Example sentences of "been [vb pp] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is doubtful whether these palls would have been considered for outdoor use , their materials being too precious to risk inclement weather and inconsiderate birds . |
| 32 | It is difficult to understand why Mark 's action was not brought to the attention of the authorities then , because his action as the captain of the aircraft dwells within many heroic and desperate actions that under normal circumstances would have been considered for high award . |
| 33 | Lake St Lucia and its wetland fringes , on the Indian Ocean coast of Natal , South Africa , has been targeted for open-strip titanium mining by Richards Bay Minerals , a 50 per cent owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto Zinc . |
| 34 | The dual moulded handles have been designed for easy carrying , interlocking for a secure grip . |
| 35 | The first generation of Compton FELs ( 1975–85 ) was built around available electron accelerators , most of which had been designed for nuclear physics and were therefore not optimised as FEL injectors . |
| 36 | The kitchens appeared to have been designed for human use , judging from the height of the working surfaces and the sheer size of the ladles , pots and pans and other pieces of equipment . |
| 37 | None of these lists , however , is wholly useful for the study of urban deaf populations , as all three have been designed for anthropological study of one sort or another , and include words such as spear and dung . |
| 38 | The hardwearing rubber outsole has been designed for hard court play . |
| 39 | Thus if the 1976 Bill had gone through as introduced , railway and airline employees would have been treated as receiving benefits in kind from concessionary travel equal to the open market cost of tickets and schoolmasters would have been taxed for concessionary education on the amount of the normal school fees . |
| 40 | To date , £700 in sponsorship money has been collected for Cystic Fibrosis . |
| 41 | Had he not opened his mouth , he would have been done for dumb insolence . |
| 42 | In the past eight years , some 5,400 police officers have been freed for operational policing duties by civilianising posts which do not require the powers or skills of a police officer , representing an efficiency gain of around £100 million per year . |
| 43 | Agency heads have been instructed to work within existing budgets and no extra funds have been granted for energy-saving equipment and renovation . |
| 44 | The chairman of the action group has already met with Malcolm Rifkind , Secretary of State for Scotland , pamphlets have been issued to all houses in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains , another public meeting will be called and a plea has been made for wholehearted support by writing letters of objection . |
| 45 | An allowance has been made for extra labour . |
| 46 | Commodore G. Paul , plans of the drainage under the green had been made for future reference . |
| 47 | Special provision has been made for handicapped access , and in addition the museum now boasts an auditorium , and greater accessibility to the reserve collections . |
| 48 | Experimental tests of the Hashin-Shtrikman and Hill-Walpole bounds , which lie , of course , within the Voigt and Reuss bounds do not appear to have been made for single polymer systems but , as discussed later in this chapter , they have been applied to a styrene-butadiene-styrene system and to a composite of glass beads and epoxy resin ( Arridge & Crowson 1979 ) . |
| 49 | The same case has been made for social work . |
| 50 | But this only confirmed the importance of AFHQ 's view , reflecting that of Churchill , that nothing should be done to provoke the Yugoslavs or exacerbate the tense situation until all military preparations had been made for full-scale action if necessary . |
| 51 | A case has been made for brief admission of patients who may not be suffering from psychiatric disorders , but who are in a state of particularly severe crisis . |
| 52 | Finally , suggestions have been made for improving ward learning by the introduction of a planned programme . |
| 53 | Imaginative provision has been made for wheelchair-bound bird watchers at the Rutland Water Nature Reserve . |
| 54 | The Red Cross primarily visits those inmates who are former National Guardsmen or who have been sentenced for counter-revolutionary activity . |
| 55 | The sixth round Stamford Bridge tie has been selected for live showing by BSkyB on March 9 ( 7.45 ) . |
| 56 | Since they have been selected for fast growth , these birds are only seven or eight weeks old when they are transported — really just overgrown chicks . |
| 57 | Two key areas have been selected for initial study , the office of Chairman and Managing Director and that of the Finance Controller . |
| 58 | If these ten poorest readers had been selected for remedial teaching during the six-month period a ( probably ) spurious improvement in spelling would be inferred . |
| 59 | Their natural opponents , who had often been lashed for undue subservience to clerical domination , joyfully pointed this out : ‘ It is one of the ironies on English political life ’ declared The Tablet , the leading Roman Catholic weekly , ‘ that people who , when they are thinking of lies , are never tired of denouncing the influence of the clergy in politics , at the same time are quite ready to give up their political consciences to the keeping of their ministers . ’ |
| 60 | London 's Victorian railway stations have been at the centre of the , now declining , spate of property development in the capital , as conveniently located derelict land and industrial/warehouse buildings have been exploited for new office accommodation . |