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

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1 A huge area has since been cleared for the construction of flyovers , underpasses , multi-lane carriageways and slip roads , with forlorn office blocks and high rise flats standing around them , either waiting to be demolished or recently erected .
2 Open Accounting was originally developed on Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP 9000 range , but has since been implemented for the RS/6000 , Sequent Computer Systems Corp boxes and Digital Equipment Corp 's Alpha running OSF/1 .
3 The main stumbling block had been the appointment of its chair [ see pp. 37712 ; 37777 ; 37858 ] , a problem temporarily resolved on Dec. 11 when Prince Norodom Sihanouk , who had hitherto been pressing for the chairmanship , called on the SNC to " stop talking about the chairmanship and vice-chairmanship … and have the 12 SNC members , on an equal footing , work for peace " .
4 Croce , a noted Philadelphia cancer researcher , has only been collecting for the past ten years , specialising in Italian seventeenth-century paintings and drawings .
5 Naturally , VI would rather sell X-Designer than enhance rival products , but in the US where X-Designer has only been sold for the past year , rival products have a much stronger hold and the separation of the Graph Widgets enables a toehold into these accounts for the VI sales force .
6 I believe she used to be so reluctant about marrying people because marriage is important to her , she 's only been waiting for the right one . ’
7 Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s .
8 It had apparently been arranged for the drugs to be delivered to a warehouse in Bristol .
9 The biggest change has come within the ranks of the SDLP where Martin Bradley , Mark Durkan , Kathleen McCloskey , Margaret McCartney and Wilfred White have all been elected for the first time and Pat Ramsey makes a return to the Council chamber having reclaimed the seat he lost in 1989 .
10 Reportedly Oracle 7 , Sybase , Ingres and Informix have all been tuned for the 1000 .
11 True to the philosophy behind the series , the new titles have all been chosen for the quality of the writing and because they provide the satisfaction of a ‘ good read ’ .
12 Dreams came true in many ways ; some made strokes which had not been played for the last 20 years , others took catches and some ran threes .
13 The official turnout was 74 per cent , although there were claims that many voters had not been registered for the ballot .
14 In general , estate development has not been studied for the pre-Conquest period — there are not enough documents and the field evidence is enigmatic .
15 That means that the product has not been optimised for the 80486 or for Pentium , and wo n't take account of new Pentium features such as the dual pipeline , or work around some of the clock cycle quirks that emerged in the behaviour of the 80486 post technical documentation .
16 That means that the product has not been optimised for the 486 or Pentium , and wo n't take account of Pentium features such as the dual pipeline , or work around some of the clock cycle quirks that emerged in the 486 post technical documentation .
17 Further promoter deletions have not been analysed for the murine NF-L gene to permit a functional comparison to be made of the minimal regulatory sequences that are needed for neuronal-specific expression in human and mouse genes .
18 Nathan had not been prepared for the bus trip into and out of the town and the long walk through the snow to a campsite either .
19 I had not been prepared for the volume of decisions I had to make .
20 But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response .
21 There is no point in simply applying lower speed limits on residential roads if the drivers have not been prepared for the fact that they must slow down .
22 But all the same , Sara had not been prepared for the girls ' curiosity about Matthew .
23 In a letter to the London gallery , The Edge , a DTI official stated that details of the case had been passed to Customs and Excise for them to consider whether an offence had occurred as a licence had not been granted for the photographs in the current exhibition .
24 The trophy for the ladies open has not been engraved for the last few years .
25 On 2 February 1799 Parson Woodforde , by then in Norfolk , wrote in his diary : ‘ Such severe weather has not been known for the last sixty years till the present ’ .
26 At some point during my stay in Wolverton there arose a rumour that the church of St James in the neighbouring railway-workers ' village of New Bradwell had not been consecrated for the performance of weddings .
27 Mr Pearse said : ‘ Do not think that we have not been fighting for the price of Midland shares that we have just received .
28 We in the PAC have not been fighting for the crumbs from the master 's table . ’
29 Bert Brown , the consortium 's sales and marketing director , said : ‘ It is true that the miners have not been paid for the last seven weeks .
30 We will probably have to prove that we have not been paid for the consignment .
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