Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On each occasion , every available manservant had been posted to keep watch for soldiers , and she knew that if ever there was a night Tristram should not come visiting , this was it . |
| 2 | Roman hair had been plaited to make hair for these gods . |
| 3 | Nearby a huge waterwheel has been developed to generate power for a special lift for less able visitors , providing access to the top of the falls . |
| 4 | Over the last 20 years or so a large theoretical literature has been developed to provide tools for the solution of many problems associated with emergency planning ( Kolesar 1981 ) . |
| 5 | Here it ran between quiet green glades , the remnant of an oak wood which had been stripped to build ships for the navy and then , in a last plundering , to make charcoal for the insatiable furnaces and foundries down at Carron forge . |
| 6 | Come the next time that sector is needed — assuming it has n't been discarded to make way for more recent data — it 's pulled straight out of RAM rather than through the comparatively slow disk system . |
| 7 | The previous occupant had been a Swiss merchant who had been evicted to make way for the English milord and his lady , and Jane had a suspicion that the Swiss , like all foreigners , harboured strange and filthy diseases . |
| 8 | He said 19 people have been committed to stand trial for various offences . |
| 9 | This degree course has been designed to provide opportunities for advanced study in key areas of Spanish , Spanish-American and Portuguese literature and culture . |
| 10 | The event has been organised to raise money for new equipment and starts at 7.30pm in the community centre . |
| 11 | It 's been done to make room for the Motorola Inc 88110 Mbus input/output interface and increased cache . |
| 12 | Attempts have been made to offer formulae for determining the ratio decidendi of cases , but few have proved to be really satisfactory . |
| 13 | No attempt has been made to establish criteria for distinguishing those cases where applicants might reasonably be expected to represent themselves from those where representation either by specialist lay adviser or by lawyer is appropriate . |
| 14 | Only in the last few years have real efforts been made to equalize provision for different groups of the disabled and there is still a long way to go before we can claim to have adequate social security in this area . |
| 15 | Brandon J. noted that Mareva injunctions had been made to provide security for the payment of any award which the plaintiff might obtain in the arbitration , and he saw ‘ no good reason ’ against this practice . |
| 16 | The family 's solicitor Rex Makin said : ‘ I have been instructed to start proceedings for compensation . ’ |
| 17 | Town Hall chiefs have sealed off the area , and consultants have been commissioned to submit proposals for an investigation of the towpath wall from Sankey Bridges to Fiddlers Ferry Yacht Haven . |
| 18 | The centre has been opened to provide facilities for third parties to validate and convert their software for a number of different multivendor systems , including 27 types of workstation — DS/90 series , the S Family bought OEM from Sun Microsystems Inc , Fujitsu 's proprietary A series , the FM G series personal computers , as well as Hewlett-Packard Co Apollo , IBM RS/6000 , and Sony News , a number of different personal computers including Apple Computer Inc Macintosh and NEC Corp machines , and various local and wide area network software . |
| 19 | He had been told to take photographs for the magazine , not to give to Ana . |
| 20 | Delaney had been told to hold Titron for forty-eight hours . |
| 21 | Neither have they been told to test prisoners for drugs . |
| 22 | This has now been demolished to make way for new houses . |
| 23 | Many of the larger houses have been demolished to make way for more modern houses and bungalows . |
| 24 | An early fourth-century building had been demolished to make way for the wall , thus providing an approximate date for its construction . |
| 25 | A whole street of houses had been demolished to make way for the edifice looming above her , Isabel vaguely recalled hearing . |
| 26 | Antibiotics have been used to treat acne for over 30 years and are still widely prescribed . |
| 27 | Elective 4 has again been used to map countries for which no data are available . |
| 28 | Poisonous beads , used to make hundreds of necklaces sold through charity shops , have also been used to decorate covers for food and drink . |
| 29 | The head of the seventh UN nuclear inspection team which visited Iraq on Oct. 11-22 [ see p. 38548 ] , Demetrios Perricos , announced in Manama , Bahrain , on Nov. 18 that UN inspectors had destroyed most of the equipment known to have been used to enrich uranium for Iraq 's nuclear weapons programme . |
| 30 | From the 1850s the sanitary principle had been used to justify demands for state intervention regulating sexual disease and immorality . |