Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 These guidelines have been prepared for the information and guidance of staff in centres preparing and offering the National Certificate in Travel , and should be read in conjunction with the module descriptors .
2 Guidelines have been established for Head Teachers to incorporate road safety education in the school curriculum .
3 The remedies have been grouped for easier comparison and so do not appear alphabetically .
4 A surrender value may not be available if premiums have been paid for less than two years .
5 A paid-up policy is only available if premiums have been paid for three years and the reduced sum is £400 or more .
6 Although the NRA warned that the programme 's cost will be high , and that there are no " quick fix " remedies , solutions have been identified for 10 of the rivers .
7 Special cages have been developed for wild mice to reduce the need for handling during cleaning but it is possible to keep them in standard mouse cages .
8 Although Jacquard looms have been going for over 100 years , improvements are still being carried out .
9 Bound , hard cover books , laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree .
10 Segregation and control units have been used for difficult prisoners , especially in women 's prisons .
11 Following this group , a further 20 units have been identified for the next group and these 20 come from within a batch of fifty who will form the subsequent groups .
12 Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms .
13 Local people and organizations have been complaining for years about high levels of tritium found in groundwater , drinking water and in milk from local dairies .
14 But no new facilites have been built for children and some fear boredom will once more spawn the vandalism which blighted the original buildings .
15 The second equally obvious point is that , given the disparate analyses , a variety of prescriptions have been offered for dealing with the presumed causes of the nation 's ills .
16 Aideed 's fighters have been blamed for the June 5 killing of 23 Pakistani UN peacekeepers and the United Nations launched retaliatory air strikes on Saturday and Sunday .
17 The two British fighters have been tipped for a multi-million pound British showdown since Bruno 's boxing licence was renewed 14 months ago , and the prospect gathered pace last week when Lewis was crowned WBC champion .
18 Laptop computers have been acquired for calculation work both in the office and in the field , and the output from our new electro-static colour plotter is impressive , providing many work opportunities as well as enhancing the presentation of our drawings .
19 What Reader 's Digest with its enormous great computers have been doing for at least ten years , now people with small computers and a word-processing package can do for themselves , and certainly they would be selecting from their customer lists particular people to send particular advertising to and special letters .
20 Yesterday 's announcement of 420 job losses came after a meeting between the receivers and union representatives at the yard , where warships have been built for 130 years .
21 As members will be aware , the Local Government Regions and Districts have been known for some time , and the areas of the Sheriffdoms were published at the beginning of the year .
22 Meanwhile more than 400 entries have been received for Gateshead Leisure Services Open Meeting at Gateshead International Stadium on Saturday .
23 Treasury Secretaries have been fighting for reinstatement ever since .
24 Itinerant craftsmen have been argued for on the basis of the use of bronze models for the production of two-piece clay moulds ( Werner 1970 ; Capelle and Vierck 1971 ) and Hines views travelling craftsmen as the most suitable explanation for the dispersal of ornamental metalwork ( Hines 1984 ) .
25 Jelly snakes have been added for a ‘ desert ’ feel or perhaps you could add a toy rubber tarantula or scorpion .
26 Similar labelling index distributions have been published for the dog and in the rat , as reviewed in .
27 The importance of readability has been upheld for so long that all manner of methods have been devised for its measurement .
28 Fortunately , various purely psychological methods have been devised for studying the organisation of the mental lexicon in normal subjects , and some of these will be discussed in this chapter .
29 Resistivity methods have been developed for investigating fracturing in boreholes .
30 Several methods have been reported for isolating plasmid DNA for sequencing , for example alkaline lysis ( 1 ) and boiling ( 2 ) .
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