Example sentences of "been [verb] for the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |
| 2 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
| 3 | Three Samoans who played in the World Cup — Tagaloa , Bunce and Steve Bachop — have just been picked for the All Black trials . |
| 4 | To this extent we could say that the cultural materialists re-assert a form of reflection theory , where history has become a mirror in which contemporary political priorities have been substituted for the former certain ground of Marxist analysis . |
| 5 | But he stressed that no formal approach had been made for the former football ground . |
| 6 | Thornton had been pushing for the same sort of readership , and the two men had another thing in common — they wanted action . |
| 7 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 8 | Where employees are concerned , a minimum of 2,000 has been used for the same reason . |
| 9 | Here 's another new model from guy who has been riding for the same big-time company for literally eons . |
| 10 | Inexplicably , two compulsory first-year lectures had been scheduled for the same day and time , and the error had only just been noticed . |
| 11 | Armenia 's nuclear power station was closed in February 1989 because of earthquake fears , while construction of nuclear plants in Krasnodar and the Crimea had been terminated for the same reason , after popular protests and construction of several reactors of the Chernobyl type had also been halted . |
| 12 | Even more important was that the jungle habitat had been protected for the same reason . |
| 13 | With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) . |
| 14 | He believed Everett had been murdered for the same reason Cunningham did . |
| 15 | Meanwhile a memorial service has been held for the former cabinet minister and Cotswolds MP Nicholas Ridley . |