Example sentences of "been [verb] for [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There followed a frantic exchange of telegrams between Rangoon and Whitehall in which the Governor offered various solutions to the prevailing deadlock , finally coming up with the unexpected suggestion that a new coalition ministry was possible with Paw Tun , the last premier of Burma before the invasion ; U Saw , his predecessor as premier , an unscrupulous schemer who had been interned for dealing with the Japanese ; and Aung San , previously portrayed by Dorman-Smith as a murderer and an enemy . |
| 2 | Clarity , which anticipated becoming that magical $100m company , has been criticized for putting in a $100m company 's infrastructure complete with six vice presidents long before it could financially justify it . |
| 3 | It is for this reason that Keynesian stabilization policies have been criticized for relying on the ‘ unexplained postulate ’ of wage rigidity and for assuming that the form of wage and price rigidity , the form of wage and price contracts , is exogenously given rather than determined by , amongst other things , the type of monetary and fiscal policies being carried out . |
| 4 | She has also been optimised for racing with a Kevlar sail wardrobe . |
| 5 | The case has now been listed for hearing before the Commissioners . |
| 6 | He would never forget how Samuel Reichmann and his partner , Emmanuel Hollander , had been fined for trading with the Germans by the Jewish Court of Tangier , and how one or both of them were on the blacklist of the British Consulate . |
| 7 | On the other hand , only 25 per cent of the Kosovo electorate turned out to vote , most of these being Serbs , following calls by ethnic Albanians for a total boycott , and Tanjug reported that in Kosovo some 400 polling stations had not been opened for voting by the local authorities . |
| 8 | The second equally obvious point is that , given the disparate analyses , a variety of prescriptions have been offered for dealing with the presumed causes of the nation 's ills . |
| 9 | Plenty of that , no doubt , in this overgrown , untended woodland , even after it had been combed for firing by the urchins of the Foregate . |
| 10 | Surely an animal of this bulk , it was argued , must be partly supported by water , and their relatively inconsequential teeth must have been adapted for chewing on the kind of soft , luxuriant vegetation that flourishes in and around swamps . |
| 11 | In Fennell a father sought to secure the release of his son who had been arrested for participating in an affray . |
| 12 | Earlier in Weston-Super-Mare Salvation Army leaders had been arrested for proceeding with a march contrary to a ban placed upon it by the local magistrates . |
| 13 | William Reid , 31 , had been fired for protesting at a late lunch order from executives at the Daily Mirror 's London offices . |
| 14 | The workshops are considered helpful to pupils preparing for higher grade English exams and study notes on ‘ Sunset Song ’ have been devised for teaching in the classroom or for students studying on their own . |
| 15 | Various imaginative plans had already been suggested for dealing with the most difficult problem , the high-level waste . |
| 16 | An infrastructure has been established for campaigning in the years to come : a Leader and some 30 distinguished Patrons have agreed to support the Campaign ; an initial portfolio of investment projects has been drawn up ; and the Alumni database , with an active list of some 25% of the graduate body , is now operational . |
| 17 | ( c ) a delivery after initial failure , in which case either the wrong book is first sent , or delivery is made only after the call-slip has been returned for checking to the Issue Hall and has then been re-submitted , and |
| 18 | US military officials said that only about 130 people remained in detention out of a total of 5,300 Panamanians who had been held for questioning since the invasion . |