Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local folk have been picking here for generations and always made sure that the beds were not overfished . |
| 2 | The differential impact of national and industry environmental forces upon the structure , process and outcomes of industrial relations have been examined empirically for the important metalworking industry across five countries . |
| 3 | We have a great deal of sympathy er but whereas I do n't think some of the ideas that have been floated tonight for a Cornwall and Gibraltar West seat er or erm any kind of link up between Cornwall and any tail end of a Welsh seat we do n't think is practical and I think he 's got ta solve this problem er within the confines of Cornwall being regarded as part of England if not Anglo Saxon . |
| 4 | The scenes on pottery described above belong to a very small minority , but they have been singled out for their outstanding interest and significance in the study of religious practices . |
| 5 | South Korean boats fishing for tuna have been singled out for blame . |
| 6 | The undercover soldiers of the S-A-S have been singled out for their bravery in the Gulf War . |
| 7 | She said people receiving the letter should not worry that they have been singled out for any genuine reason . |
| 8 | From the first , our meteorite collecting programmes have been motivated not for the sake of numbers alone but by the hope that large quantities of fragments would include samples of rare or completely new type of meteorites . |
| 9 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 10 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 11 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 12 | All the apartments at the Kensington have been reserved solely for Club 18–30 . |
| 13 | Stories have been rejected outright for the simple reason that they were ‘ too middle-class ’ , though one editor was constructive enough to suggest the writer might want to replace ballet and riding classes with swimming and gymnastics . |
| 14 | ‘ If you were brought up in Brixton or Hackney , and have been stopped regularly for no reason by the police , you are bound to view them with a bit of hatred ’ … . |
| 15 | At this time of day , however , when law and equity have been joined together for over 70 years , principles must be reconsidered in the light of their combined effect . |
| 16 | The oarsmen and women have been training now for over 3 months to reach the peak of stamina and fitness that could bring victory in the longest raft race in the world . |
| 17 | ‘ Businesses which have been clinging on for months are now going over the edge . ’ |
| 18 | Some employees have been sacked just for being HIV positive . |
| 19 | In Ondo , Kano and plateau States new television establishments already exist , staff have been recruited , contracts with equipment suppliers have been signed and people have been sent abroad for training . |
| 20 | The tapestries were in remarkably good condition when found but have been sent out for restoration several times this century and final work on the last two will be finished next June . |
| 21 | Draft specifications for general SVQs in this area have been sent out for consultation , and a seminar was held to discuss them at the end of October . |
| 22 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 23 | This pattern has been changing ; there is a tendency now for girls to keep their babies , and over the last year or so girls have been sent there for a variety of other reasons , but essentially so that they can be assessed on their ability to care for their child . |
| 24 | Anyway , a bumper crop of entries have been sent in for my perusal with a phenomenal response for the Hi-Tec and Elvira puzzlers so , waffling aside , let's see who the lucky pilchards are this time . |
| 25 | Some of these files contain sections of program instructions ( for example , LIB ) which have been split off for convenience . |
| 26 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 27 | Professional counselling is the best way forward for you because your feelings have been bottled up for so long . |
| 28 | Sera taken before and after transplantation have been tested retrospectively for anti-HC Ab in 12 patients . |
| 29 | ‘ In some cases smoking is as addictive as heroin and it is difficult for people to give up when they have been inhaling deeply for a number of years , ’ he told a news conference at the Royal Society in London . |
| 30 | It is not the intention here to detail a course blueprint , partly because such prescriptiveness would stand in contradiction to the learner-centred tenet of primary practice , and partly because stimulating and informed models have been presented elsewhere for discussion ( Bullock , 1975 ; Hawkins , 1984 ; Sinclair , 1982 ) . |