Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Cripps , Laski and Strauss , who had been booked for a speaking tour in " Labour 's Crusade Week " , refused to continue their tour until Mellor had been endorsed . |
| 32 | It was unlikely that murder had been committed for a few pounds , but one could never be sure . |
| 33 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
| 34 | Cesar appears to have been destined for a clerical career from the start . |
| 35 | The trouble began when 10,000 Moslems marched in the town centre , protesting that permission had been granted for a five-day Christian revivalist rally to be addressed by a German preacher , Reinhard Bonnke , whereas some weeks previously permission had been refused for a South African imam to visit Kano . |
| 36 | You and your wife have been separated for a continuous two-year period , and you both agree to the divorce . |
| 37 | has been re-appointed for a further year as part-time member of AEA Board . |
| 38 | The nexus appears to have been made for a sufficient number of the laity , as those who eventually voted in the referendum voted in favour of inscribing an appropriate anti-abortion clause in the constitution . |
| 39 | The good news is that plans have been made for a third building . |
| 40 | Governor 's rule had initially been imposed for a maximum six-month period ( as provided for under the state Constitution ) on Jan. 19 [ see pp. 37183-84 ] . |
| 41 | Four times it has been birdied for a one-stroke victory , the most impressive being Sandy Lyle 's wonderful second shot from sand in 1988 . |
| 42 | It is not known where the Gospel was written but it must have been written for a Jewish Christian community . |
| 43 | That means programs have still not been written for a whole range of complex new tasks that GPs will be asked to do . |
| 44 | Certainly it has been argued for a discrete stimulus trained as an occasion setter that subsequently presenting it alone will not produce a loss of occasion-setting power ( e.g. Rescorla 1986 ) ( but see also Ross 1983 ; Holland and Gory 1986 ) . |
| 45 | Johnson was used to red cards , but this particular coupon was to signal a different kind of brush with authority , a sign that the player had been selected for a random dope test . |
| 46 | As an example of discourse analysis data , it has been selected for a particular purpose . |
| 47 | A congested city has been selected for a detailed three month inquiry into its traffic problems . |
| 48 | The ban on commercial whaling has been upheld for a further year — prompting threats from Iceland and Norway to leave the International Whaling Commission . |
| 49 | The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage . |
| 50 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 51 | This has the appearance of an emergency military operation which may not apply to the other civil defences , but these too must have been commissioned for a specific occasion , but where the emergency may not have been too critical . |
| 52 | Since no money has been drawn for a considerable number of years and interest has accrued at 7.5% per annum the fund now stands at around £1000 . |
| 53 | Since no money has been drawn for a considerable number of years and interest has accrued at 7.5% per annum the fund now stands at around £1000 . |
| 54 | The best places for bottles in Montepulciano are the cool brick cantine like that of the Contucci Palace , cellars furred with black fungus where Vino Nobile has been produced for a thousand years . |
| 55 | Behind such analyses lay Richard Hoggart 's extensive and sensitive work in The Uses of Literacy , published in 1957 and documenting the assumptions , attitudes , and morals of working-class people in Northern England , together with the influence upon them of the magazines , books , and films which had been produced for a mass market . |
| 56 | it does n't matter because all of them are as it happens fairly er new and indeed as Kevin says quite correctly , dry because they have n't been used for a long time . |
| 57 | which again has been used for a long time on animals . |
| 58 | Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show . |
| 59 | But few dogs make better companions than a well trained Shepherd , and they have been used for a wide variety of tasks , aside from their traditional role of protecting flocks of sheep . |
| 60 | It has been used for a wide variety of projects so far . |