated to a five-speed gearbox , is new , having been developed specially for the new generation of AXs from the mainstream-car petrol engine . |
| 6 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 7 | But in the past year German authorities withdrew approval for certain components which Cameron and some other hot-air balloon manufacturers have been using worldwide for the past 20 years . |
| 8 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 9 | The scarves have been designed exclusively for the National Trust and cost £45 each . |
| 10 | An exciting and varied programme of forty-two special-interest holidays both overseas and within Britain has been designed exclusively for the National Trust . |
| 11 | Artcare only use quality nylon zips , each of which has been designed especially for a particular portfolio ; and only square arch mechanisms are used making presentation much neater . |
| 12 | One of the examples of work in progress discusses research that has been carried out for the European Commission as part of the CORINE Project . |
| 13 | For most sections construction has been carried out for the Regional Council by teams employed under the Special Measures Programme of the City of Edinburgh District Council , with financial support from the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 14 | Similar analyses have been carried out for the other major journals , and the full results are available in Will 1991 . |
| 15 | Other work on assessment of costs and benefits of such data have been carried out for the French government by Professor Didier ( 1990 ) . |
| 16 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 17 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 18 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 19 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |
| 20 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 21 | All the animals are in their cages , but they do n't seem to have very much space , and some of them have n't been fed properly for a long time . |
| 22 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
| 23 | DHA 1 has been waiting patiently for a new DGH for 25 years . |
| 24 | Then you can tell me some more about that book you 've been buried in for the past week . " |
| 25 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 26 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 27 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 28 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 29 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 30 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |