Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] for [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plans to build the country 's second biggest reservoir have been shelved for at least five years . |
| 2 | Scientists have been warning for at least 30 years that humankind 's pollution of the atmosphere was about to have serious effect . |
| 3 | Sulawesi and the rest of the Wallacean region have been isolated for at least several hundred thousand years . |
| 4 | Itinerant craftsmen have been argued for on the basis of the use of bronze models for the production of two-piece clay moulds ( Werner 1970 ; Capelle and Vierck 1971 ) and Hines views travelling craftsmen as the most suitable explanation for the dispersal of ornamental metalwork ( Hines 1984 ) . |
| 5 | For the last hundred years the picturesque ruins of the Augustinian nunnery ( founded around 1200 ) have been cared for by the Iona Cathedrals Trust . |
| 6 | Taken to extremes , a Bonsai pine , cherry or plum can embrace many more elements than a mere dwarfed tree might at first suggest to the Westerner : antiquity , continuity ( the best examples have been cared for by successive generations ) , and symbolic qualities that only a study of Zen can fully bring home . |
| 7 | CONTROVERSIAL plans to redevelop a dilapidated shopping arcade in a town centre have been delayed for at least a year . |
| 8 | MORE speed checks have been called for in Darlington streets where motorists regularly flout the law . |
| 9 | However , in the past , these businesses have been compensated for by very high profits when the business reaches take-off point . |
| 10 | The case of Goff v Gauthier ( 1991 ) 62 P & CR 388 has shown that it must be fair and reasonable for the vendor to rely on this exclusion ( see page 62 ) ; ( e ) to state that the vendor will not be liable to the extent that any claim arises out of or is increased by the acts or omissions of the purchaser after completion ; ( f ) to provide that the purchaser must give credit for the amount by which assets are found to have been understated , or liabilities have been over-provided for in the accounts ; ( g ) to ensure that the purchaser pays to the vendor all amounts subsequently recovered from third parties relating to claims that have been paid by the vendor . |
| 11 | Many employees are using the excuse of falling sales to impose changes to previously agreed conditions , often using the excuse to impose changes to conditions that have been fought for for many years . |
| 12 | In South-west England tin , copper and other metals have been mined for at least 2000 years from deposits related to Variscan granites ; in the Pennine range of central and northern England over a similar period , lead , and lately fluorite and baryte , have been extracted from vein and replacement deposits in Carboniferous sediments ; in Central Wales , the Isle of Man and the Southern Uplands of Scotland lead and zinc have been mined from vein deposits in Lower Palaeozoic greywackes and in the Lake District copper , lead and zinc have been recovered from a variety of deposits in Lower Palaeozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks underlain by Caledonian granites . |
| 13 | ‘ This is what I have been waiting for to really make the hotel complete . ’ |
| 14 | The endorsement our society gives to an ideal of thinness for young women is likely to be responsible for the current high frequency of the illness , but other factors must also be involved since anorexic patients have been reported for at least the past 150 years . |
| 15 | In fact , all but one of the new peptide sequences obtained in the analysis of GGF-II have been accounted for within the predicted GGFHBS5 protein sequence . |
| 16 | What Reader 's Digest with its enormous great computers have been doing for at least ten years , now people with small computers and a word-processing package can do for themselves , and certainly they would be selecting from their customer lists particular people to send particular advertising to and special letters . |
| 17 | This is what goats have been asking for in the their prayers . |
| 18 | Brightest spot : the final , disgraceful death of the opinion poll industry , which I have been campaigning for since 1983 . |
| 19 | This is something that the G M B have been campaigning for since nineteen ninety . |
| 20 | This will bring in reforms of the kind which the Consumers ' Association have been campaigning for over many a long year . |
| 21 | These imports have to be paid for and what is interesting — and why manufacturing is vital to us — is that over the past hundred years , if not longer , seventy per cent of these imports have been paid for by the export of British manufactured goods . |
| 22 | The difference is that the copy has been supplied by a PRO and the photography and space have been paid for by that PRO 's company or organisation . |
| 23 | The poor receive not merely the direct financial transfer in the form of transfer payments such as supplementary benefit , but also the consumption of public goods that have been paid for by income taxes raised from the rich . |