Example sentences of "[been] [verb] for [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been arranged for a very long time . ’ |
| 2 | False positive results with a persistently elevated creatine kinase activity have been reported for the dominantly inherited but benign blood anomaly in which the creatine kinase BB isoenzyme is elevated in erythrocytes and thrombocytes . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd been looking for a fairly young product which had a range of merchandise to allow a shop to stand on its own two feet . |
| 4 | They were then very pleased to read in the book that it had been done for the very same reasons . |
| 5 | Hodgson believed that the case had been made for an entirely open , competitive labour market in the West Indies . |
| 6 | But when due allowance has been made for the very various functions of castles , as administrative and social as well as military centres , it remains true that they were formidable military weapons , and that some of the most remarkable technological advances of the twelfth century were made in the improvement of siege engines and of a castle 's defences . |
| 7 | Some have been living for a disconcertingly long time in museums ; but once doubted , the evidence of inadequacy in a fake is quite often soon in coming . |
| 8 | British trade unionists have therefore been pushing for a slightly different wording that European Works Council Representatives should be elected by current workers ' representatives wherever they exist . |
| 9 | Development , or modernization , has been seen for the most part in terms of a simple distinction between ‘ traditional ’ and ‘ modern ’ , ‘ underdeveloped ’ and ‘ developed ’ , ‘ agrarian ’ and ‘ industrial ’ societies , in the context of the present time , or of very recent history . |
| 10 | Those who have been waiting for the newly published syllabus for Part 2 , which is also to be run at Greenhill starting in the Autumn on Thursdays from 9.30am to 12.30pm , should contact the tutor , Sybil Kenton . |
| 11 | Anyhow , it had been going for a very short time , not very satisfactory , because none of us really were very successful with our machine , and then a … messenger came in to say that a [ radio ] taxi driver had come into No. 10 to say he 's heard everything going on in his taxi in Whitehall . |
| 12 | The phrase ‘ community participation ’ has been used for a much longer time . |
| 13 | And Anjelica Huston returned to her own home saying that she had been humiliated for the very last time . |
| 14 | In addition , however , funding has recently been approved for a much more ambitious scheme — the Earth Observing System ( EOS ) . |
| 15 | Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes . |
| 16 | The as I said this , this is required for identification for the organism , but the to the toxin has been recognised for a very , very long time and right from er , the early days the possibility of inactivating the biological properties of a toxin while retaining their immunological properties has been attractive to people seeking to prevent these diseases . |
| 17 | The reason for his pleasure , as well as for the handkerchief 's greyness , was that he had washed it himself … and really he had done just as good a job as the dhobi had been doing for the most extravagant prices . |
| 18 | It 's been known for a very long time that from these cases you can isolate this organism C diphtheria bacterium which you saw in the practical classes and has this distinctive stayed property where er certain granules can be stayed up and also the arrangement of the cells is rather reminiscent of what called Chinese lettering . |
| 19 | There is no simple answer but it is generally advisable to describe the disappointments in broad terms as they affect the whole school ( ‘ the LEA has been unable to grant our request for extra welfare assistance ’ ) and present the successes individually but anonymously ( ‘ through the efforts of the governors a reading aid has been provided for a partially sighted pupil ’ ) . |
| 20 | While John Paul Jones had been captivating the ladies of Paris the French government had been preparing for the most serious attack on England since the Dutch incursion into the Medway . |
| 21 | Great stuff but a half star has been deducted for the sadly inconsistent sound quality between the three sessions . |
| 22 | They have even been mistaken for a very loose cluster , though in fact they are not really associated with each other . |
| 23 | Mr Deukmejian , who was elected governor in 1982 , has been trying for a mighty long time to get the death penalty enforced in California . |
| 24 | Woodland has , therefore , been managed for a very long time and we shall examine this further in a moment . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , the educational background of many radio staff may well have been to blame for the overly formal tone of many programmes , which frequently caused them to sound stilted and unnatural . |
| 26 | Group frequency correlations have been established for the most common and widely-studied elements , and an experienced worker soon learns to recognize diagnostic bands relevant to his own field of interest . |