Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ? |
| 2 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 3 | You 've been made for other things than politics and intrigue . ’ |
| 4 | Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is |
| 5 | A spokesman said : ‘ Less than half of our 1.35m junior accounts — that is , for savers aged less than 16 — have been registered for gross payment of interest . |
| 6 | Corpus availability is currently limited due to legal constraints although some have been cleared for academic research . |
| 7 | High-bay systems have been constructed for palletized case storage , small-parts storage , long load storage and even for the storage of fully assembled motor cars ( with fuel on board ) . |
| 8 | During June and early July full day HS&E training programmes have been arranged for senior managers and divisional coordinators which will form the basis for communication within each company . |
| 9 | The Red Cross primarily visits those inmates who are former National Guardsmen or who have been sentenced for counter-revolutionary activity . |
| 10 | The chronicler Hall emphasised the consternation produced by the government 's success in establishing a basis for swingeing taxation , and although wealth can seldom or never have been overstated for fiscal purposes , the Rutland muster book could perhaps be the exception that bears out his claim that ‘ some avaunced them selfes more than they were worth of pride , not remembryng [ realising/ suspecting ] what was coming ’ , naively succumbing to the blandishments of the commissioners , who ‘ did what they could to set the people to the vttermoste ’ . |
| 11 | Most of the motility studies on irritable bowel syndrome patients have been conducted for brief periods of time in the very distal portions of the viscus . |
| 12 | The variations in gas yield and composition with maturity have been determined for Palaeozoic and Tertiary coals using data obtained from laboratory heating experiments . |
| 13 | However , there is a possibility that State aids , which have been given for domestic reasons , may reduce competitive pressure between nations , since such assistance may give a competitive advantage to industry within a particular country vis-à-vis its trading partners . |
| 14 | Although there is evidence to support Kinsbourne 's hypothesis ( Kinsbourne , 1975a ; Cohen , 1975a ) it can not account for the results of those studies in which opposite field superiorities have been obtained for verbal and non-verbal stimuli presented randomly or simultaneously to each half field of vision ( Terrace , 1959 ; Berlucchi , Brizzolara , Marzi , Rizzolatti and Umilta , 1974 ; Hines , 1975 ; Klein , Moscovitch and Vigna , 1976 ; Pirozollo and Rayner , 1977 ) . |
| 15 | In the past eight years , some 5,400 police officers have been freed for operational policing duties by civilianising posts which do not require the powers or skills of a police officer , representing an efficiency gain of around £100 million per year . |
| 16 | Since they have been selected for fast growth , these birds are only seven or eight weeks old when they are transported — really just overgrown chicks . |
| 17 | Two key areas have been selected for initial study , the office of Chairman and Managing Director and that of the Finance Controller . |
| 18 | Since they involve the same Ernst equation , it is clear that all the solution generating techniques that have been developed for stationary axisymmetric space-times in recent years can also be applied to colliding plane wave situations . |
| 19 | Although they have been developed for acrylic painters , I 'm sure they are ideal for oil painters too , as they can be cleaned in turpentine overnight , then used for acrylic painting the very next day . |
| 20 | More complex techniques have been developed for approximate string matching , allowing for possible spelling or recognition errors in the input word ( Hall and Dowling , 1980 ; Kashyap and Oommen , 1984 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The five examples outlined above illustrate the proliferation of schemes and courses which have been developed for unemployed people in the 1980s . |
| 23 | We have also not mentioned the many different styles of analysis which have been developed for special parameter ranges . |
| 24 | Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ? |
| 25 | Rainforests have been flooded for hydro-electric dams . |
| 26 | For the first time there is access to the Crown Room for wheelchairs , and full-size ‘ hands-on ’ replicas of the Regalia have been made for blind or partially-sighted visitors . |
| 27 | Measurement of internal friction such as those referred to above have been made for numerous polymers , and relaxation spectra for commonly used materials are listed in detail in the book by McCrum , read & Williams ( 1967 ) and in Ferry 's book . |
| 28 | ‘ Prohibited steps orders have been made for local authorities in county courts everywhere , ’ Spicer said . |
| 29 | Finally , suggestions have been made for improving ward learning by the introduction of a planned programme . |
| 30 | Certain workers have been monitored for internal contamination by radionuclides and exposure to other forms of radiation such as neutrons since the 1950s , but this is not done routinely and monitoring methods can be unreliable . |