Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [to-vb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , money wages , interest rates and-tax payments have all been adjusted to allow for the 10 per cent rise in the average level of prices . |
| 2 | A National Parliamentary Movement ( MNP ) of 19 parties had been formed to campaign for the early adoption of a parliamentary system , which could mean severely curtailing Collor 's powers . |
| 3 | A number of mechanisms have been implicated to account for the adverse effect of thiazide diuretics on lipid metabolism , which include reduced lipoprotein lipase activity secondary to the decrease in insulin action ( Grimm et al , 1981 ) . |
| 4 | For the celebration , soldiers of his Army had been forbidden to shave for the last month so that their faced would more nearly represent those of warriors of old . |
| 5 | Now some of the money raised from its sale has been used to pay for a new art Gallery . |
| 6 | Various explanations have been advanced to account for the occupational rewards of professionals . |
| 7 | er until , until the end and they had a poll of er who who has been persuaded to vote for the three la , you know , what had they done |
| 8 | Staff believe the birds may have been stolen to order for a private collector |
| 9 | Mark West , 26 , of St James ' Close has been appointed to work for the British Embassy , in Ankara , Turkey . |
| 10 | Students due to enter the school that year had already been asked to volunteer for the parallel track , so two cohorts existed — those who had expressed a preference for the new approach and those who had not . |
| 11 | Over the last year ACET 's centres in Dundee , Edinburgh and Glasgow have been asked to care for a growing number needing practical help to stay at home . |
| 12 | The data shown in the tables have been weighted to allow for the 50 Tory marginals ' over-representation in the total sample . |
| 13 | From the ‘ mini ’ , weighing as little as an amoeba or only one hundred-millionth of a kilogram ( unc kg ) to the ‘ supermassive ’ with a mass one thousand million times that of the Sun , they have been invoked to account for a wide range of cosmic phenomena . |