Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mill was leased in 1350 to Roger le Walker and it is likely the mill had been partially converted for fulling . |
| 2 | This company , in turn , departed , and by the 1970s , Millbottom had been partially converted for domestic use . |
| 3 | Apart from the track itself the forest had been partially felled for about twenty feet on either side so that except where the road wound sharply it was possible to see a long way ahead . |
| 4 | The decision in December 1989 to transform Noriega 's infamous Panamanian Defence Force ( FDP ) into a lightly armed Panamanian Public Force ( FPP ) under civilian control [ see also p. 37181 ] had been heavily criticized for leaving the government open to such paramilitary attacks and making it more dependent on the USA than before . |
| 5 | The areas of traditional Stafford influence , the Welsh march and north midlands , had been otherwise provided for during the duke 's minority but there was a degree of political reorganization in both areas in 1473 , which could have been exploited to allow the duke a role there had the king wished . |
| 6 | The areas of traditional Stafford influence , the Welsh march and north midlands , had been otherwise provided for during the duke 's minority but there was a degree of political reorganization in both areas in 1473 , which could have been exploited to allow the duke a role there had the king wished . |
| 7 | Price was thought to have influenced the decision on April 21 by Guyana 's President Desmond Hoyte to appoint Rudolph Collins , a former ambassador to Venezuela , to chair the electoral commission , in place of Sir Harold Bollers , who had been strongly criticized for failing to assert the commission 's independence from the ruling People 's National Congress . |
| 8 | But the area had been well prepared for an attack . |
| 9 | She was overcome with emotion when she discovered it had been well cared for . |
| 10 | mfl ab During the two-day hearing , Mr Clay said the 285,000-member RCN had been frequently attacked for its industrial relations policy . |
| 11 | Judge McKinnon had been widely criticized for comments made during his hearing of a case of inciting racial hatred . |
| 12 | An unexpected retention in the Cabinet was Foreign Minister Carlos Iturralde Ballivián who had been widely criticized for his conduct of diplomacy within the Organization of American States ( OAS ) , for the handling of border disputes with Chile and for his failure to secure Bolivian membership of the Mercosur common market with Argentina , Brazil , Paraguay and Uruguay [ see p. 38096 ] . |
| 13 | He had been widely criticised for his handling of the Birmingham Six appeal in 1988 and has seen a number of earlier convictions overturned as police evidence was discredited in the Appeal Court . |
| 14 | The plutonium , the first of an estimated 30-40 tonnes processed in Europe from spent Japanese uranium fuel , had been officially designated for commercial use to fire a new generation of Japanese fast-breeder reactors . |
| 15 | ‘ There was no discipline , and too many niches had been conveniently created for too many friends , lovers and other attachments . |
| 16 | The racial mixture was soon to be sharpened , as the mid-century railway boom got under way , by new waves of immigrants from Ireland , the Forest of Dean , Herefordshire , and Somerset , but already the social , political , and religious pattern of the new South Wales and the eastern valleys of Monmouthshire had been firmly set for another century . |
| 17 | The influence of Marxism on Japanese historiography strengthened the feeling that Japanese agriculture had been mercilessly exploited for the sake of industry . |
| 18 | But the second games started , Merton would move , striding like a supermarket trolley attendant into the ring and ignoring all the ‘ rules ’ of improvisational comedy that the other clever-clever types had been carefully developing for the previous few years . |
| 19 | A spokesman for Central TV explained gravely that this particular edition had been carefully monitored for balance of beastliness . |
| 20 | The man chosen by Nero for the new advance was Quintus Veranius , who had been carefully selected for a senatorial career from an early age , and had distinguished himself as governor in Pamphylia , which is now in Turkey . |
| 21 | Although no one had been hanged in Ireland since 1954 and capital punishment had been abolished for most categories of murder in 1964 [ see p. 19227 ] , it had been nominally retained for those categories specified above . |
| 22 | Critics argued that the government itself had been largely to blame for the country 's economic problems . |
| 23 | The modern science of ecology emerged when naturalists trying to understand how a species ' distribution is limited by environmental factors sought to develop more precise ways of studying relationships that had been largely taken for granted by previous generations . |
| 24 | In early July the Moroccan authorities had freed a number of prisoners previously deemed to have " disappeared " , who had been secretly detained for up to 15 years . |
| 25 | Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles broke his silence following newspaper reports which suggested that Charles and Camilla had been secretly meeting for more than 10 years and that there was evidence of a ‘ passionate intimacy ’ . |
| 26 | That their father 's death must be a relief to her elder sister was obvious , for Major O'Brien had been hopelessly paralysed for years , and during the last few months of his life had been unable to speak . |
| 27 | Three of the drivers concerned had argued that they had been unfairly selected for redundancy because there were drivers with less service who had been retained at other quarries . |
| 28 | Aden was at that time an RAF command , in which the operational policy of air control had been successfully applied for some years . |
| 29 | The financial savings made possible by Sandys ’ Reformation had been gradually whittled away by escalating equipment costs , and by the need to provide the strategic mobility that his policies had assumed , but which had been inadequately provided for in his costings . |
| 30 | The exchange controls which had been strictly enforced for over forty years were removed in 1979 and this enabled both sovereign and corporate borrowers from abroad to issue sterling-denominated bonds in London . |