Example sentences of "been [vb pp] for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Mm detailed plans have been approved for a single storey dwelling in the garden on one of the houses condition on the surgery reverting to living accommodation , the houses would have considerable scope for use as offices subject to planning or paramedical use especially where large car parking areas are required , the whole is available at two hundred and fifty thousand pounds , but offers may be considered for number twenty five with the garden and parking area building plots to the agent |
| 62 | A CD is a negotiable bearer instrument issued by a bank which certifies that a stated sum has been deposited for a specific time period at a particular interest rate . |
| 63 | There is nothing at all romantic about this sympathy for the underdog : as a midshipman , we are told , Aubrey had been disrated for an unsavoury escapade and had served a long period on the lower deck , an experience which he never forgot . |
| 64 | There is a common expectation that mourners will visit the cemetery where the dead person 's body or ashes have been interred for a recognized period of time , attending to flowers at the grave and generally maintaining contact with the memory of the dead person . |
| 65 | The red silk dress had been exchanged for a slender column of midnight-blue sequins that caught the light and spun it back in dizzying rainbows of colour . |
| 66 | McKoy , having already been called back for one false start , would have been disqualified for a second offence — but he took full advantage of his head-start to pip Jackson for the gold . |
| 67 | Chatterton , Fagg , Fishbane and Glastonbury were huddled together in the Smoking Room , from which each of them had been extracted for a brief conversation with Milton . |
| 68 | Piano keys made with synthetic resins or polymer fibres eventually become slippery with sweat from the pianist 's fingers after been played for a long time . |
| 69 | Parliament elects a President for a four-year term ( the current President , Wee Kim Wee , having been re-elected for a second term in August 1989 — see below ) who appoints a Cabinet headed by a Prime Minister and responsible to Parliament . |
| 70 | ‘ These events are occurring now because human rights have been violated for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 71 | Or alternatively if cash has been allocated for a later purchase of , say , an expected new issue of bonds and the fear is of prices rising , an investor can hedge by buying a future or by acquiring a call option . |
| 72 | She stooped down to drink where a stone had been set for a firm landing beside a foot-wide pool . |
| 73 | True , the foundations had been laid for a cultural revival , a breakdown of the isolation in which individual centres of learning , art , and devotion had existed . |
| 74 | It had been known for a long time that histamine was responsible for producing many allergies and the first antihistamine drug was produced in France in 1937 . |
| 75 | Other diuretics have been known for a long time , especially arsenical compounds of mercury . |
| 76 | The toxic nature of some animals has been known for a long time and man has utilised their venoms and poisons for various purposes . |
| 77 | The effect of early experience on the mating preferences of birds and mammals has been known for a long time . |
| 78 | It has been known for a long time , and has led to the more modern practice called ‘ foliar feeding ’ , in which the purpose is not so much to correct deficiencies , but to encourage a boost in performance , yield and so on by spraying major element solutions on to the leaves in the same way . |
| 79 | It has been known for a long time that , partly due to their immense size , elephants can hear much lower sounds than we can . |
| 80 | As I 've mentioned already in the context of metaphors of memory , the phenomenon of ‘ animal electricity ’ and its relation to neural activity had been known for a long time — at least since Galvani 's demonstration in Bologna in the 1790s that electrical pulses caused a frog 's legs to twitch . |
| 81 | These are called reaves and , while they have been known for a long time , their age , extent and probable purpose have only recently been recognised . |
| 82 | It has been known for a tough roadman-sprinter to control the race in these big hills , not to lose much time on the Ballon , then rejoin the leading group , dominate them on the long downhill run into Mulhouse and win the stage . |
| 83 | This is , in effect , what had already been known for a considerable time as a ‘ cantata ’ for six voices , four viole , two violini , and string and keyboard continuo , in four strongly contrasted sections ( solo and tutti ) preceded by a sinfonia . |
| 84 | It has even been known for an esteemed binder 's ticket to be transferred from a battered volume to a more handsome specimen with which he had no demonstrable connection . |
| 85 | After all , in 1,189 densely-printed pages , space has not been found for a single illustration . |
| 86 | At the same time as a new , totally devoted audience had been found for a different kind of comedy film , an equally devoted public was on hand for his radio show . |
| 87 | The value of printing a linear document from a database has been appreciated for a long time . |
| 88 | In addition , evidence has been provided for an active transport mechanism in the human intestinal mucosa . |
| 89 | Yet even though in my part Welsh has not been spoken for a long time , and indeed the natives have even forgotten the Welsh pronunciation of our Celtic place-names , it would not cross my neighbours ' minds that just living there makes me Welsh . |
| 90 | If he has been arrested for an arrestable offence , there may also be a power to search his home under section 18 . |