Example sentences of "it have been [vb pp] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it has been grown here for more than a century , the low-growing variety A. dioicus Kneiffii is , surprisingly , less well known . |
| 2 | It has been used effectively for example in destroying odours from maggot farms which had caused a nuisance over a wide area , for more than twenty years and not even a tall chimney was necessary to remove the resultant exhaust gases . |
| 3 | It was feared the collection , offered for sale by Lord Brownlow , would go abroad , but it has been snapped up for £220,000 by Lincolnshire County Council , backed by the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Victoria & Albert Museum . |
| 4 | What is more , it has been taken up for use in other situations , so that J.C . |
| 5 | It has been taken apart for restoration and can be seen next year at Hildesheim during the celebration of the thousandth anniversary of the enthronement of St Bernward as bishop . |
| 6 | The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up . |
| 7 | It has been designed especially for students with a different educational background from those entering the degree programme . |
| 8 | Section 27(2) ( a ) permits the court or the arbitrator a discretion to ignore the governing law clause if it appears that it has been included only for the purpose of evading the provisions of the UCTA . |
| 9 | Some of the manuscript has been saved because it had been printed off for a friend to proof-read . |
| 10 | It was nonsense to pretend it had been done solely for her benefit . |
| 11 | Looks as though it had been cut out for some reason . |
| 12 | Its virtue was that it had no neighbours and it had been picked out for just that reason : no-one to ask questions , no-one expecting to start up a friendship . |
| 13 | As it had been hired out for stage work a few times and was n't perfect the selling price was thirty-five pounds . |
| 14 | There was a table beside it and a pipe lay on top as if it had been left just for a moment . |
| 15 | There are two pightles in this parish , both referring to elongated pieces of land , relics of the time when such shapes were left at the edge of a field after it had been divided up for strip-cultivation . |
| 16 | I moved the reliquary from its altar , after it had been swathed well for safety in moving it to a higher place . |
| 17 | However , Frogmarsh Mill 's long involvement in the cloth trade was drawing to a close , for by 1863 it had been taken over for the manufacture of pins by the firm of Perkins , Critchley and Marmont . |
| 18 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
| 19 | It had been set aside for no obvious purpose with a low table and several padded vinyl seats ; they were old and split with yellow foam bulging out , and on the walls were two art-school lithographs bearing optimistic prices . |
| 20 | In Ballymacarrett , there was less unemployment , traditional gender roles were more clearly differentiated , the population was resident in traditional streets of terraced houses , and for the most part it had been established there for generations . |
| 21 | Parts of it have been taken over for a secondary motor road , but much of it remains remote and quiet , rarely disturbed by a human voice . |
| 22 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 23 | It 's been shut down for a fortnight , it 's all getting modernized and all that , upgraded . |
| 24 | Like those cars , it 's been designed primarily for the track . |
| 25 | no it 's not , it 's been designed especially for it so erm he 's gon na get erm , I said what are you doing all this for I said , it 'll be easier to go and buy yourself a three wheeler |
| 26 | It 's been put up for sale by the Gloucester Health Authority , which would like to see it renovated . |
| 27 | It 's part of the biggest event of it 's kind to be staged in Britain , and it 's been held especially for handicapped and underprivileged youngsters . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's been laid up for a while with a problem in the starting mechanism , but a friend is now completing a repair job for me , and we hope to be up and running again soon , ’ explained Gordon , pictured with the vehicle 's log-book . |
| 29 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |