Example sentences of "been [verb] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Glenda Jackson had already been approached for the female lead . |
| 32 | a project quality plan format has been designed for the Permanent Way group , and that it 's your format and you change it . |
| 33 | Hundreds of parachutes have been prepared for the major drop over Salisbury Plain tonight and over the next few days . |
| 34 | History is the arena in which , first through the period of the Old Testament , then by the teaching of Jesus in the New , the way has been prepared for the gradual purifying and refining of man 's religious sense which will lead to a third , future era , in which religious values will be seen to shine in their own light as ‘ necessary truths of reason ’ . |
| 35 | ‘ Then obviously I 've been looking for the wrong qualities in my secretaries . ’ |
| 36 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 37 | Last year , nearly £300 had been collected for the Spanish Fund , and within the space of a month , including Xmas no less than three large indoor meetings had been held , of which one was the Town Hall meeting at which one of the largest collections ever received at a Labour meeting in Leeds was taken up . |
| 38 | Wordsworth 's poetic fluency had never been greater , and the landscape near Tintern Abbey , revisited after an absence of five years , released from him a stream of meditative blank verse quite different in style from the humble poems of rural life he had been writing for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 39 | No name has been decided for the new UK firm . |
| 40 | Although the game against the All Blacks was entertaining , the flaws in the Boks line-up were evident to see and changes should have been made for the following encounter with the World Champions . |
| 41 | There has been a substantial advance in real-terms pay under our Administration , and this year the pay award that has been made for the current year is increasing the teachers ' pay bill overall by 11.3 per cent . |
| 42 | At the English Reformation Tyndale naïvely hoped that , after provision had been made for the surplus clergy , the revenues misused by the Church would be devoted to relief of the poor , not to the enrichment of Henry VIII 's courtiers . |
| 43 | It is necessary to stress this rather negative fact mainly because of excessive claims that have been made for the new ideas . |
| 44 | The special arrangements that had been made for the new pathway students had caused resentment among other students , who felt that they were being treated like second class citizens , and enthusiasm from staff members who had been involved in the parallel track had reassured other faculty members . |
| 45 | I do not agree with Stella Lowry that ‘ special arrangements that had been made for the new pathway students had caused resentment among other students , who felt that they were being treated like second class citizens . ’ |
| 46 | THE draw has been made for the Indoor Football Championship in Hong Kong , which runs from November 15 to 28 . |
| 47 | Looking to the future , preparations have been made for the International TV Week which will be held in Bolzano , Italy from 17–23 May 1992 . |
| 48 | Mickey Spielberg , Disney 's chief imagineer , told me that some adjustments have been made for the European park , especially in the type of catering provided . |
| 49 | And even after due allowance has been made for the undeniable fact , easily forgotten as it is , that literature is written by writers , and that writers are likely to be highly exceptional beings who actively prefer working alone , there is still something persuasively representative about the man in the play who would rather listen to a new recording of a favourite opera than to the problems of his neighbours and relatives . |
| 50 | No allowance had been made for the physical difficulty of getting heavy guns over a battlefield where all roads had been obliterated and every inch of ground thrown up into huge mounds and craters by the attackers ' own bombardment . |
| 51 | The Group has no present intention to dispose of the AUK Notes and therefore no tax provision has been made for the potential liability to corporation tax . |
| 52 | However , we have not been persuaded that it would be right to extend the special provision which has been made for the infected haemophiliacs . |
| 53 | A SECOND ransom demand has been made for the kidnapped champion Irish donkey Toby . |
| 54 | Since then several major houses have been secured for the National Trust in this way , notably Belton , Calke and Kedleston . |
| 55 | It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’ |
| 56 | If you have been hunting for the perfect diet for a very long time it will be difficult to stop , actually to believe that good weight control can be established without resorting to one special diet that you go on ( and then , and this is the snag , come off again ) . |
| 57 | The banks have been hostile to the plans from the beginning but had been waiting for the right moment to withdraw on commercial rather than political grounds . |
| 58 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 59 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 60 | He 's been waiting for the past half-hour . ’ |