Example sentences of "been [adv] [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Committee drew attention to the fact that during the experiment fewer Members had been formally penalised for bad behaviour than in several recent sessions , and reported that neither the Speaker nor the Community had any evidence that rowdiness had significantly increased ; on the possible long-term effect , early evidence was ‘ mildly encouraging ’ . |
| 32 | Access to further and higher education has been unduly restricted for handicapped children and this should be improved . |
| 33 | Such group-frequency correlations have been extensively developed for organic compounds , and similar correlations can be drawn up for inorganic species [ 19 ] . |
| 34 | It has been extensively investigated for large mammals ( Brain , 1958 , 1974 , 1981 ; Voorhies , 1969 ; Sutcliff , 1970 ; Behrensmeyer , 1975 ; Klein , 1975 ; Hill , 1975 ; Shipman , 1977 , 1983a ; Behrensmeyer & Hill , 1980 ; Binford , 1981 ) , but little work has been done on small mammals . |
| 35 | Each page has been carefully planned for easy use . |
| 36 | The extent of these learning skills has been ingeniously studied for individual bees by Randolf Menzel in Berlin over the past two decades , and he has been able to clarify the role of many regions of the bee 's head ganglion . |
| 37 | The Teds took their name from the ‘ Edwardian ’ dress-style which had been originally promoted for fashion-conscious city gents who wished to cut an affluent fifties dash . |
| 38 | The date of the next reunion dinner has been provisionally fixed for 20 July 1991 . |
| 39 | The much-delayed Saarc summit has been provisionally arranged for early next March in Colombo . |
| 40 | Because of this , the tobacco industry has been legally obliged for some years now to print health warnings on packets . |
| 41 | In contrast with the differences in adhesins and hydrophobicity , the mucosal isolates from colitic patients were more commonly β-haemolytic than were isolates from non-inflammatory bowel disease controls , as has been well documented for faecal isolates from colitics and also for Crohn 's disease . |
| 42 | I suppose , after all , I 've had it since ‘ 66 , so I 've been well known for 26 years , which is a long time , and I do n't get anything much out of it any more . ’ |
| 43 | The advent of commercial and domestic freezing equipment means that what we eat is no longer limited by the time of year — although whether you consider the flavour of food which has been deep frozen for any length of time to be as good is another matter . |
| 44 | Although no one had been hanged in Ireland since 1954 and capital punishment had been abolished for most categories of murder in 1964 [ see p. 19227 ] , it had been nominally retained for those categories specified above . |
| 45 | The Darlington to Hartlepool service whose direct link ends in May has been particularly criticised for reduced frequencies , later first trains and early finishing last trains . |
| 46 | Government approval has been increasingly required for minor projects , which normally can not generate income . |
| 47 | This company , in turn , departed , and by the 1970s , Millbottom had been partially converted for domestic use . |
| 48 | BUILDINGS Theft or attempted theft covered except when the home has been insufficiently furnished for full habitation or unoccupied for over 30 days . |
| 49 | 4*/5* MAXPLAN Theft or attempted theft covered except when the home has CONTENTS been insufficiently furnished for full habitation or unoccupied for over 30 days . |
| 50 | 2*/3* CONTENTS been insufficiently furnished for full habitation or unoccupied for over 30 days . |
| 51 | Under both Buildings and Contents sections , if the home has been insufficiently furnished for full habitation or unoccupied for a period in excess of 30 days , then there is no cover for vandalism or acts of malicious persons . |
| 52 | Under both Buildings and Contents sections , if the home has been insufficiently furnished for full habitation or unoccupied for a period in excess of 30 days , there is no cover for bursting , leaking or overflowing , etc . |
| 53 | Under both Buildings and Contents sections , if the home has been insufficiently furnished for full habitation or unoccupied for a period in excess of 30 days , there is no cover for leakage of oil . |
| 54 | She studied law , was called to the Bar in 1974 , and — falling within the top 5 per cent of all people who have ever been psychometrically tested for verbal critical reasoning skills — would have made a marvellous lawyer . |
| 55 | She was sure he would run for it : she had been fully prepared for that . |
| 56 | He had been fully retired for three years and happily occupied with reading and local committee work before Pat retired as home help supervisor for a London borough . |
| 57 | ( This had , however , not been fully enforced for some years , and it was estimated that around 15,000 abortions were performed annually in Belgium . ) |
| 58 | If you have been validly dismissed for gross misconduct , you can not add the statutory minimum notice period to your period of service . |
| 59 | The plutonium , the first of an estimated 30-40 tonnes processed in Europe from spent Japanese uranium fuel , had been officially designated for commercial use to fire a new generation of Japanese fast-breeder reactors . |
| 60 | Balboa might find it amusing : nearly five centuries later , the land he crossed in the sixteenth century on foot has still not been completely bridged for those crossing it by car . |