Example sentences of "been [verb] [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interestingly , no similar safeguard has yet been considered appropriate for the video industry under the terms of the Video Recordings Act 1984 . |
| 2 | Its contents certainly merit much closer attention than on the whole has been made possible for the general public around Europe . |
| 3 | Additional funds have been made available for the purpose and , accordingly , the reforms — including the establishment of trusts — cause no adverse effects on the hospital maintenance programme . |
| 4 | The two other presidential candidates , Alfonso Santos of the Christian Democratic Front and Guadalupe de Seita , an independent , announced at the end of February that they were withdrawing from the ballot , complaining that government funds had been made available for the Trovoada campaign . |
| 5 | Co-ordinator Pam McHale said £14,500 had been made available for the Streetlink scheme and that approval was expected for another nine schemes over the next week . |
| 6 | With the recent introduction of Standard Grade and Revised Higher Grade , special budgets have been made available for the purchase of all the additional apparatus needed for the very attractive , modern courses . |
| 7 | It was but lately that realty had been made liable for the debts of its deceased owner . |
| 8 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 9 | The bar fire had been lit ready for the customers . |
| 10 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 11 | I have been doing this for the past 15 years . |
| 12 | They 've been threatening that for the last fifteen minutes or so . |
| 13 | But leading scorer Ferdinand , who 'd set up the only goal for Andy Impey , has been passed fit for the Stamford Bridge derby . |
| 14 | Despite the decline in its popularity , homoeopathy has not been standing still for the entire twentieth century . |
| 15 | Moulvi ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered by the Muslims ' breaking open the doors of the mosque , which had been kept locked for the last few months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 16 | As we were paying our visit at the end of the morning , he may have been dressed ready for the office . |
| 17 | A minute earlier he had been feeling sorry for the men who were still out on house-to-house questioning . |
| 18 | He had been held scoreless for the first twenty-five minutes of the game but certainly went to town afterwards ! |
| 19 | Zhu was reportedly dismissed because of his links with liberal policies , and might have been held responsible for the participation of union members in the pro-democracy protests of May and June . |
| 20 | The Gang , headed by Mao 's wife Jiang Qing , had been held responsible for the excesses of China 's 1966-76 Cultural Revolution . |