Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can see that some more lines have been filled in automatically for you . |
| 2 | Two dates have been arranged so far for climbers who wish to obtain a pass to Range West . |
| 3 | Sally went , relieved at not having had her love bite spotted but filled with indignation at having been blamed so unjustly for the Gran Bristow episode . |
| 4 | We know , do n't we , that Lamb has n't been fined so heavily for breaching a harsh contract . |
| 5 | His home in Majorca had been built not only for his own retirement but as somewhere to provide temporary refuge for disadvantaged children . |
| 6 | An application has been made once more for July 13 and 14 , but the key factor is the meeting at Killarney which normally clashes with the Maze festival . |
| 7 | The requests have always been turned down usually for financial reasons . |
| 8 | Had it been grown there expressly for the purpose of alluring cattle to their destruction , the defendant would have been liable , not on the grounds of Rylands v. Fletcher , but because he would have been in the position of one who deliberately sets traps baited with flesh in order to attract and catch dogs which are otherwise not trespassing at all . |
| 9 | So , I have told him before because he has been told off before for talking you know at the back |
| 10 | Audio recordings have been used very successfully for this purpose . |
| 11 | In the social sciences at large the word has often been used very loosely for any approach which applies scientific method to human affairs , conceived of as part of the natural order . |
| 12 | This stick had been used so often for beating me that it was now quite smooth . |
| 13 | A team of Education Ministers will have been locked up together for days or even weeks on end to thrash out the details of the Bill . |
| 14 | As a career move , it was a disaster : for the past 300 years , he has been remembered almost solely for having been the butt of some of Dryden 's most swingeing satirical couplets . |
| 15 | As part of the Initiative , datasets derived from the Census are being held at Manchester Computing Centre and the Census Dissemination Unit has been set up initially for the period from 1992 to 1997 to support them ; the Census Microdata Unit has also been set up in the Econometrics department of Manchester University . |
| 16 | All recent committees of inquiry , and some in the past , have been set up specifically for the task in hand , but between 1944 and 1967 many of the inquiries were undertaken by the Central Advisory Councils for Education ( CACE ) for England and for Wales , bodies set up under the 1944 Education Act to advise ministers on important educational issues . |
| 17 | The pupils thought he 'd been brought in specially for their benefit and turned up the next week with more surrealistic pieces . |
| 18 | In divertissements , although it is possible that they reflected the spectacle in some way when dances were characterized , large-scale key-changes seem to have been brought in mainly for the sake of musical variety . |
| 19 | Because comprehensive education has been introduced too recently for its effects to show up clearly in his Anglo-Welsh sample of boys born in 1960–65 , Heath 's conclusions are in their view simply premature . |
| 20 | Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , they have been cooped up here for some time , ’ Ana pointed out . |
| 22 | HAD anyone suggested back in December that Scotland would be in a position to win the Triple Crown by the last match of 1993 , just after the A XV had played Italy , they would probably have been led quietly away for a mental examination . |
| 23 | The banner has been printed separately above for you to cut out and add to your own Steam Tank . |
| 24 | She had n't known what it meant then , but now she knew it had been inscribed there just for her . |
| 25 | It 's these unexploded shells , quite a number littered about and we have n't been allowed down there for so long , it 's all barbed wire , I believe . |
| 26 | TANK GIRL is now going the way of all great cult heroes , having been fought over hard for a film by Hollywood . |
| 27 | specialist , and ( 2 ) the conceptual relationship between movement and drama had never been worked out sufficiently for the practical relationship to become clear . |
| 28 | It had been taken along here for 30 fathoms and stopped at a fault beyond which the vein had been lost . |
| 29 | By 1988 licences for gold prospecting had been issued not only for Connemara but also in counties Cavan , Kerry , Monaghan , Tipperary and Wicklow . |
| 30 | Social class is not the only speaker variable which presents problems of definition and interpretation , but it has been singled out here for detailed discussion for two reasons . |