Example sentences of "been [adv] [vb pp] for a " in BNC.

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1 The inverted-U relationship has been empirically demonstrated for a number of different tasks ( e.g. Courts , 1942 ; Stennett , 1957 ; Bolanger & Feldman , described in Malmo 1959 ) , however , it is often regarded as a purely descriptive relationship rather than necessarily implying that arousal per se is affecting performance .
2 In Rotherham , ‘ [ t ] he specific grant has been successfully obtained for a list of improvements which includes : implementing a joint care programme approach to planning and providing services to users ’ , while in Bradford the demands of care programming and care management led to considerable investment in Information Technology :
3 Collocations ( and the concordances from which they are derived ) have been successfully used for a variety of linguistic purposes .
4 This version has been slightly customized for a British audience .
5 The man chosen by Nero for the new advance was Quintus Veranius , who had been carefully selected for a senatorial career from an early age , and had distinguished himself as governor in Pamphylia , which is now in Turkey .
6 Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come .
7 The view that aggression is an integral part of human nature has been strongly argued for a long time by exceptionally articulate and persuasive individuals .
8 The great advantage of having a fixed date er for these European elections on the ninth of June , a date that 's been well known for a considerable time now , should be the certainty for the electorate , that they know not only the date of that election but the geographical boundary er of the constituency in which they live er the candidates that they can choose from and of course in relation to European elections , the number of er members of the European parliament that there will be representing the United Kingdom .
9 Long before this , however , the groundwork has been well laid for a sense of personal autonomy that is not in conflict with attitudes of dependency ( since assistance is simply to be expected and does not , as we have seen , entail subordination ) and that persists throughout life .
10 Sch 2 provides that an employee who has been continuously employed for a period of not less than two years shall have , as at present , the right to postpone her return to work for up to 29 weeks — with the possibility of an extension of four weeks if there is incapacity and medical evidence .
11 ‘ We 've been completely ignored for a long time , which has been a pretty good thing because it 's given us time to develop , ’ beams Brett .
12 But the Law Lords , applying European law , ruled that liability for a dismissal by a seller before a business transfer passes to the purchaser if the employee has been unfairly dismissed for a reason connected with the transfer .
13 Mark McNally followed for bringing down Kiwomya in full flight and then Slater left referee Morrison no option after tripping Wieghorst , having been previously warned for a similar offence .
14 Mark McNally followed for bringing down Kiwomya in full flight and then Slater left referee Morrison no option after tripping Wieghorst , having been previously warned for a similar offence .
15 Reading schemes have been heavily criticized for a range of reasons .
16 I express my sympathy , along with that of my two parliamentary colleagues who are at funerals in Northern Ireland , for the families of those who have been killed and send our sincere wishes to those who have been seriously injured for a speedy and full recovery .
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