Example sentences of "has [been] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Lords has asked whether it is sex discrimination , contrary to Directive 76/207/EEC , to dismiss a female employee when she has been engaged for the specific purpose of replacing ( after training ) another female employee who is about to go on maternity leave and when the maternity leave replacement discovers very shortly after appointment that she too is pregnant and will need maternity leave and the employer dismisses her because he needs the job holder to be at work during that period . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , a blow has been struck for the land-owning taxpayer , particularly those less well-off individuals who have not been able to defend themselves against the local district valuer 's increasingly aggressive commercial techniques . |
| 3 | A new method has been developed for the current project which attempts to provide a much simplified morphological system with little increase in the storage requirements and remove the errors permitted by the affix-stripping methods . |
| 4 | 20 pence for every card sold goes into the Molly Braithwaite Fund and with your help to date £70 has been raised for the above fund . |
| 5 | THE draw has been made for the Indoor Football Championship in Hong Kong , which runs from November 15 to 28 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A SECOND ransom demand has been made for the kidnapped champion Irish donkey Toby . |
| 10 | However , we have not been persuaded that it would be right to extend the special provision which has been made for the infected haemophiliacs . |
| 11 | This once German land , which under Polish rule sank into misery and neglect , has been conquered for the German people by sword and plow . |
| 12 | The refuge has been supported for the past 18 years by the Swindon-based financial services group Allied Dunbar . |
| 13 | Up to £2 million has been budgeted for the special needs grant but the amount spent will depend on the take-up . |
| 14 | The EC Commission 's own environment department may be allocated some of the $6.5 million which , to date , has been earmarked for the new agency . |
| 15 | Some flights are night flights — when you arrive in the resort your room is immediately available , as it has been reserved for the whole night . |
| 16 | A quantitative estimate of inversion using this newly defined velocity-depth trend has been constructed for the Sole Pit Basin area ( Fig. 10 ) and will be discussed below in comparison with estimates based on vitrinite reflectance . |
| 17 | For example , little sheltered housing has been constructed for the old and disabled . |
| 18 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 19 | Hogg added it was likely a draw would be made to determine the order of matches in the Scottish inter-district championship , while the following programme has been devised for the Scottish districts v Irish provinces contest : |
| 20 | Mr Lindsey said that , from 5 January , S&P were offering a variable Tessa paying an initial 7.5% , against the fixed rate version at 5.875% , which is slightly higher than the average that S&P , as a group , has been forecasting for the financial year beginning in April 1993 . |
| 21 | The Adult Basic Education Unit at Darlington College of Technology has been funded for the past two years by a grant from the Department of Education and Science . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | AS HAS already been reported , the Severn Valley Railway 's loco fleet has been enhanced for the early season trains by two ‘ star ’ visitors LNER A4 No. 60009 Union of South Africa and SR Battle of Britain No 34072 257 Squadron . |
| 24 | Following your memorandum of 5 August 1993 regarding the above retaining wall , the structure has been checked for the common modes of failure and appears to perform satisfactorily . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | No name has been decided for the new UK firm . |
| 27 | The centre has been run for the past ten years by Richard Gill and his brother Jeff — they say that three quarters of their guests come as individuals though they are happy to take groups . |
| 28 | One 158 unit has been allocated for the Cambrian . |
| 29 | In France , fetal liver transplantation has been performed for the past 16 years , with encouraging , if preliminary , results . |
| 30 | The charity has been running for the past ten years and also has a branch in Middlesbrough which specialises in providing relief for sufferers of cerebral palsy in Poland . |