Example sentences of "has [adv] [adv] been [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 This view was reflected by one observer in Rabat , who said : ‘ He ( King Hassan ) has so clearly been playing for time .
2 Finally , it has so far been taken for granted that satisfaction of a social objective of efficient wealth creation is capable of legitimating the existence of corporate power .
3 DNA bending does not seem to be a general feature of eukaryotic transcription factors and has hitherto only been demonstrated for little more than a handful of such proteins ( see e.g. 44,69 and references therein ) .
4 Female choice has only properly been tested for in the case of one such character , the long tail of a species of widow bird , and it was confirmed to be operating .
5 The Bank has only once been sued for regulatory failure , after it rescued Johnson Matthey Bankers ; the case was settled out of court in 1986 in the Bank 's favour .
6 Even German management , which has quite rightly been praised for its achievements over the years , has been unable to respond easily to the economic errors of its government .
7 DOL has never really been noted for his heading ability .
8 Although it is commonly assumed that these tests reflect compliance with the diatary treatment , this has never really been proved for ingestion of small amounts of gluten .
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