Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] been [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They caved in ; I mean it was only a sister and a niece , and they 'd both been provided for during his lifetime and the niece got a couple of hundred thou in his will . |
| 2 | By the time of the second inquiry the house had effectively been abandoned for nearly twenty years and was suffering from extensive coal mining subsidence ; and it was likely to suffer still more in the future . |
| 3 | The government announced on Aug. 20 that it was planning to open up for exploration by foreign oil companies areas that had hitherto been reserved for Indian state-owned companies . |
| 4 | The building materials used on the three houses referred to in ( b ) above had cost £18,000 and had all been paid for by December 1990 . |
| 5 | She had only been daunted for a moment , however . |
| 6 | Nostrils had only been gone for ten minutes before the speaker announced : |
| 7 | In the big front room the flags were as good as new — no wear at all — and Hannah told me it had only been used for funerals and pig-killings . |
| 8 | A similar undated sequence was recorded in Green Cutting to the east , where the courtyard had obviously been used for industrial activities prior to the demise of the associated building . |
| 9 | The Suffolk Dun , according to Arthur Young in 1794 , had long been celebrated for its magnanimous milk yield , said to be the highest in the country in proportion to its body size and food intake . |
| 10 | The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage . |
| 11 | The remaining vote was declared invalid due to a technicality , although it had apparently been cast for Jones . |
| 12 | It had apparently been arranged for the drugs to be delivered to a warehouse in Bristol . |
| 13 | The Florios worked the room with ease and self-confidence and by the time they had reached the podium an aide to the candidate was saying that almost a million dollars had already been raised for the Democratic campaign . |
| 14 | By then Adis had already been hospitalised for three months . |
| 15 | Well , to be strictly truthful , camp had already been made for us by some hi-tech realtors . |
| 16 | A method had already been developed for salvaging institutions and legacies which were defective : the principle plus nuncupatum minus scriptum was applied . |
| 17 | It is also possible that seasonal meeting places had already been determined for the exchange of goods and people as well as social intercourse . |
| 18 | Dr Meredith had already been sent for , but his lordship was of the view that my father should be moved out of the sun before the doctor 's arrival ; consequently , a bath-chair arrived and with not a little difficulty , my father was transported into the house . |
| 19 | Many shrewd judges , both on the veldt and in England , though that the Springbok selectors were taking a massive gamble with Griffin , who had already been called for throwing in his own country , especially as unfair bowling had lately become a major issue . |
| 20 | Arróspide [ see also p. 34182 ] was at the time in a Paris prison awaiting trial for offences committed in France , and his extradition had already been sought for the 1987 supermarket bombing in Barcelona [ for which see p. 35851 ] . |
| 21 | ( But in the 1930s , while a teacher of anatomy at the University of Birmingham and investigating hormonal influences in reproduction , he had already been reproved for obscenity by the Archbishop of Canterbury — the executive head of the Anglican Church — over his first book , The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes . ) |
| 22 | Nevertheless , estimates had already been obtained for the provision of a nurses ' recreation room and tennis courts for the nursing staff . |
| 23 | Thus , when Ludendorff arrived at his new headquarters at Marienburg , orders had already been given for the mass of the Eighth Army to form a half-moon facing southeast , toward the centre of which' Samsonov , urged on by telegrams from Jilinski , was now marching his weary men . |
| 24 | Contracts had already been given for the erection of grandstands and a tented village . |
| 25 | By the time the conference was held in September approval had already been given for undergraduate and postgraduate courses at six colleges and polytechnics in England , Ulster Polytechnic and Dunfermline College of Physical Education . |
| 26 | Bill Craig had already been sacked for criticizing O'Neill 's televised plea to the province . |
| 27 | When she hinted to Dona Marguerita that she was sometimes bored and would like to get out of the house and see more of the country , the old lady was quick to point out how much had already been done for her . |
| 28 | ESRC funding enabled the research team to classify and analyse biographical material that had already been collected for the 1900-39 cohorts through record search and postal questionnaire for the 1940-67 cohorts . |
| 29 | The owner had already been convicted for cruelty — but had n't been banned from keeping sheep . |
| 30 | In the sitting room-cum-bedroom of their Darlinghurst first floor flat , the table had already been set for dinner . |